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Explore interesting sights in Augsburg, Germany. Click on a marker on the map to view details about it. Underneath is an overview of the sights with images. A total of 69 sights are available in Augsburg, Germany.

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1. Schaezlerpalais

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The Schaezlerpalais is a baroque palace in Augsburg. The palace extends far back from the street, encompassing dozens of rooms, courtyards and gardens. The gilded mirrored ballroom was built between 1765-1770 and has survived intact. it is widely regarded as the most artistically significant Rococo ballroom in Germany. Carl Albert von Lespilliez was the architect of the Schaezlerpalais.

Wikipedia: Schaezlerpalais (EN), Website

2. Augsburg Synagogue

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The Augsburg Synagogue serves as a cultural center for the Jewish community in Augsburg. For example, the Jewish Community of Swabia-Augsburg celebrates Shabbat there every Friday evening and every Saturday morning. The synagogue was built between 1914 and 1917 according to the designs of the architects Fritz Landauer and Heinrich Lömpel in Halderstraße not far from Königsplatz. The synagogue in Augsburg was also affected by the Kristallnacht pogrom and the subsequent Allied air raids. It was not until 1963 that a small part of the synagogue could be used by the community again. Between 1974 and 1985, the synagogue was finally completely restored. Since its reopening in 1985, it has also housed the Jewish Museum Augsburg Schwaben. The synagogue can be visited as part of the museum visit.

Wikipedia: Synagoge (Augsburg) (DE)

3. Glaspalast

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Glaspalast

The Glass Palace is an industrial monument in Augsburg, which was put into operation in 1910 as the fourth and final expansion stage of the Mechanical Cotton Spinning and Weaving Mill Augsburg (SWA). It is located on Otto-Lindenmeyer-Strasse, named after SWA's first major company manager. Production ended in 1988 with the bankruptcy of the company. The building was temporarily owned by the city of Augsburg and was sold to Ignaz Walter in 1999. As a refinancing of the renovation, the demolition of the weaving shed halls of the factory was permitted. This new development area is now referred to as Aumühle, which means that the former factory name lives on.

Wikipedia: Glaspalast Augsburg (DE), Website

4. St. Leonhard Kapelle

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St. Leonhard Kapelle MartinHansV / CC BY 3.0

Bannacker is the southwesternmost district of the city of Augsburg. It originated from the hamlet of Bannacker, which belonged to the municipality of Bergheim, when the municipality of Bergheim became part of the city of Augsburg in 1972 in the course of its incorporation. The hamlet of Bannacker consisted of the Bannacker estate, owned by the Bertele family, and the estate of the Schäffler family, the so-called Jägersölde. Today, the district of Bannacker continues to consist of the so-called Bannacker manor house with the villa, the former Bertele estate and the Stochmayr house with the chapel and the Schaeffler estate.

Wikipedia: Augsburg-Bannacker (DE)

5. St. Anton

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St. Anton User:Monroe / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Anton in the Antonsviertel in Augsburg was consecrated on 26 May 1927 by Auxiliary Bishop Karl Reth. The church, a bare brick building with a two-tower façade, is located right next to the Wittelsbacher Park and stands out for its modern architecture and the unusual building material clinker. St. Anton is considered one of the most important religious buildings of the first half of the 20th century in Germany. The architect Michael Kurz even gained international attention for the construction. The building, which was undamaged during the Second World War, is now a listed building.

Wikipedia: St. Anton (Augsburg) (DE), Website

6. Kongress am Park

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Kongress am Park is an event venue in Augsburg, Germany. It is located in the northeastern area of Wittelsbacher Park in the Antonsviertel and was opened in 1972. The multifunctional venue is used as a congress centre, for sales exhibitions, as well as for concerts and other cultural events. Since 2009, the hall has been managed by Kongresshalle Augsburg Betriebs GmbH and marketed by Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH. The multi-part building complex is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments and is one of the "most important buildings of post-war modernism" in Augsburg.

