aviation pioneers, including the Dutch manufacturer Fokker. Visitors can see a radio room and go onto a viewing platform to watch aircraft landing and taking off. Dutch aircraft on show include the Spyker [...] aircraft in and around two hangers and a reconstruction of the first Schiphol airport terminal, built by Dutch Modernist architects in 1928 for the Amsterdam Olympics. Galleries show photographs, technical manuals
Alsdorf is mining community about 15 kilometres north of Aachen, near the Belgian and Dutch borders, in the former Aachen and South Limburg coalfield. The local mining activity lasted for about 150 years