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Augsburg - A City full of History
Augsburg: Blick auf die Burg
A city which owes its present appearance to its prosperity as a European finance metropolis during the Renaissance. A city which is alive with an almost Italian flair…
The Fuggerei - The oldest social settlement in the world
Augsburg: Fuggerei mit Blick auf das Rathaus
The Fuggerei was founded in 1521 by “Jakob Fugger the Rich”, for industrious, innocently impoverished Augsburg citizens of Roman Catholic faith. During that decade, Jakob Fugger has been the richest businessman in Europe. Today the Fuggerei is still a social settlement for needy citizens, of Augsburg. It is the oldest social settlement in the world today: it encompasses 67 houses with 140 council flats. The annual rent was 1 Rhenish gulden and it still is only 1 Euro today.

The lifestyle of earlier times at the Fuggerei is shown at the museum where visitors can have an insight of the only apartment of the Fuggerei which has been preserved in its original condition. In 2006 a modern didactic area of the museum was newly opened where the story of the Fuggers and the Fuggerei is documented on film, with text and picture boards as well as with exhibits.
Music, Music - Augsburg, the city of the Mozart family
Augsburg: Freilichtbühne; Copyright: Theater Augsburg
Augsburg was one of the most important cities in the life of the musical genius Wolfgang Amadé Mozart. And not just because his father, Leopold Mozart, was born in Augsburg. The Mozart House is a reminder of him and his famous son and the fact that the Mozart family originally came from the Augsburg region.
Today music and theatre are still very good reasons to visit Augsburg. Unique is the ”Kurhaus” Theatre, one of the most beautiful theatres in Europe. The Augsburg Open Air Theatre in front of the former city battlements entices you into opera and musicals on warm summer evenings in a particularly romantic setting.
The “Confessio-Road” - Through Protestant Augsburg
Augsburg; Martin Luther
The “Confessio-Road” in a unique way, brings you close to the world changing Confessio Augustana. It brings you to places where the monk Martin Luther was active and to states of the Reformation, a movement which went from here out into the world.

The Augsburg Religionsfrieden, which reached an agreement on the equality of the confessions, was the first meaningful step in the direction of freedom of religion and conscience, but also one of the reasons for the Thirty Years’ War which hit the city hard. Everything began in 1530, in Augsburg – with the confessio Augustana. Today the Augsburg Confession is the worlwide doctrinal basis of 540 million Christians.
For further information:
Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH

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