Wikipedia: Kongress am Park (DE), Website

7. Leopold-Mozart-Haus

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The Leopold Mozart House Augsburg is a museum in Augsburg, Germany. It is housed in a 17th-century craftsman's house where Leopold Mozart, the father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, was born in 1719. Since 1937, the house has housed an exhibition and memorial on the history of the Mozart family in Augsburg. Until 2018, the museum was called "Mozarthaus Augsburg". After a renovation, it reopened in 2020 under a new name and with a completely new permanent exhibition. The building is three-storey and has a curved gable. In the 19th century, the house underwent changes. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Leopold-Mozart-Haus Augsburg (DE), Website

8. Erhard-Wunderlich-Sporthalle

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The Erhard-Wunderlich-Sporthalle is a multi-purpose hall in the Antonsviertel district of the Bavarian city of Augsburg. The listed building is located on the southern edge of Wittelsbacher Park and was built between 1963 and 1965 at a cost of around 3.95 million DM. It is the first large hall built in Augsburg after the Second World War. Since 2012, the former Augsburg sports hall has been officially named "Erhard-Wunderlich-Sporthalle" in honour of the Augsburg-born national handball player Erhard Wunderlich (1956–2012).

Wikipedia: Sporthalle Augsburg (DE), Website

9. Burggrafenturm

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The Burggrafenturm is a building in the former bishop's city of Augsburg, Germany. The episcopal city was built on the ruins of the Roman settlement and consisted of a castle-like complex with a cathedral, a courtyard and an episcopal palace. In the Burgrave's Tower, which was rebuilt in 1507 under Bishop Heinrich IV of Lichtenau, the Burgrave lived as the highest official of the castle town. However, the formerly important office was no longer mentioned in the imperial city court order of the 15th century.

Wikipedia: Burggrafenturm (Augsburg) (DE)

10. Naturmuseum

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The Augsburg Natural History Museum is operated by the city of Augsburg and is located in the "Augusta Arcaden" in the northern part of the old town. The focus of the exhibitions from the fields of geology, mineralogy, botany, zoology and palaeontology is the molasse, a layer of soil consisting of weathered debris that makes up the subsoil of a large part of the foothills of the Alps and southern Germany. The Augsburg Museum of Natural History is the only one in Germany that specialises in this area.

Wikipedia: Naturmuseum Augsburg (DE), Website

11. Wasserwerk am Hochablass

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The Wasserwerk am Hochablass, also known as the Wasserwerk am Neubach, is the first waterworks built in Augsburg for the pumping and treatment of drinking water. At that time, it formed the foundation stone for a modern, hygienic central drinking water supply in the Augsburg city area. After its closure in 2007, it served as a hydroelectric power plant for the Augsburg municipal utilities to generate electricity, a technology museum and an information centre for Augsburg's drinking water supply.

Wikipedia: Wasserwerk am Hochablass (DE), Website

12. Evangelische Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche

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The Evangelical Lutheran Holy Cross Church in Augsburg was created in the 16th century from the expansion of a former chapel. After the demolition of this church in 1630, the church was rebuilt from 1652 to 1653 in the style of an Evangelical Sermon Church of the Early Baroque and equipped with numerous baroque painters of significant painters in the following eight decades. It is the first Protestant church building of the city. As a monument, he is entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche (Augsburg) (DE), Website

13. Fronhof

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The Fronhof is a green area in the city centre of Augsburg. It is surrounded by the former Prince-Bishop residence, now the seat of the Government of Swabia. To the east is the Augsburg Cathedral, with the Domvorplatz and the Roman Wall. South, a row of houses borders – including the Burggrafenturm – and the Peutingerstraße on the Fronhof. The Fronhof as a green area is not to be confused with the Fronhof road, which is located a little further west of the courtyard garden.

Wikipedia: Fronhof (Augsburg) (DE)

14. Hochablass

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Hochablass Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH, Fotograf: Stadtwerke Augsburg / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The Hochablass is a weir in the Lech, which lies in the eastern part of Augsburg. The Hauptstadtbach branches off from the western part of the weir, which is led from here to Augsburg's old town, where it flows through the Lechviertel in many canals together with the water of the Lochbach. It is an important part of Augsburg's historic water management and was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List on 6 July 2019 as part of Augsburg's water management system.

