Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #7 in Augsburg, Germany

The Botanischer Garten Augsburg is a municipal botanical garden located at Dr.-Ziegenspeck-Weg 10, Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany. It is open daily; an admission fee is charged.

Wikipedia: Botanischer Garten Augsburg (EN), Website

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.

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The Red Gate was part of Augsburg's former city fortifications and was not demolished during the demolition of the city wall in the 19th century.

Wikipedia: Rotes Tor (Augsburg) (DE)

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.

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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)

The Augsburger Puppenkiste is a marionette theater in Augsburg, Germany.

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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.

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The Swabian craftsman museum in Augsburg is a museum operated by the Chamber of Crafts for Swabia, in which workshops of old craft professions, which are trained in detail, are exhibited.

Wikipedia: Schwäbisches Handwerkermuseum (DE)

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)

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.

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The Basilica of SS. Ulrich and Afra is a Catholic parish in Augsburg in Bavaria, which originated from the Roman tomb of Saint Afra, who was martyred in 304.

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The 4th Field Artillery Regiment "König" was an artillery regiment of the Bavarian Army.

Wikipedia: Königlich Bayerisches 4. Feldartillerie-Regiment „König“ (DE)

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.

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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)

The Fire Brigade Experience World in Augsburg is an exhibition that has been in existence since May 2021 and deals with the topic of fire protection.

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The H2 – Centre for Contemporary Art is the municipal museum for contemporary art in Augsburg. It was opened on 23 May 2006 in the Glaspalast Augsburg.

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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

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)

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)

The Don Bosco Church is a Catholic parish church in the Wolfram and Herrenbach district of Augsburg, Germany. It is dedicated to Saint Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco.

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