page_title: Augsburg
section_title: Main sights
hierarchical_section_title: Augsburg / Main sights
caption_attribution_description: Fuggerhäuser in Augsburg an der Maximilianstraße, Fuggerscher Stadtpalast
context_page_description: Augsburg is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It is a university town and regional seat of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, with 885,000 in its metropolitan area.
  After Neuss and Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third oldest city, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician Fugger and Welser families that dominated European banking in the 16th century. The city played a leading role in the Reformation as the site of the 1530 Augsburg Confession and 1555 Peace of Augsburg. The Fuggerei, the oldest social housing complex in the world, was founded in 1513 by Jakob Fugger.
  In 2019, UNESCO recognized the Water Management System of Augsburg as a World Heritage Site.
context_section_description: 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
  Fuggerhäuser (Fugger houses), 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, medieval church building that was originally part of a monastery built in 1321
  St. Mary's Syriac Orthodox Church on the Zusamstraße in Lechhausen, built 1998 by Suryoye (Assyrians)
  Augsburg Synagogue, one of the few German synagogues to survive the war, now 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
caption: Fugger's City Palace
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