Wikipedia: Hochablass (DE)

15. St. Peter und Paul

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The sacred building of St. Peter and Paul, belonging to the late High Baroque style, in which the Gothic church tower of the previous building was adopted, is a Roman Catholic parish church in the center of the Augsburg district of Inningen. It stands on a hill north of the old town centre. The church belongs to the parish community of Göggingen-Inningen. The church is protected as an architectural monument and registered with the number D-7-61-000-187.

Wikipedia: St. Petrus und Paulus (Augsburg-Inningen) (DE)

16. Fünfgratturm

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The Fünfgratturm is a fortified tower in Augsburg, Germany. It was built in 1454 as part of Augsburg's eastern city fortifications around the Jakobervorstadt. It has been isolated since the demolition of this part of the city wall in 1867/68. It was built especially for the so-called Scharwächter – patrols that ensured that the people of Augsburg could sleep peacefully. In 1948 and 1973/74 the tower was renovated. It is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Fünfgratturm (DE)

17. Synagoge Kriegshaber

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The Kriegshaber Synagogue is the oldest surviving synagogue in Bavarian Swabia. For almost three hundred years, it formed the center of the Jewish community in Kriegshaber, a formerly independent place at the gates of the free imperial city, today a district of Augsburg. The profaned house of worship is located at Ulmer Strasse 228 and has been a branch of the Jewish Cultural Museum Augsburg-Swabia since its renovation in 2011–2014.

Wikipedia: Synagoge Kriegshaber (DE)

18. Barfüßerkirche

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The Protestant barefoot church in the old town of Augsburg was built in the 13th century by the Franciscans (barefooters). After its extensive destruction in the Second World War, it was partially rebuilt in a simplified form. The towerless church building, which consists mainly of the former choir, stands out from the maze of narrow streets and simple gabled houses and appears straight and accurate in its austere form.

Wikipedia: Barfüßerkirche (Augsburg) (DE), Website

19. St. Ulrich

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The Protestant Church of St. Ulrich is a parish church in Augsburg, Germany, located next to the Catholic Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra. This ensemble of the two places of worship, which are very unequal in size and at right angles to each other, form a structural unit, is unique in its kind. The parish of the Protestant St. Ulrich's Church also includes the Holy Spirit Chapel in the Holy Spirit Hospital.

Wikipedia: Evangelische Ulrichskirche (Augsburg) (DE), Website

20. Fuggereimuseum

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The Fuggerei Museum deals with the history of the Augsburg Fuggerei. It was founded in 1957 and is located at Mittlerer Gasse 13 and 14. In addition to a permanent exhibition, it houses a historic museum apartment, which shows life and living in the Fuggerei at the time of the early 19th century, as well as a modern show apartment. Since 2008, a World War II bunker has also been attached to the museum.

Wikipedia: Fuggereimuseum (DE)

21. Rathaus

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Augsburg Town Hall is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most significant secular buildings of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It was designed and built by Elias Holl, Stadtbaumeister, in 1615–1624. Due to its historic and cultural importance, it is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.

Wikipedia: Augsburg Town Hall (EN)

22. Benediktinerabtei St. Stephan

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The monastery church of St. Stephen in Augsburg is a former ladies' collegiate church and today's Benedictine collegiate church. After being destroyed in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in a simplified form until 1966. As an architectural monument in the district of Bleich and Pfärrle, the church, which belongs to the monastery of St. Stephen, is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Stephan (Augsburg) (DE), Website

23. Katholische Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche

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Katholische Heilig-Kreuz-Kirche Alois Wüst / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Catholic Holy Cross Church is a Roman Catholic parish church in the southern German city of Augsburg, Bavaria. While its history dates back to 1143 when a hospice with a chapel was constructed on the site, the present church in the Gothic style was built by Provost Vitus Fackler in 1508. After bombing damage in the Second World War, rebuilding work was completed in 1949.

