Augsburg

For ither uises, seeAugsburg (disambiguation).

Augsburg
View o Augsburg Ceity Haw an ither historical biggins in Augsburg
Coat airms
Augsburg
Coordinates:48°22′N10°54′E
Kintra	Germany
State	Bavarie
Admin. region	Schwaben
Destrict	Urban destrict
Govrenment
•Laird Mayor	Kurt Gribl(CSU)
Area
• Total	146.93 km2(56.73 sq mi)
Elevation	495 m (1,624 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	301,033
• Density	2,000/km2(5,300/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST(UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	86150–86199
Diallin codes	0821
Vehicle registration	A

Mixed Imperial City of Augsburg Paritätische ReichsstadtAugsburg
1276–1803
Status	Ceity
Caipital	Augsburg
Govrenment	Republic
Historical era	Middle Ages
• Bishopric established	4th century
•Bishopricgained Imperial immediacy	c.8881276
• Ceity gainedimmediacy	1276
•Diet o Augsburg: Confessio Augustana	1530
• JynedSchmalkadic League	1537
• Peace o Augsburg	1555
•Occupee'dbiSwaden	1632–351803
•MediatisittaeBavarie	1803
Precedit bi Succeedit bi Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg Kinrick o Bavarie

Augsburg(German pronunciation:[ˈʔaʊ̯ksbʊʁk](listen)) is a ceity in the sooth-wast oBavarie,Germany. It wis aFree Imperial Ceityfor ower 500 years.

It is avarsity tounan hame o theRegierungsbezirkSchwabenan theBezirk Schwaben.Augsburg is aurban destrictan hame tae the institutions o theLandkreis Augsburg.It is the third-lairgest ceity in Bavarie (efter Munich an Nuremberg) wi a population exceedin 280,000 ceitizens. EfterNeussanTrier,Augsburg is Germany's third auldest ceity, bein foondit bi the Romans asAugusta Vindelicorum.

Augsburg is the anerly German ceity wi its awn legal holiday, theAugsburger Hohes Friedensfest,celebratit on August 8 o ivery year. This gies Augsburg mair legal holidays than ony ither region or ceity in Germany.

Augsburg wis the hame o twapatricianfaimilies that rose tae great prominence internaitionally an aw, replacin theMedicisas Europe's leadin bankers, theFuggeran theWelserfaimilies.

Municipality

Main airticle:Leet o mayors o Augsburg

Frae 1266 till 1548, the termsStadtpfleger(heid o toun cooncil) anMayorwur uised interchyngeably, or occasionally, simultaneously. In 1548 the title wis feenally fixed taeStadtpfleger,who officiatit for several years an wis then awairdit the title for life (tho nae langer govrenin), sicweys resultin ramfeesely, in records o twa or mair simultaneousStadtpfleger.

Efter the transfer taeBavariein 1806, Augsburg wis ruled bi aMagistratewi twa mayors, supportit bi a addeetional cooncil o "Commonty Commissioners": theGemeindebevollmächtige.

As o 1907, the Mayor wis entitledOberbürgermeister,as Augsburg haed reached a population of 100,000, as per the BavarieGemeindeordnung.

Toun Cooncil

Election results of the Town Council syne 1972 in percent
Year	CSU	SPD	FDP	Grüne	ödp	DKP/PDS	REP	NPD	ither
1972	44.9	46.5	2.3	–	–	0.7	–	0.9	4.7
1978	46.8	44.5	2.7	–	–	0.4	–	0.6	4.9
1984	32.9	44.9	1.3	4.2	–	0.2	–	0.7	15.8
1990	43.1	28.4	2.5	10.8	–	–	10.0	–	5.2
1996	44.1	29.4	1.7	10.5	–	–	2.8	–	11.5
2002	43.5	36.4	3.5	8.7	1.8	1.2	–	–	4.9
2008	40.1	30.1	2.7	10.3	1.5	3.5	–	–	11.8
Seats 20081	25	19	1	6	–	22	–	–	73

¹Local elections on 2 Mairch 2008²2008:Die Linke³Pro Augsburg: 6,Freie Wähler:1

Members o the Bundestag

Augsburg is locatit in theWahlkreis 253 Augsburg-Stadtconstituency, which includesKönigsbrunnan the Destrict o Augsburg (Landkreis Augsburg).

Christian Rucko theCSUwis directly electit tae theBundestagwi 49.2% o the vote in the16t German Bundestag.

