Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #8 in Augsburg, Germany

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Brechthaus is the birthplace of the poet, playwright and writer Bertolt Brecht in the old town of Augsburg and is now a museum and memorial for him.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Diocesan Museum 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 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.

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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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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.

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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 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.

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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".

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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.

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Schloss Pfersee is located in the Pfersee district of Augsburg. It is a three-storey gable building with stepped gables, four round corner towers and a round tower on the west front of the building.

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