Jülich

Jülich lies along the Rur River, where the level, fertile Jülich-Zülpicher Börde extends north of the Eifel. The town was reshaped after a devastating fire in 1547, when Duke William V commissioned the Italian architect Alessandro Pasqualini to plan a Renaissance residence and citadel. The Citadel of Jülich remains a major monument of that rebuilding, with bastions that represent an early phase of modern fortification design north of the Alps. Across the Rur, the former French bridgehead, begun in 1799, is now part of Brückenkopf-Park. Jülich also gives its name to Forschungszentrum Jülich, a major German research centre. Continue with other webcams from the Rur valley and North Rhine-Westphalia to see how this part of western Germany connects regionally.

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