Indirectly electit tae the Bundestag tae adhere tae theLandeslistewurMiriam Grußfor theFDP,Heinz Paulafor theSPDanClaudia RothforBündnis 90/Die Grünen.

Main sichts

Fünfgratturmtower

Ring of Mercy on the Dom (Cathedral) St. Maria

Augsburg Synagogue

St. Ulrich and St. Afra Cathedral

• Toun Haw,biggit in 1620 inRenaissancestyle wi theGoldener Saal
• Perlachturm,a bell touer biggit in 989
• Fuggerei(see abuin)
• Fugger Palaces, restored renaissance palatial hames o the Fugger bankin faimily
• Bishop's Residence, biggit aboot 1750 in order tae replace the aulder bishop's palace; the day the administrative seat ofSwabia
• Cathedral,foondit in the 9t century
• St. Anne's Church
• Augsburg Synagogue,ane of the few German synagogues tae survive the war, nou beautifully restored and open wi a Jewish museum inside
• Schaezlerpalais,a Rococo mansion (1765) nou housing a major art museum
• St. Ulrich and St. Afra—ane kirk is Roman Catholic, the itherLutheran,the duality bein a result of thePeace of Augsburgconcluded in 1555 atween Catholics and Protestants
• Mozart Haus Augsburg (whaur composer's faitherLeopold Mozartwis born andMozartvisited it several times)
• Augsburger Puppenkiste,a puppet theatre
• Luther Stiege,museum locatit in a kirk, that shows Martin Luthers life and different rooms. (free admission)
• Eiskanal,the world's first artificialwhitewatercourse (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich Olympics)
• Dorint Hotel Tower
• Childhood home ofBertolt Brecht
• The AugsburgBotanical Gardens(Botanischer Garten Augsburg)
• Maximillian Museum
• 3 magnificent baroque fountains, the Agustus Fountain, Mercury Fountain and Hercules Fountain
• Walter Art Museum at the "Glas-Palace"
• Roman Museum locatit in the umwhile Monastery of St. Margaret (closed at the moment due tae risk of collapsing)
• Medieval canals, nou uised for white-watter kayak racing

Incorporations

Year	Municipality	Area
Julie 1, 1910	Meringerau	9.5 km²
Januar 1, 1911	Pfersee	3.5 km²
Januar 1, 1911	Oberhausen	8.6 km²
Januar 1, 1913	Lechhausen	27.9 km²
Januar 1, 1913	Hochzoll	4.4 km²
Aprile 1, 1916	Kriegshaber	59 km²
Julie 1, 1972	Göggingen
Julie 1, 1972	Haunstetten
Julie 1, 1972	Inningen

Historical population development

Year	Population
1635	16,432
1645	19,960
1806	26,200
1830	29,019
December 1, 1871 ¹	51,220
December 1, 1890 ¹	75,629
December 1, 1900 ¹	89,109
December 1, 1910 ¹	102,487
Juin 16, 1925 ¹	165,522
Juin 16, 1933 ¹	176,575
Mey 17, 1939 ¹	185,369
September 13, 1950 ¹	185,183
Juin 6, 1961 ¹	208,659
Mey 27, 1970 ¹	211,566
Juin 30, 1975	252,000
Juin 30, 1980	246,600
Juin 30, 1985	244,200
Mey 27, 1987 ¹	242,819
December 31, 1990	256.877
December 31, 1991	259.884
December 31, 1992	264.852
December 31, 1993	264.764
December 31, 1994	262.110
December 31, 1995	259.699
December 31, 1996	258.457
December 31, 1997	256.625
December 31, 1998	254.610
December 31, 1999	254.867
December 31, 2000	254.982
December 31, 2001	257.836
December 31, 2002	259.231
December 31, 2003	259.217
December 31, 2004	260.407
December 31, 2005	262.676
December 31, 2006	262.512
December 31, 2007	262.992
December 31, 2008	263.313
December 31, 2009	263.646
December 31, 2010	264.708
December 31, 2011	266.647

¹ Census result

Pairtner ceities

• Innerness,Unitit Kinrick,syne 1956
• Amagasaki,Japan,syne 1959
• Nagahama,Japan,syne 1959
• Bourges,Fraunce, syne 1963
• Dayton,Ohio,Unitit States, syne 1964
• Liberec,Czech Republic,syne 2001
• Jinan,Cheenae,syne 2004

Information on the pairtner ceities can foond atwww.augsburg.deArchived2005-12-14 at theWayback Machinean aw

Transport

Roads

The main road link isautobahnA 8atweenMunichanStuttgart.

