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Augsburg
The Town Hall of Augsburg
Coat of arms	Location
Administration
Country	Germany
State	Bavaria
Admin. region	Swabia
District	Urban district
Lord Mayor	Paul Wengert (SPD)
Basic statistics
Area	146.93 km² (57 sq mi)
Elevation	446-561 m
Population	263,477  (01/01/2007)
- Density	1,793 /km² (4,644 /sq mi)
Other information
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Licence plate	A
Postal codes	86150–86199
Area code	0821

Augsburg is a city in south-central Germany. It is the capital and the largest city of the Swabia administrative region of Bavaria, and is located at the confluence of the Wertach and Lech rivers. The population was 276,193 in 2004. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 564 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (862 × 917 pixel, file size: 296 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Description: Augsburger Rathaus (Aufnahme durch Torbogen) Source: shot 08. ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Karte_Deutschland. ... Image File history File links Red_pog2. ... This list of countries, arranged alphabetically, gives an overview of countries of the world. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... For other uses, see Bavaria (disambiguation). ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... Swabia (German: Schwaben) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south-west of Bavaria. ... There are 439 German districts (Kreise), administrative units in Germany. ... This is a list of urban districts in Germany. ... Councillor Patrick (Pat) John Stannard, Lord Mayor of Oxford (2004). ... Paul Wengert is Mayor of Augsburg in the state of Bavaria in Germany. ... SPD redirects here. ... This article is about the physical quantity. ... A square metre (US spelling: square meter) is by definition the area enclosed by a square with sides each 1 metre long. ... A square mile is an English unit of area equal to that of a square with sides each 1 statute mile (≈1,609 m) in length. ... Elevation histogram of the surface of the Earth – approximately 71% of the Earths surface is covered with water. ... Population density per square kilometre by country, 2006 Population density map of the world in 1994. ... Timezone and TimeZone redirect here. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Time (CET) is one of the names of the time zone that is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Time zones of Europe: Light colours indicate countries that do not observe summer time Central European Summer Time (CEST) is one of the names of UTC+2 time zone, 2 hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time. ... Central European Time West Africa Time British Summer Time* Irish Summer Time* Western European Summer Time* Category: ... Eastern European Time Central Africa Time Israel Standard Time South Africa Standard Time Central European Summer Time West Africa Summer Time Category: ... German car number plates (Kfz-Kennzeichen) show the place where the car carrying them is registered. ... German Postleitzahl map of the first two digits Postal codes in Germany, Postleitzahl (plural Postleitzahlen, abbreviated to PLZ), consist of five digits, which indicate the wider area (first two digits), and the postal district (last three digits). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles. ... Swabia (German: Schwaben) is one of the seven administrative regions of Bavaria, Germany, located in the south-west of Bavaria. ... A Regierungsbezirk is an government region of Germany, a subdivision of certain federal states (Bundesländer). ... For other uses, see Bavaria (disambiguation). ... The Wertach is a river in Bavaria, southern Germany, left tributary of the Lech. ... The river Lech, in the background the city of Landsberg The river Lech in Augsburg The Lech (Licus, Licca) is a river in Austria and Germany. ...

[edit] History

Main article: History of Augsburg

The city was founded in 15 BC in the reign of Roman emperor Augustus as a garrison called Augusta Vindelicum. Around 120 AD Augsburg became the capital of the Roman province Raetia. It was laid to waste by the Huns in the fifth century, by Charlemagne in the eighth, and by Welf of Bavaria in the eleventh; it rose each time only to greater prosperity. This article is about the history of city of Augsburg and of Diocese of Augsburg. ... Vienna becomes a frontier city guarding the Roman Empire against the German tribes to the north. ... For other uses, see Roman Empire (disambiguation). ... An emperor is a (male) monarch, usually the sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. ... For other persons named Octavian, see Octavian (disambiguation). ... For people named Garrison, see Garrison (disambiguation) Garrison House, built by William Damm in 1675 at Dover, New Hampshire Garrison (from the French garnison, itself from the verb garnir, to equip) is the collective term for the body of troops stationed in a particular location, originally to guard it, but... The Roman Empire ca. ... Many historians consider the Huns (meaning person in Mongolian language) the first Mongolian and Turkic people mentioned in European history. ... Charlemagne (left) and Pippin the Hunchback. ... Welf I (died about 9 November 1101, Paphos) was duke of Bavaria from 1070 to 1077 and from 1096 to his death. ...

