Augsburg

**Augsburg** () is a ceity in the sooth-wast o Bavarie, Germany. It wis a Free Imperial Ceity for ower 500 years.

It is a varsity toun an hame o the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben an the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is a urban destrict an hame tae the institutions o the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-lairgest ceity in Bavarie (efter Munich an Nuremberg) wi a population exceedin 280,000 ceitizens. Efter Neuss an Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third auldest ceity, bein foondit bi the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum.

Augsburg is the anerly German ceity wi its awn legal holiday, the *[[:de:Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest|Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest]]*, celebratit on August 8 o ivery year. This gies Augsburg mair legal holidays than ony ither region or ceity in Germany.

Augsburg wis the hame o twa patrician faimilies that rose tae great prominence internaitionally an aw, replacin the Medicis as Europe's leadin bankers, the Fugger an the Welser faimilies.

### Municipality

Frae 1266 till 1548, the terms *Stadtpfleger* (heid o toun cooncil) an *[[Mayor]]* wur uised interchyngeably, or occasionally, simultaneously.
In 1548 the title wis feenally fixed tae *Stadtpfleger*, who officiatit for several years an wis then awairdit the title for life (tho nae langer govrenin), sicweys resultin ramfeesely, in records o twa or mair simultaneous *Stadtpfleger*.

Efter the transfer tae Bavarie in 1806, Augsburg wis ruled bi a Magistrate wi twa mayors, supportit bi a addeetional cooncil o "Commonty Commissioners": the *Gemeindebevollmächtige*.

As o 1907, the Mayor wis entitled Oberbürgermeister, as Augsburg haed reached a population of 100,000, as per the Bavarie Gemeindeordnung.

### Toun Cooncil

1 Local elections on 2 Mairch 2008 &nbsp; &nbsp; 22008: Die Linke &nbsp; &nbsp; 3 Pro Augsburg: 6, Freie Wähler: 1

### Members o the Bundestag
Augsburg is locatit in the *Wahlkreis 253 Augsburg-Stadt* constituency, which includes Königsbrunn an the Destrict o Augsburg (Landkreis Augsburg).

Christian Ruck o the CSU wis directly electit tae the Bundestag wi 49.2% o the vote in the 16t German Bundestag.

Indirectly electit tae the Bundestag tae adhere tae the Landesliste wur Miriam Gruß for the FDP, Heinz Paula for the SPD an Claudia Roth for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.

## Main sichts

* Toun Haw, biggit in 1620 in Renaissance style wi the Goldener Saal
* Perlachturm, a bell touer biggit in 989
* *[[Fuggerei]]* (see abuin)
* Fugger Palaces, restored renaissance palatial hames o the Fugger bankin faimily
* Bishop's Residence, biggit aboot 1750 in order tae replace the aulder bishop's palace; the day the administrative seat of Swabia
* Cathedral, foondit in the 9t century
* St. Anne's Church
* Augsburg Synagogue, ane of the few German synagogues tae survive the war, nou beautifully restored and open wi a Jewish museum inside
* Schaezlerpalais, a Rococo mansion (1765) nou housing a major art museum
* St. Ulrich and St. Afra—ane kirk is Roman Catholic, the ither Lutheran, the duality bein a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 atween Catholics and Protestants
* Mozart Haus Augsburg (whaur composer's faither Leopold Mozart wis born and Mozart visited it several times)
* Augsburger Puppenkiste, a puppet theatre
* Luther Stiege, museum locatit in a kirk, 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
* 3 magnificent baroque fountains, the Agustus Fountain, Mercury Fountain and Hercules Fountain
* Walter Art Museum at the "Glas-Palace"
* Roman Museum locatit in the umwhile Monastery of St. Margaret (closed at the moment due tae risk of collapsing)
* Medieval canals, nou uised for white-watter kayak racing

## Incorporations

## Historical population development

¹ Census result

## Pairtner ceities
*  Innerness, Unitit Kinrick, syne 1956
*  Amagasaki, Japan, syne 1959
*  Nagahama, Japan, syne 1959
*  Bourges, Fraunce, syne 1963
*  Dayton, Ohio, Unitit States, syne 1964
*  Liberec, Czech Republic, syne 2001
*  Jinan, Cheenae, syne 2004

Information on the pairtner ceities can foond at www.augsburg.de  an aw

## Transport

### Roads
The main road link is autobahn A 8 atween Munich an Stuttgart.

#### Public transport
Public transport is vera well catered for. It is controlled bi the Augsburger Verkehrsverbund (Augsburg transport union, AVV) extendit ower central Swabie. Thare are seiven rail Regionalbahn lines, five tram lines, 27 ceity bus lines an sax nicht bus lines, as well as, several taxi companies.

