Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Augsburg, Germany

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.

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The Vogeltor in Augsburg is part of the former city wall and used to serve as an entrance to the Jakobervorstadt, which is located in the area of today's Augsburg-Innenstadt planning area.

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The Dominican convent church of St. Ursula in Augsburg was built in 1516 and enlarged in 1720. As an architectural monument, it is registered in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

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The Schäfflerbrunnen is located in the Schäfflerhof in Augsburg's Lechviertel at Schwibbogengasse 9.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Manzù Fountain is a fountain open to the public on the edge of Königsplatz in downtown Augsburg, Germany.

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Martin-Luther-Platz is a square in the city centre of Augsburg, Germany. Until 1933 it was called Annaplatz because of the nearby church of St. Anna.

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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.

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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.

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In the list of monuments in the city center, St. Ulrich - Dom are the monuments in the city center of Augsburg, St. Ulrich - Dom in Planning room downtown (I) listed. There is also a collection of pictures for these monuments.

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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.

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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.

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The Convent of the Franciscan Sisters of Maria Stern is a listed convent of Franciscan Tertiary Sisters, the Franciscan Sisters of Maria Stern, in the Old Town of Augsburg.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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