Wikipedia: Catholic Holy Cross Church, Augsburg (EN)

24. Färberturm

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Used in the 18th and 19th centuries by the guild of bleachers and dyers, the dyer's tower was used to hang out and dry dyed fabric panels. Such a testimony to the flourishing textile industry has been preserved in the textile city of Augsburg: a dyer's tower on the site of the former Augsburg worsted yarn spinning mill (AKS) has been placed under monument protection.

Wikipedia: Färberturm (DE)

25. Augsburg Cathedral

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The Cathedral of Augsburg is a Catholic cathedral in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, founded in the 11th century in Romanesque style, but with 14th-century Gothic additions. Together with the Basilica of St. Ulrich and Afra, it is one of the city's main attractions. It measures 113 x 40 m, and its towers are 62 m high. It is dedicated to the Visitation of Virgin Mary.

Wikipedia: Augsburg Cathedral (EN), Website

26. Stadtpflegeranger

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The Stadtpflegeranger is a small green space in the city center of Augsburg. It is located in the station district on the street Am Alten Einlass and, together with several surrounding historic buildings, forms an urban ensemble that is under ensemble protection. Of the green area laid out at the beginning of the 19th century, only a small part of it now remains.

Wikipedia: Stadtpflegeranger (DE)

27. St. Thomas

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St. Thomas is a Protestant church in the Bavarian city of Augsburg. It is located in the west of the city in the Kriegshaber district and was built in 1961 in the style of modernity. It is striking to be visible from afar and a unique round bell tower in Augsburg. The church and the connected, former community and rectory have been listed since 2003.

Wikipedia: St.-Thomas-Kirche (Augsburg) (DE), Website

28. Maximilianmuseum

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Maximilianmuseum The original uploader was Wolpertinger at German Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Maximilian Museum is a large, public museum housed in a palatial building erected in 1546 in Augsburg, Germany. It houses a notable collection of decorative arts. Augsburg was the leading German center of sculpture, painting, and, especially, of fine work in gold in silver from the late Middle Ages until the modern period.

Wikipedia: Maximilianmuseum (EN)

29. Herz Jesu

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The Catholic parish church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Pfersee-Süd district of Augsburg is the largest Art Nouveau church in southern Germany. In 1892 the church building association was founded, and in 1907 the foundation stone was laid. The church was consecrated on 29 May 1910 by Bishop Maximilian von Lingg.

Wikipedia: Herz-Jesu-Kirche (Augsburg) (DE)

30. St. Peter und Paul

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. Peter and Paul in the Augsburg district of Oberhausen is one of the oldest churches in Augsburg. After its destruction in the Second World War, it was rebuilt in a simplified form. The church is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Peter und Paul (Augsburg-Oberhausen) (DE)

31. Zeughaus

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Zeughaus Karlheinz Meyer / CC BY-SA 3.0

The armoury in the old town of Augsburg was built between 1602 and 1607 by Elias Holl. The designs for the façade – which, depending on the author, can be assigned either to the Renaissance or to the Baroque, but most accurately to the transitional style of Mannerism – were designed by Joseph Heintz.

Wikipedia: Augsburger Zeughaus (DE)

32. St. Gallus

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The Church of St. Gallus, also known as the Gallus Church, is a Romanesque building in Augsburg and probably the oldest surviving church in Augsburg. The church, which is also known as a chapel because of its small size, is an architectural monument that is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Gallus (Augsburg) (DE)

33. Kunstmuseum Walter

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The Kunstmuseum Walter is a privately run museum in Augsburg, Germany. It is located in the Glass Palace and shows modern and contemporary art. The owner of the collection and at the same time the namesake of the museum, which opened in 2002, is the building contractor Ignaz Walter, who died in 2023.

Wikipedia: Kunstmuseum Walter (DE), Website

34. Trinkbrunnen Senkelbach

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The fountain on Bourges-Platz in Augsburg was built around 1900 and is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian list of monuments. It is one of the last public drinking water fountains in the city from this time. Once upon a time, these cast-iron fountains were numerous in Augsburg.