It became an Imperial Free City on March 9, 1276. Given its strategic location on the trade routes to Italy, it became a major trading centre. It produced large quantities of woven goods, cloth and textiles, and was the base for the Fugger banking empire. The Fuggerei, part of the city devoted to housing for the needy citizens of Augsburg, was founded in 1516 and is still in use today. In the Holy Roman Empire, an imperial free city (in German: freie Reichsstadt) was a city formally responsible to the emperor only — as opposed to the majority of cities in the Empire, which belonged to a territory and were thus governed by one of the many princes (Fürsten) of... is the 68th day of the year (69th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... January 21 - Pope Innocent V succeeds Pope Gregory X as the 185th pope. ... Coat of arms Map of Württemberg before the French Revolutionary Wars, showing the County of Fugger, with the Danube shown running through the centre of the image and the Iller forming the border between Württemberger lands (coloured) and Bavarian lands (non-coloured) Capital Weißenhorn (nominally) Imp. ... The Fuggerei is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. ...

In 1530 the Augsburg Confession was presented to the Holy Roman Emperor at the Diet of Augsburg. Following the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, after which the rights of religious minorities in imperial cities were to be protected, a mixed Catholic-Protestant city council presided over a majority Protestant population. Until the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), religious peace in the city was largely maintained despite increasing confessional tensions. In 1629 Emperor Ferdinand II issued the Edict of Restitution resulting in the installation of an entirely Catholic city government that radically curtailed the rights of local Protestants. This persisted until April 1632, when the Swedish army of Gustavus Adolphus took the city without resistance. Just over two years later, the Swedish army was routed at nearby Nördlingen, and by October 1634 Catholic troops had surrounded Augsburg. The Swedish garrison refused to surrender and a disastrous siege ensued through the winter of 1634–5, during which thousands died of hunger and disease. Wikisource has original text related to this article: Augsburg Confession The Augsburg Confession, also known as the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Lutheran reformation. ... The Holy Roman Emperor was, with some variation, the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire, the predecessor of modern Germany, during its existence from the 10th century until its collapse in 1806. ... Reading of the Confessio Augustana by Emperor Charles V at the Diet of Augsburg, 1530 The Diet of Augsburg were the meetings of the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire in the German city of Augsburg. ... The front page of the document. ... Combatants Sweden  Bohemia Denmark-Norway (Until 1643) Dutch Republic France Scotland England Saxony  Holy Roman Empire ( Catholic League) Spain Austria Bavaria Commanders Frederick V Buckingham Leven Gustav II Adolf â€  Johan Baner Cardinal Richelieu Louis II de Bourbon Turenne Christian IV of Denmark Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar Johann Georg I of... This article needs cleanup. ... Gustav II Adolf King of Sweden Gustav II Adolf (also known as Gustaf Adolf the Great (Swedish Gustav Adolf den store, Latin Gustavus Adolphus Magnus), or Gustavus II Adolphus; December 9, 1594 – November 6, 1632 O.S.), widely known by the Latinized name Gustavus Adolphus and referred to by contemporary...

These difficulties, together with the discovery of America, and of the route to India by the Cape, conspired to destroy the town's prosperity. In 1806, when the Holy Roman Empire was dissolved, Augsburg lost its independence and became part of the kingdom of Bavaria. It increased considerably in industrial importance in the nineteenth century. It contained large cotton and woollen mills, machine shops, and manufacturers of acetylene gas, paper, chemicals, jewellery, and leather. Out of one acetylene gas plant the company KUKA was founded (1898) as Keller und Knappich Augsburg, today one of the leading companies for industrial robots. Also it gave birth to the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg (Later to merge with Maschinenfabrik Nürnberg and become Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nürnberg or MAN AG) - a machine factory where Rudolf Diesel pioneered commercial production of his Diesel engine. World map showing the Americas CIA political map of the Americas The Americas are the lands of the Western hemisphere or New World consisting of the continents of North America[1] and South America with their associated islands and regions. ... The Cape of Good Hope; looking towards the west, from the coastal cliffs above Cape Point. ... This article is about the medieval empire. ... KUKA industrial robots welding a car body in the white section of a production line. ... An industrial robot is officially defined by ISO (Standard 8373:1994, Manipulating Industrial Robots – Vocabulary) as an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, multipurpose manipulator programmable in three or more axes. ... MAN AG (formerly called Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg AG, ISIN: DE0005937007) is a German transportation company. ... This article is about Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor. ... A diesel engine built by MAN AG in 1906 Rudolf Diesels 1893 patent on his engine design The Diesel engine is an internal combustion engine which operates using the Diesel cycle named after German engineer Rudolf Diesel, who invented it in 1876, based on the hot bulb engine, and...

During World War II, various subcamps of the Dachau concentration camp were located in the city. They supplied slave labour to local industry.^[1] Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The main entrance just after the liberation Memorial at the camp, 1997. ... Slavery is any of a number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other clear forms of coercion. ...

