Übach-Palenberg, the town with the smallest area in the County of Heinsberg, was a mining community up to the 1960’s. Today the physical remnants of this past are symbols of the town’s transformation. The office building of the former Carolus-Magnus colliery has housed one of the region’s three technology and founders’ centres since 1996. The adjacent former colliery site, for many years a wasteland, has been developed into an architecturally striking commercial estate.
Today this town in the delightful countryside of the Wurm valley and with its impressive historical buildings forms a link between the County of Heinsberg and the northern Aachen region. This is evident both in the development of commerce and industry and in its function as a residential town.
There is a railway station in Palenberg that lies on the main Aachen-Düsseldorf line, and the town is connected to major roads via the B221.
