Self-guided Sightseeing Tour #3 in Augsburg, Germany

The Stadtpflegeranger is a small green space in the city centre 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. Only a smaller part of the green area, which was laid out at the beginning of the 19th century, now remains.

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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.

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The Monastery of the Holy Cross is a former Augustinian monastery in Augsburg in Bavaria in the Diocese of Augsburg. It has been a Dominican monastery since 1936. The Catholic and Protestant Holy Cross churches are also located on the site.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Holy Cross Church in Augsburg was built in the 16th century from the extension of a former chapel. After the demolition of this church in 1630, the church was rebuilt from 1652 to 1653 in the style of a Protestant preaching church of the early Baroque period and in the following eight decades it was furnished with numerous Baroque paintings by important painters. It is the first Protestant church building in the city. As an architectural monument, it is entered in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

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

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The Fronhof is a green space in the city centre of Augsburg. It is surrounded to the north and west by the former prince-bishop's residence, today the seat of the government of Swabia. To the east is Augsburg Cathedral, including the cathedral forecourt and Roman wall. To the south, a row of houses – including the Burgrave's Tower – and Peutingerstraße border the Fronhof. The Fronhof as a green space is not to be confused with the Fronhof street, which is located a little further west by the Hofgarten.

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The Burgrave's Tower is a building in the former episcopal city of Augsburg, Germany. The episcopal city had been built on the ruins of the Roman settlement and consisted of a castle-like complex with a cathedral, a serfdom and an episcopal palace. In the burgrave's tower, which was rebuilt in 1507 under Bishop Henry 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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From 1515 onwards, the Peutingerhaus in Augsburg served as the residence of the humanist and town clerk Konrad Peutinger (1465–1547). The building, which dates back to the Middle Ages in its core, was rebuilt in the 18th century. In the walls of the gateway and the inner courtyard there are some Roman gravestones and a stone from the Middle Ages with a Hebrew inscription, which the passionate antiquities collector Peutinger had walled in there.

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The cathedral fountain in Augsburg is located in the south of the east choir of Augsburg Cathedral on the cathedral square and consists of a group of figures of the three patron saints of the diocese: Bishop Ulrich, St. Afra and Bishop Simpert.

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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 Diocesan Museum of St. Afra is the central museum of the Diocese of Augsburg and is located in the Augsburg Cathedral district directly behind the cathedral.

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The Small Golden Hall is a late Baroque banqueting hall of the former Augsburg Jesuit College of 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 Fugger city.

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St. Severin in Augsburg is a Gothic sacred 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.

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The Fugger and Wels Adventure Museum is a museum in the cathedral district of Augsburg that deals with the history of the two Augsburg merchant families Fugger and Welser. The museum opened in 2014.

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The Wieselhaus in Augsburg's cathedral district was built in the 16th/17th century. The former town house at Äußere Pfaffengässchen 23 is a protected architectural monument.

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The monastery church of St. Stephen in Augsburg is a former convent church of the convent of St. Stephen. After its destruction 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 entered in the Bavarian list of monuments.

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The Church of St. Gallus, also Galluskirchlein, is a Romanesque building in Augsburg and probably the oldest surviving church in Augsburg. The church, which is also called a chapel because of its small size, is an architectural monument that is entered in the Bavarian List of Monuments.

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

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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.

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