Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany )

Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany )

Augsburg, Bavaria is one of Germany’s oldest cities. The varied architecture in its center includes medieval guild houses, the 11th-century St. Mary's cathedral and the onion-domed Sankt Ulrich und Afra abbey. Key Renaissance buildings are the Augsburger Town Hall with its Golden Hall. The Fuggerhaüser is the seat of a wealthy banking dynasty and the Fuggerei is a 16th-century social housing complex.

The largest city on the Romantic Road (and Bavaria's third largest), Augsburg is also one of Germany’s oldest, founded by the stepchildren of Roman emperor Augustus over 2000 years ago. As an independent city state from the 13th century, it was also one of its wealthiest, free to raise its own taxes, with public coffers bulging on the proceeds of the textile trade. Banking families such as the Fuggers and the Welsers even bankrolled entire countries and helped out the odd skint monarch. However, from the 16th century, religious strife and economic decline plagued the city. Augsburg finally joined the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806.

Shaped by Romans, medieval artisans, bankers, traders and, more recently, industry and technology, this attractive city of spires and cobbles is an easy day trip from Munich or an engaging stop on the Romantic Road, though one with a grittier, less quaint atmosphere than others along the route.

Augsburg lies at the convergence of the Alpine rivers Lech and Wertach and on the Singold. The oldest part of the city and the southern quarters are on the northern foothills of a high terrace, which emerged between the steep rim of the hills of Friedberg in the east and the high hills of the west. In the south extends the Lechfeld, an outwash plain of the post ice age between the rivers Lech and Wertach, where rare primeval landscapes were preserved. The Augsburg city forest and the Lech valley heaths today rank among the most species-rich middle European habitats.

Alot to see in Augsburg such as :

Town Hall, built in 1620 in Renaissance style with the Goldener Saal
Perlachturm, a bell tower built in 989
Fuggerei, the oldest social housing estate in the world, inhabited since 1523
Fugger Palaces, restored renaissance palatial homes of the Fugger banking family
Bishop's Residence, built about 1750 in order to replace the older bishop's palace; today the administrative seat of Swabia
Cathedral, founded in the 9th century
St. Anne's Church
Augsburg Synagogue, one of the few German synagogues to survive the war, now beautifully restored and open with a Jewish museum inside
Augsburg textile and industry museum-or just tim, organises it displays under headings Mensch-Maschine-Muster-Mode.
Schaezlerpalais, a Rococo mansion (1765) now housing a major art museum
St. Ulrich and St. Afra—one church is Roman Catholic, the other Lutheran, the duality being a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants
Mozart Haus Augsburg (where composer's father Leopold Mozart was born and Mozart visited it several times)
Augsburger Puppenkiste, a puppet theatre
Luther Stiege, museum located in a church, that shows Martin Luthers life and different rooms. (free admission)
Eiskanal, the world's first artificial whitewater course (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich Olympics)
Dorint Hotel Tower
Childhood home of Bertolt Brecht
The Augsburg Botanical Gardens (Botanischer Garten Augsburg)
Maximillian Museum
Bahnpark Augsburg home of 29 historic locomotives, blacksmith, historic roundhouse
3 magnificent renaissance fountains, the Agustus Fountain, Mercury Fountain and Hercules Fountain from 15th century, build for the 1500 anniversary of city foundation
Walter Art Museum at the "Glas-Palace"
Roman Museum located in the former Monastery of St. Margaret (closed at the moment due to risk of collapsing). Renovation is taking place and the museum is expected to reopen in 2017.
Medieval canals, used to run numerous industries, medieval arms production, silver art, sanitation and water pumping
Kulturhaus Abraxas

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