The Augsburg tramwey netwirk is nou 35.5&nbsp;km-lang efter the openin o new lines tae the varsity in 1996, the northren ceity boondar in 2001 an tae the Klinikum Augsburg (Augsburg hospital) in 2002. Tram line 6, which runs 5.2&nbsp;km frae Friedberg West tae Rotes Tor, opened in Dizember 2010.

#### Rail services

Augsburg haes sax stations, the Central Station (*Hauptbahnhof*), Hochzoll, Oberhausen, Morellstraße and *Messe*. The Central Station, biggit frae 1843 tae 1846, is Germany’s auldest main station in a lairge ceity still providin services in the oreeginal building. It is currently bein modernized and an underground tram station is biggit underneath it. Hauptbahnhof is on the Munich–Augsburg and Ulm–Augsburg lines and is connected bi ICE and IC services tae Munich, Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. As of December 2007, the French TGV connected Augsburg wi a direct High Speed Connection tae Paris. In addition EC and nicht train services connect tae Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna and connections will be substantially improved bi the creation of the planned Magistrale for Europe.

The AVV operates seiven Regionalbahn lines frae the main station tae:
* Mammendorf
* Schmiechen (direction tae Ammersee
* Aichach/Radersdorf
* Meitingen/Donauwörth
* Dinkelscherben
* Schwabmünchen
* Klosterlechfeld
Stairtin in 2008, the regional services are planned tae be altered tae S-Bahn frequencies an developit lang term as integratit intae the Augsburg S-Bahn.

### Air transport
Till 2005 Augsburg wis servit bi nearbi Augsburg Airport (AGB). In that year aw air passenger transport haes been relocatit tae Munich Airport. Syne then the Airport anerly serves for General aviation an business aviation.

## Economy

Augsburg is a vibrant industrial ceity. Mony global mercat leaders namely MAN, EADS or KUKA produce heich technology products lik printin seestems, lairge diesel ingines, industrial robots or components for the Airbus A380 an the Ariane carrier rocket. Efter Munich, Augsburg is considered the heich-tech centre for Information an Communication in Bavarie an taks advantage o its lawer operatin costs, yet close proximity tae Munich an potential customers.

### Major companies
* Boewe Systec
* EADS
* Faurecia
* Fujitsu Technology Solutions
* KUKA Robotics / seestems
* MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg)
* manroland
* MT-Aerospace (umwhile *MAN Technologie*)
* NCR
* Osram
* Premium AEROTEC
* Siemens
* UPM-Kymmene (umwhile Haindl)
* Verlagsgruppe Weltbild
* WashTec (umwhile Kleindienst)
* synlab Group
* Amazon
* Cancom

## Eddication
Augsburg is hame tae the follaein varsities an colleges:

* Varsity o Augsburg, foondit in 1970
* Hochschule Augsburg (Varsity o Applee'd Sciences, umwhile Fachhochschule Augsburg)

## Media
The local newspaper is the *[[Augsburger Allgemeine]]* first published in 1807. Thare are aseveral local radio stations an a local TV station (a.tv) an aw.