In 1941 Rudolf Hess took off from a local airport and flew to Scotland to meet the Duke of Hamilton and attempt to mediate the end of the European front of World War II and join sides for the upcoming Russian Campaign. Not to be confused with Rudolf Hoess. ... This article is about the country. ... Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1643. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000...

In 1945 elements of the U.S. Army occupied the heavily damaged city. An American Military presence in the city started with the 11th Airborne Division, moving to the 24th Infantry Division, US Army Seventh Corps Artillery, and, ending with the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade, which left the area in 1998. The Army is the branch of the United States armed forces which has primary responsibility for land-based military operations. ... Shoulder sleeve patch of the 11th Airborne Division. ... The 24th Infantry Division (Mechanized)—also known as the Victory Division—was an infantry division of the United States Army with base of operations at Fort Riley, Kansas originally organized out of the old Hawaiian Division. ...

[edit] Main sights

The Goldene Saal (Golden Hall)

Fünfgratturm tower.

Door handle on the Dom (Cathedral) St. Maria.

Augsburg

Augsburg (lower center) in Germany

• The Town Hall, built in 1620 in Renaissance style
• Perlachturm, a bell tower built in 1182
• Fuggerei (see above)
• Bishop's Residence, built about 1750 in order to replace the older bishop palace; today the administrative seat of Swabia
• Cathedral, founded in the 9th century
• Augsburger Puppenkiste, a very famous marionette theater
• Eiskanal
• Dorint Hotel Tower
• Der Goldene Saal
• St. Ulrich and St. Afra— one church is Roman Catholic, the other Lutheran, the duality a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants
• Mozarthaus Augsburg (The composer's father, Leopold Mozart was born there and Mozart visited on several occasions)
• Childhood home of Bertolt Brecht

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[edit] Incorporations

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[edit] Historical population development:

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[edit] Partner cities

• Inverness, Scotland, since 1956
• Amagasaki, Japan, since 1959
• Nagahama, Japan, since 1959
• Bourges, France, since 1963
• Dayton, United States, since 1964
• Liberec, Czech Republic, since 2001
• Jinan, People's Republic of China, since 2004

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[edit] Commerce and infrastructure

[edit] Transport

The main road link is the autobahn A 8 towards Munich and Stuttgart It has been suggested that German Autobahns be merged into this article or section. ... Bundesautobahn 8 (BAB 8 or A 8) is an Autobahn that runs from Luxemburg border through southern Germany to Austrian border near Salzburg. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ... , City Center seen from Weinsteige Road Castle Solitude The 1956 TV Tower The Weissenhof Estate in 1927 Stuttgart (IPA: []) is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. ...

[edit] Public transport

Public transport in Augsburg is controlled by the Augsburger Verkehrsverbund (Augsburg transport union, AVV), which extends over central Swabia, and includes four tram lines, 27 city bus and six night bus lines as well as several taxi companies. This article refers to public transport vehicles running on rails. ...

The tram network is now 35.5 km-long following the opening of new lines to the university in 1996, the northern city boundary in 2001 and to the Klinikum Augsburg (hospital) in 2002. Two more tram lines are planned to be completed in 2011. The University of Augsburg is a publicly financed university in Augsburg, Bavaria. ...

[edit] Rail services

The front of the station

Augsburg has seven stations, including the Hauptbahnhof (main station), which was built from 1843 to 1846 and is Germany’s oldest main station in a large city still in service in its original building. It is currently being modernized and an underground tram station is being built under it. It is on the Ulm–München line and is connected by ICE and IC services to Munich, Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. In addition EC and night train services connect to Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna and connections will be substantially improved by the creation of the planned Magistrale for Europe. Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 530 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1060 pixel, file size: 395 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 530 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1060 pixel, file size: 395 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Augsburg Hauptbahnhof (usually translated from German as Augsburg Central Station, short form: Augsburg Hbf) is the Hauptbahnhof for the Bavarian city of Augsburg, situated in southern Germany. ... The Ulm-Munich line is a German railway line. ... ICE 3 trainset near Ingolstadt The InterCityExpress or ICE (German pronunciation: ) is a system of high-speed trains predominantly running in Germany and its neighbouring countries. ... A Romanian InterCity train, run by Romanian Railways, at Arad station in May 2003 InterCity is a name for the inter-city rail services in Europe. ... For other uses, see Munich (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... Dortmund is a city in Germany, located in the Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia, in the Ruhr area. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... This article is about the city in Germany. ... , City Center seen from Weinsteige Road Castle Solitude The 1956 TV Tower The Weissenhof Estate in 1927 Stuttgart (IPA: []) is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. ... German Class 101 locomotive pulling an EuroCity train consisting of Swiss and German coaches EuroCity, abbreviated EC, denotes an international train service within the European inter-city rail network. ... For other uses, see Amsterdam (disambiguation). ... This article is about the capital of France. ... For other uses, see Vienna (disambiguation). ... The Magistrale for Europe is a Trans-European Networks project for the creation of a high-speed railway line between Paris and Budapest. ...