Wikipedia: Brunnen am Bourges-Platz (DE)

35. TIM Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum

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TIM Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum

The Augsburg textile and industry museum, known by its acronym tim, is a museum in Augsburg a city in the south-west of Bavaria, Germany. It is situated in the Augsburger Kammgarnspinnerei, a former worsted spinning mill. The museum is an Anchor point on the European Route of Industrial Heritage.

Wikipedia: Augsburg textile and industry museum (EN), Website

36. Großer Wasserturm

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The water towers in Augsburg are monuments of Augsburg's historic water management. Of the surviving water towers in Augsburg, four have been part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site "Augsburg Water Management System" since 2019. One of them is considered to be the oldest water tower in Germany.

Wikipedia: Wassertürme (Augsburg) (DE)

37. Köpfhaus

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The Köpfhaus is a three-storey corner house in the city centre of Augsburg, which is a listed building. It is located at Fuggerplatz 9 and consists of various houses that have been united into one building over the centuries. The oldest parts of the head house date back to the 14th century.

Wikipedia: Köpfhaus (DE)

38. Kurhaus Göggingen

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Kurhaus Göggingen Reinhold Wimmer (info: S.wimmer) / CC BY-SA 2.5

The Kurhaustheater Göggingen, commonly called Kurhaus, was designed by architect Jean Keller on behalf of Hofrat Friedrich Hessing and built in Augsburg-Göggingen in 1885–1886. It is the only preserved multi-function theatre in glass and cast iron construction from the start-up period.

Wikipedia: Kurhaus Göggingen (DE)

39. Handwerkerbrunnen

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The craftsmen's fountain on Georg-Käß-Platz in Augsburg-Haunstetten was created by Christian Angerbauer in 1972, the year Haunstetten was incorporated into Augsburg. It forms the centre of a small green area that was created in 1971 by the demolition of a former blacksmith's estate.

Wikipedia: Handwerkerbrunnen (Haunstetten) (DE)

40. MAN-Museum

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The MAN Museum is a technology and transport museum in Augsburg and is supported and maintained by MAN SE, MAN Diesel & Turbo SE and manroland AG. Its 1,800 m² exhibition is dedicated to the history and technical developments of the group of companies, which originated here in 1840.

Wikipedia: MAN-Museum (DE), Website

41. Augsburger Kahnfahrt

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Augsburger Kahnfahrt Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH, Fotograf: Christine Pemsl / CC BY-SA 3.0 de

The Augsburger Kahnfahrt is a leisure facility with a restaurant and beer garden in Augsburg, Germany. The privately owned boat rental company has a tradition dating back to the 19th century and uses the water surfaces of the city moat in Augsburg's historic Jakobervorstadt district.

Wikipedia: Augsburger Kahnfahrt (DE), Website

42. Heilig-Geist-Kapelle

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The Holy Spirit Chapel in Augsburg is located in the Holy Spirit Hospital in Spitalgasse, right next to the upper fountain master's house near the Red Gate. It is also known as the hospital chapel. It is a listed building in the Augsburg-Lechviertel district, eastern Ulrichsviertel.

Wikipedia: Heilig-Geist-Kapelle (Augsburg) (DE), Url

43. Herkulesbrunnen

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The Hercules Fountain in Maximilianstraße is one of the three magnificent fountains in Augsburg, along with the Augustus Fountain and the Mercury Fountain. It was created in 1596–1600 by Adriaen de Vries in the Renaissance style. Its main character is the Greek demigod Hercules.

Wikipedia: Herkulesbrunnen (Augsburg) (DE)

44. St. Georg

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The Roman Catholic parish church of St. George is located in the north of Augsburg's old town, in the Lower Town in the Georgs and Kreuzviertel. It is the former collegiate church of the Augustinian monastery of St. George, which was dissolved during the secularization period.

Wikipedia: St. Georg (Augsburg) (DE)

45. St. Sebastian

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Until 2008, the monastery of St. Sebastian was a Capuchin monastery in Augsburg-Oberhausen on the right bank of the Wertach. It is surrounded on three sides by the factory premises of the mechanical engineering company MAN, and on the fourth side it borders Sebastianstraße.

