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Germany
Travel Guide
 Augsburg
is an independent city in the south-west of Bavaria.
The College town is home of
the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and also of the Bezirk Schwaben and the
Bezirk Augsburg. 1906 Augsburg became Großstadt and is nowadays with more
than 264,000 citizens the third-largest city in Bavaria. Only Munich and
Nuremberg are larger.
The
name of the city dated from the roman settlement Augusta Vindelicorum, it
was founded by the roman emperor Augustus 15 bc as castra. Therefore the
"Fuggerstadt" is the second oldest city in Germany after Trier.
Main
sights:
- The Town Hall, built in 1620 in Renaissance style
- Perlachturm, a bell tower built in 1182
- Fuggerei (see above)
- Bishop's Residence, built about 1750 in order to
replace the older bishop palace; today the administrative seat of
Swabia
- Cathedral, founded in the 9th century
- Augsburger Puppenkiste, a very famous marionette
theater
- Eiskanal, the world's first artificial whitewater
course (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich
Olympics).
- Dorint Hotel Tower
- Der Goldene Saal
- St. Ulrich and St. Afra— one church is Roman
Catholic, the other Lutheran, the duality a result of the Peace of
Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants
- Mozarthaus Augsburg (The composer's father,
Leopold Mozart was born there and Mozart visited on several
occasions)
- Childhood home of Bertolt Brecht
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