## Notable fowk

*died 304 Saint Afra
*c.890–973 Saint Ulrich
*1070–1127 Saint Wolfhard
*1442–1528 Erhard Ratdolt Printer, famous for haein produced the first kent printers teep specimen beuk.
*1459–1525 Jakob Fugger Noted banker and financial broker. An area within the ceity, cried the Fuggerei wis set aside for the poor and needy. Foondit in 1519.
*1460–1524 Hans Holbein the Elder, a pioneer in the transformation of German art frae the Gothic tae the Renaissance style.
*1497–1543 Hans Holbein the Younger, portrait an releegious penter.
*1497-c.1574  Matthäus Schwarz, accoontant an author
*1517–1579 Paulus Hector Mair, mairtial airtist.
*1573–1646 Elias Holl, airchitect
*1580–1627 Julius Schiller, lawyer an astronomer.
*1704–1767 Johann Jakob Haid, engraver
*1719–1787 Leopold Mozart, violinist-componer an faither o Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
*1740–1786 Christoph Christian Sturm, German preacher an author.
*1873-1964 Hans von Euler-Chelpin, co-recipient o 1929 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
*1887–1943 Julius Schaxel, biologist.
*1858–1913 Rudolf Diesel, inventor o the diesel ingine.
*1898–1956 Bertolt Brecht, famous German writer.
*1920–2011 Mietek Pemper, compiled an teepit Oskar Schindler's leet, which savit 1,200 Jewish preesoners frae the Holocaust.
*1933–2011 Ulrich Biesinger, a umwhile German fitbawer, pairt o the team that wan the 1954 FIFA Warld Cup.
*1939–2012 Helmut Haller, a fitbawer who representit Wast Germany at three Warld Cups.
*1948 Wolf Blitzer, jurnalist an CNN reporter
*1957 Bernhard Langer, famous profeesional gowfer.
*1959 Bernd Schuster, a German fitbaa coach an umwhile player.
*1961 Armin Veh, a German fitbaa coach.
*1962 Josef Priller, Luftwaffe Ace
*1980 Benny Greb, a German solo drum airtist.
*1983 Philipp Kohlschreiber, a German tennis player.
*1985 Bianca Voitek, a German female bodybuilder.
*1985 Annina Braunmiller, a German vyce actress.
*1989 Johnny Cecotto, Jr., a German racin career.

## Sports

FC Augsburg is a fitbaa team based in Augsburg an plays in the SGL arena. FC Augsburg wis promotit tae Bundesliga in 2011. The new stadium (opened in Julie 2009) hostit gemmes o the 2011 FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup.

The ceity is hame tae a DEL (first-diveesion) ice hockey team, the Augsburger Panther. The oreeginal club, AEV, wis formit in 1878, the auldest German ice sport club an regularly draws aroond 4000 spectators, quite raisonable for German ice hockey. Hame gemmes are played at the Curt Frenzel Stadion: a recently rebuilt (2012-2013) indoor rink an modren stadium. An aw Augsburg is hame tae ane o the maist tradeetional German basebaw clubs, the Augsburg Gators.

For the 1972 Olympic Gemmes in Munich, a Lech River dam protective diversionary canal for river ice wis convertit intae the warld's first airtificial whitewatter slalom course: the Eiskanal an remains a warld-cless venue for whitewatter competeetion an servit as prototeep for twa dozen seemilar foreign courses.

## Local ceity elk-names
While commonly cried *Fuggerstadt* (Fuggers' ceity) due tae the Fuggers residin thare, athin Swabie it is aften referred tae as *Datschiburg* an aw: which oreeginatit sometime in the 19t century refers tae Augsburg's favorite sweet: the *Datschi* made frae fruit, preferably prunes, an thin cake daich. The *Datschiburger Kickers* charity fitbaa team (foondit in 1965) reflects this in its choice o team name.

## See an aw
* Leet o ceevic diveesions o Augsburg
* League of Augsburg
* Augsburg College, a private Lutheran College in the Unitit States that taks its name frae the Augsburg Confession
* Leet o mayors o Augsburg
* Rudolf Diesel, inventor o the Diesel ingine, who uised biodiesel an aw

## Notes

## References
* *Die Chroniken der schwäbischen Städte, Augsburg*, (Leipzig, 1865–1896).
* Werner, *Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg*, (Augsburg, 1900).
* Lewis, "The Roman Antiquities of Augsburg and Ratisbon", in volume xlviii, *Archæological Journal*, (Lunnon, 1891).

## Freemit airtins

* Stadt Augsburg  Offeecial steid (Inglis version)
* Augsburg Region Tourism
* Wohnungen Augsburg 
* Fotosafari Augsburg  A interactive set o picturs which allous ye tae splore Augsburg
*  Augsburg Ceity Plan
*  Destrict o Augsburg
*  http://www.augsburg.de/index.php?id=12352