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Pau (Aachen)

brook in Aachen, Germany

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ2058396 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pau (also: Paubach) is a small river of Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is 4.1 km long and flows into the Wurm as a left tributary.

History

The Johannisbach is one of the three historic streams of the medieval city of Aachen. The Johannisbach was used for the disposal of wastewater, while the Pau was diverted to serve as the source of fresh water. The Paunell was what remained in the former course of the diverted Pau.

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The public source identifies “Pau (Aachen)” as brook in Aachen, Germany. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Aachen, brook and Germany.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 77-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Aachen, brook and Germany providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pau (Aachen)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.