The AVV operates six Regionalbahn lines from the main station to: RB train The RegionalBahn (abbreviated RB) is a type of regional train in Germany. ...

• Mammendorf/Schmiechen
• Aichach/Radersdorf
• Meitingen/Donauwörth
• Dinkelscherben
• Schwabmünchen
• Klosterlechfeld.

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[edit] Education

Augsburg is home to the following universities and colleges:

• University of Augsburg, founded in 1970 [1]
• Fachhochschule Augsburg

The University of Augsburg is a publicly financed university in Augsburg, Bavaria. ... Fachhochschule Augsburg or University of Applied Sciences in Augsburg. ...

[edit] Notable citizens

Holbein's house

• Paulus Hector Mair, 16th century martial artist.
• Jakob Fugger Noted banker and financial broker (1459-1525). An area within the city, called the Fuggerei was set aside for the poor and needy. Founded in 1519.
• Hans Holbein the Elder (ca. 1465–1524), a pioneer in the transformation of German art from the Gothic to the Renaissance style.
• Leopold Mozart, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
• Bertolt Brecht, famous German writer.
• Julius Schiller, lawyer and astronomer.

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[edit] Miscellaneous

The patron saint of Augsburg is Saint Afra, who was killed by the Romans at Augsburg in 304. An earlier patroness was Zisa, referenced in the 11th century, feast day September 28), possibly an early Germanic goddess and originally the consort of Tiwaz. In traditional Christian iconography, Saints are often depicted as having halos. ... Saint Afra (died 304) was a Christian martyr. ... For other uses, see 304 (disambiguation). ... is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about Tyr, the god. ...

The White Water Canoeing events for the 1972 Summer Olympics were held on the Lech in Augsburg. The facilities are still open to the public. This page discusses whitewater rapids. ... The 1972 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad, were held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

[edit] See also

• List of civic divisions of Augsburg
• League of Augsburg
• Augsburg College A private Lutheran College in the United States that takes its name from the Augsburg Confession.
• List of mayors of Augsburg
• Rudolf Diesel, inventor of the Diesel engine, who also used biodiesel
• Augsburg Academy A private Lutheran elementary school in Beltsville, Maryland, that takes its name from the City of Augsburg.

Map of civic divisions in Augsburg, showing both Planungsräume and Stadtbezirke. ... The Grand Alliance (known, prior to 1689, as the League of Augsburg) was a European coalition, consisting (at various times) of Austria, Bavaria, Brandenburg, England, the Holy Roman Empire, the Netherlands, the Palatinate of the Rhine, Saxony, Spain, Sweden, and the United Provinces. ... Augsburg College is a liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. ... Wikisource has original text related to this article: Augsburg Confession The Augsburg Confession, also known as the Augustana from its Latin name, Confessio Augustana, is the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church and one of the most important documents of the Lutheran reformation. ... This is a list of mayors of Augsburg. ... This article is about Rudolf Diesel, the German inventor. ... This article is about transesterified plant and animal oils. ...

[edit] References

• Die Chroniken der schwäbischen Städte, Augsburg, (Leipzig, 1865-96)
• Werner, Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg, (Augsburg, 1900)
• Lewis, "The Roman Antiquities of Augsburg and Ratisbon", in volume xlviii, Archæological Journal, (London, 1891)

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to:

Augsburg

• Stadt Augsburg Official site (English version)
• Augsburg Region Tourism
• Augsburg Tourist Attractions
• Fotosafari Augsburg An interactive set of pictures which allows you to explore Augsburg
• Sites in German:
  • Augsburg City Plan
  • District of Augsburg

v • d • e City Divisions of Augsburg
I: Innenstadt |II: Oberhausen |III: Bärenkeller |IV: Firnhaberau |V: Hammerschmiede |VI: Lechhausen |VII: Kriegshaber |VIII: Pfersee |IX: Hochfeld |X: Antonsviertel |XI: Spickel-Herrenbach |XII: Hochzoll |XIII: Haunstetten-Siebenbrunn |XIV: Göggingen |XV: Inningen |XVI: Bergheim |XVII: Universitätsviertel
List of civic divisions of Augsburg

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