Public transport

Public transport is vera well catered for. It is controlled bi theAugsburger Verkehrsverbund(Augsburg transport union, AVV) extendit ower central Swabie. Thare are seiven railRegionalbahnlines, fivetramlines, 27 ceity bus lines an sax nicht bus lines, as well as, several taxi companies.

TheAugsburg tramwey netwirkis nou 35.5 km-lang efter the openin o new lines tae thevarsityin 1996, the northren ceity boondar in 2001 an tae the Klinikum Augsburg (Augsburg hospital) in 2002. Tram line 6, which runs 5.2 km frae Friedberg West tae Rotes Tor, opened in Dizember 2010.

Rail services

The front of the station

Augsburg haes sax stations, theCentral Station(Hauptbahnhof),Hochzoll,Oberhausen,MorellstraßeandMesse.The Central Station, biggit frae 1843 tae 1846, is Germany’s auldest main station in a lairge ceity still providin services in the oreeginal building. It is currently bein modernized and an underground tram station is biggit underneath it.Hauptbahnhofis on theMunich–AugsburgandUlm–Augsburg linesand is connected biICEandICservices taeMunich,Berlin,Dortmund,Frankfurt,HamburgandStuttgart.As of December 2007, the FrenchTGVconnected Augsburg wi a direct High Speed Connection taeParis.In additionECand nicht train services connect taeAmsterdam,ParisandViennaand connections will be substantially improved bi the creation of the plannedMagistrale for Europe.

The AVV operates seivenRegionalbahnlines frae the main station tae:

• Mammendorf
• Schmiechen(direction taeAmmersee
• Aichach/Radersdorf
• Meitingen/Donauwörth
• Dinkelscherben
• Schwabmünchen
• Klosterlechfeld

Stairtin in 2008, the regional services are planned tae be altered taeS-Bahnfrequencies an developit lang term as integratit intae theAugsburg S-Bahn.

Air transport

Till 2005 Augsburg wis servit bi nearbiAugsburg Airport(AGB). In that year aw air passenger transport haes been relocatit taeMunich Airport.Syne then the Airport anerly serves forGeneral aviationanbusiness aviation.

Economy

KUKA's industrial robots

Augsburg is a vibrant industrial ceity. Mony global mercat leaders namelyMAN,EADSorKUKAproduce heich technology products lik printin seestems, lairge diesel ingines,industrial robotsor components for theAirbus A380an theArianecarrier rocket. Efter Munich, Augsburg is considered the heich-tech centre for Information an Communication in Bavarie an taks advantage o its lawer operatin costs, yet close proximity taeMunichan potential customers.

Major companies

• Boewe Systec
• EADS
• Faurecia
• Fujitsu Technology Solutions
• KUKARobotics / seestems
• MAN(Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg)
• manroland
• MT-Aerospace(umwhileMAN Technologie)
• NCR
• Osram
• Premium AEROTEC
• Siemens
• UPM-Kymmene(umwhile Haindl)
• VerlagsgruppeWeltbild
• WashTec(umwhile Kleindienst)
• synlab Group
• Amazon
• Cancom

Eddication

Augsburg is hame tae the follaein varsities an colleges:

• Varsity o Augsburg,foondit in 1970
• Hochschule Augsburg(Varsity o Applee'd Sciences, umwhile Fachhochschule Augsburg)

Media

The local newspaper is theAugsburger Allgemeinefirst published in 1807. Thare are aseveral local radio stations an a local TV station (a.tv) an aw.