Wikipedia: Kloster St. Sebastian (Augsburg) (DE)

46. Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia

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Jewish Museum Augsburg Swabia Alois Wüst / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Jewish Museum Augsburg Schwaben was opened in 1985 under the name "Jewish Culture Museum Augsburg-Schwaben". At that time it was the first independent Jewish museum in the Federal Republic of Germany. In November 2018 the renamed "Jewish Museum Augsburg Schwaben".

Wikipedia: Jüdisches Kulturmuseum Augsburg-Schwaben (DE), Website

47. Schloss Wellenburg

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Schloss Wellenburg

Wellenburg Castle, also known as Fugger Castle, located on a wooded spur of land high above the Wertach valley, is a neo-Gothic castle in the Augsburg-Bergheim district. It has been inhabited by the Fugger-Babenhausen family since 1595 and is not open to the public.

Wikipedia: Schloss Wellenburg (DE)

48. St. Martin

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St. Martin is a Roman Catholic parish church in the north of the Augsburg district of Oberhausen, Germany. It belongs to the Deanery of Augsburg II of the Diocese of Augsburg. The three-nave basilica with a recessed choir is protected as an architectural monument.

Wikipedia: St. Martin (Augsburg-Oberhausen) (DE)

49. Kleiner Goldener Saal

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Kleiner Goldener Saal Wahlunterricht Stadt- und Regionalgeschichte am Rudolf-Diesel-Gymnasium / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Small Golden Hall is a late Baroque ballroom of the former Augsburg Jesuit College St. Salvator, located at Jesuitengasse 12 north of the cathedral. The Small Golden Hall should not be confused with the Golden Hall in the town hall of the Fuggerstadt.

Wikipedia: Kleiner Goldener Saal (DE), Website

50. Jakobertor

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The 14th century Jakobertor is one of five still existing Augsburg city gates and forms the eastern end of the Jakoberstadt. It was originally part of the city wall. Only a small piece is reconstructed north of this, so that the gate is largely free.

Wikipedia: Jakobertor (DE)

51. Kulturhaus Kresslesmühle

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The Kulturhaus Kresslesmühle is a municipal cabaret theatre with an educational centre and gastronomy in Augsburg's Lechviertel. The building, which is registered as an architectural monument in the Bavarian Monument List, is a former water mill.

Wikipedia: Kulturhaus Kresslesmühle (DE), Facebook

52. St. Georg und Michael

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St. Georg and Michael is a Roman Catholic parish church in the centre of the Göggingen district of Augsburg. The church is protected as a monument and registered with number D-7-61-000-555. Neighboring is the Evangelical Church of the Trinity.

Wikipedia: St. Georg und Michael (DE)

53. Wertachbrucker Tor

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The Wertachbrucker Tor is located on the edge of Augsburg's old town and used to be part of the medieval city wall as a passageway. Today, it serves primarily as a representative building for the carpenters' guild as well as a venue for events.

Wikipedia: Wertachbrucker Tor (DE)

54. Georgsbrunnen

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Georgsbrunnen Peter Bubenik / CC BY-SA 3.0

The St. George's Fountain in Augsburg is dedicated to St. George. Like so many fountains in the city's history, it has changed its location many times. Since 1993, it has been located opposite the Stadtmetzg at the lower end of the Perlachberg.

Wikipedia: Georgsbrunnen (Augsburg) (DE)

55. Kapitulation

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The Augsburg Freedom Movement was a group of Augsburg citizens that formed in the last weeks of World War II. They achieved a non-violent, non-violent surrender of the city to the advancing U.S. troops without further casualties and war damage.

Wikipedia: Augsburger Freiheitsbewegung (DE)

56. Oberes Brunnenmeisterhaus

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The upper fountain master's house in Augsburg, also known as the "House at the Fishes", served as the official residence of the Augsburg fountain masters. Today it is part of the historic waterworks at the Red Gate, which is a listed building.