Notable fowk

Holbein's hoose

• died 304Saint Afra
• c.890–973Saint Ulrich
• 1070–1127Saint Wolfhard
• 1442–1528Erhard RatdoltPrinter, famous for haein produced the first kent printers teep specimen beuk.
• 1459–1525Jakob FuggerNoted banker and financial broker. An area within the ceity, cried theFuggereiwis set aside for the poor and needy. Foondit in 1519.
• 1460–1524Hans Holbein the Elder,a pioneer in the transformation of German art frae theGothictae theRenaissancestyle.
• 1497–1543Hans Holbein the Younger,portrait an releegious penter.
• 1497-c.1574Matthäus Schwarz,accoontant an author
• 1517–1579Paulus Hector Mair,mairtial airtist.
• 1573–1646Elias Holl,airchitect
• 1580–1627Julius Schiller,lawyer an astronomer.
• 1704–1767Johann Jakob Haid,engraver
• 1719–1787Leopold Mozart,violinist-componer an faither oWolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• 1740–1786Christoph Christian Sturm,German preacher an author.
• 1873-1964Hans von Euler-Chelpin,co-recipient o 1929Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
• 1887–1943Julius Schaxel,biologist.
• 1858–1913Rudolf Diesel,inventor o the diesel ingine.
• 1898–1956Bertolt Brecht,famous German writer.
• 1920–2011Mietek Pemper,compiled an teepitOskar Schindler's leet, which savit 1,200 Jewish preesoners frae the Holocaust.
• 1933–2011Ulrich Biesinger,a umwhile German fitbawer, pairt o the team that wan the1954 FIFA Warld Cup.
• 1939–2012Helmut Haller,afitbawerwho representitWast Germanyat threeWarld Cups.
• 1948Wolf Blitzer,jurnalist an CNN reporter
• 1957Bernhard Langer,famous profeesional gowfer.
• 1959Bernd Schuster,aGermanfitbaa coach an umwhile player.
• 1961Armin Veh,aGermanfitbaa coach.
• 1962Josef Priller,LuftwaffeAce
• 1980Benny Greb,aGermansolo drum airtist.
• 1983Philipp Kohlschreiber,aGermantennis player.
• 1985Bianca Voitek,aGermanfemale bodybuilder.
• 1985Annina Braunmiller,aGermanvyce actress.
• 1989Johnny Cecotto, Jr.,aGermanracin career.

Sports

FC AugsburgagainstBorussia Dortmundin theBundesligaat theSGL arena

FC Augsburgis a fitbaa team based in Augsburg an plays in theSGL arena.FC Augsburg wis promotit taeBundesligain 2011. The new stadium (opened in Julie 2009) hostit gemmes o the2011 FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup.

The ceity is hame tae aDEL(first-diveesion) ice hockey team, theAugsburger Panther.The oreeginal club, AEV, wis formit in 1878, the auldest German ice sport club an regularly draws aroond 4000 spectators, quite raisonable for German ice hockey. Hame gemmes are played at theCurt Frenzel Stadion:a recently rebuilt (2012-2013) indoor rink an modren stadium. An aw Augsburg is hame tae ane o the maist tradeetional German basebaw clubs, the Augsburg Gators.

For the1972 Olympic GemmesinMunich,aLech Riverdam protective diversionary canal for river ice wis convertit intae the warld's firstairtificial whitewatterslalom course: theEiskanalan remains a warld-cless venue for whitewatter competeetion an servit as prototeep for twa dozen seemilar foreign courses.

Local ceity elk-names

While commonly criedFuggerstadt(Fuggers' ceity) due tae theFuggersresidin thare, athin Swabie it is aften referred tae asDatschiburgan aw: which oreeginatit sometime in the 19t century refers tae Augsburg's favorite sweet: theDatschimade frae fruit, preferably prunes, an thin cake daich.TheDatschiburger Kickerscharity fitbaa team (foondit in 1965) reflects this in its choice o team name.

See an aw

• Leet o ceevic diveesions o Augsburg
• League of Augsburg
• Augsburg College,a privateLutheranCollege in the Unitit States that taks its name frae theAugsburg Confession
• Leet o mayors o Augsburg
• Rudolf Diesel,inventor o the Diesel ingine, who uisedbiodieselan aw

References

• Die Chroniken der schwäbischen Städte, Augsburg,(Leipzig, 1865–1896).
• Werner,Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg,(Augsburg, 1900).
• Lewis, "The Roman Antiquities of Augsburg and Ratisbon", in volume xlviii,Archæological Journal,(Lunnon, 1891).

Freemit airtins

• Stadt AugsburgArchived2008-09-10 at theWayback MachineOffeecial steid (Inglis version)
• Augsburg Region Tourism
• Wohnungen AugsburgArchived2012-11-26 at theWayback Machine
• Fotosafari AugsburgArchived2009-08-23 at theWayback MachineA interactive set o picturs which allous ye tae splore Augsburg
• (in German)Augsburg Ceity Plan
• (in German)Destrict o Augsburg
• (in German)[1]Archived2013-09-26 at theWayback Machine