Wikipedia: Oberes Brunnenmeisterhaus (DE)

57. St. Margareth

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The Church of St. Margareth in Augsburg is a former convent church of the Dominican nuns and is now used by the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter. The church is an architectural monument that is registered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

Wikipedia: St. Margareth (Augsburg) (DE)

58. Dominikanerkloster Heilig-Kreuz

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The Monastery of the Holy Cross is a former Augustinian monastery in Augsburg, Bavaria, in the Diocese of Augsburg. Since 1936 it has been a Dominican monastery. The site is also home to the Catholic and Protestant Holy Cross churches.

Wikipedia: Kloster Heilig Kreuz (Augsburg) (DE)

59. Gaswerk Augsburg

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Gaswerk Augsburg Oliver Frühschütz (= User Gaswerk Augsburg, www.gaswerk-augsburg.de) / Attribution

The Augsburg gasworks was put into operation at the end of 1915 in the Augsburg district of Oberhausen. Since 2001, the entire gasworks with the gas boiler – a disc gas tank formerly operated at low pressure – has been shut down.

Wikipedia: Gaswerk Augsburg (DE), Website

60. Kastenturm

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The Kastenturm, also known as the Spitalturm, is a water tower in Augsburg and a monument to Augsburg's historic water management. It is located at the Holy Spirit Hospital, which is adjacent to the waterworks at the Red Gate.

Wikipedia: Kastenturm (Augsburg) (DE)

61. Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus

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Since its opening in 1996, the Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus has been the international forum for contemporary art of the Municipal Art Collections in Augsburg. It is located in the listed Höhmannhaus at Maximilianstraße 48.

Wikipedia: Neue Galerie im Höhmannhaus (DE)

62. St. Thaddäus

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The Catholic parish church of St. Thaddäus is located on the corner of Reinöhl-/Ulmer Straße in the Augsburg district of Kriegshaber (Neukrieghaber) at the Augsburg-Oberhausen railway station opposite Keller & Knappich.

Wikipedia: St. Thaddäus (Augsburg-Kriegshaber) (DE)

63. Hofgarten

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The Hofgarten is a green space in the old town of Augsburg, Germany. It is part of the former prince-bishop's residence, which was rebuilt in the 18th century and was built between 1739 and 1744 by Johann Caspar Bagnato.

Wikipedia: Hofgarten (Augsburg) (DE)

64. Fabrikschloss

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The Mechanische Baumwollspinnerei und Weberei is a cotton mill in Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. It was founded in 1837 and was considered one of the oldest textile manufacturing companies in Germany. It was closed in 1989.

Wikipedia: Mechanische Baumwollspinnerei und Weberei Augsburg (EN)

65. St. Peter am Perlach

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St. Peter am Perlach or Perlach-Church is a romanesque Catholic church in the center of Augsburg (Bavaria). The tower of the church, the Perlachturm, is together with the Augsburg Town Hall the landmark of Augsburg.

Wikipedia: St. Peter am Perlach (EN)

66. Wittelsbacher Park

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The Wittelsbacher Park is one of the largest green spaces in Augsburg. It is 18 hectares in size and has been a protected landscape area since 10 March 1980. The total area of the protected area is 20.8 hectares.

Wikipedia: Wittelsbacher Park (DE)

67. Freilichtbühne Augsburg

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The open-air stage at the Red Gate is one of the most renowned open-air theatres in Germany. With the Red Gate, the ramparts and the Holy Spirit Hospital in the background, it has a picturesque medieval backdrop.

Wikipedia: Freilichtbühne (Augsburg) (DE), Website

68. Skimuseum

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The Augsburg Ski Museum is located in Augsburg's textile district and deals with the history and development of modern skiing. It exhibits various historical and contemporary exhibits on an area of 300 m².

Wikipedia: Skimuseum Augsburg (DE)

69. St. Severin

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St. Severin in Augsburg is a Gothic religious building from the 13th century. The chapel, which served as the prison church of the Augsburg prison until 2016, is protected as an architectural monument.

Wikipedia: St. Severin (Augsburg) (DE)

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