Augsburg city center, St. Ulrich Cathedral

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City center, St. Ulrich Cathedral

Augsburg wappen.svg 2nd district of Augsburg

Location of the city district in Augsburg
Basic data
surface 0.528 km²
Residents 3,019 (December 31, 2013)
Population density 5,718 inhabitants per km²
structure
Planning space I - downtown
Districts Domviertel
city ​​center
Ulrichsviertel (western part)
image
View of downtown Augsburg: Perlach tower, town hall, Moritzkirche
Data status : December 31, 2013

City center, St. Ulrich Cathedral is one of 41 districts of the city of Augsburg and is part of the Augsburg city center planning area . As of December 31, 2013, 3,000 primary and secondary residents were living in the municipality. It houses a large number of architectural monuments .

history

The center of Augsburg is located in the upper town and, together with the cathedral district, forms a district. The center is also popularly called Stadtmitte or City . The Augsburg center has always been the center of life in Augsburg. During the city's heyday in the Middle Ages, the representative government buildings and company headquarters of the wealthy entrepreneurs were built here.

The main axis was the Hoher Weg-Karolinenstrasse-Maximilianstrasse, which led from the Hohen Dom over the town hall with Perlach to the St. Ulrich and Afra basilica . The street was considered to be one of the most important urban traffic axes of the Middle Ages in Europe. The road was interrupted by several squares that were mainly used for market and trade purposes. The most important square was the area in front of the town hall, at that time the main market square of the free imperial city. Located directly in front of the town hall and the Perlach tower, it was decorated with the Augustus Fountain in 1594. Today the fountain, together with the other two magnificent fountains , the Hercules and Mercury Fountains, is one of the most beautiful in Europe. Today's Rathausplatz has been significantly enlarged since the 1960s when the Augsburg stock exchange building, which was destroyed in World War II, was torn down compared to the medieval area. In addition to the magnificent buildings on Maximilianstrasse, the center is lined with other important buildings that bordered up to the old city wall.

The image of the center of Augsburg during the Middle Ages was shaped by a number of marketplaces and rich town houses. The architectural style mostly corresponded to that of the Renaissance , Gothic or Baroque . At that time Augsburg, together with Venice, was considered to be the trading metropolis of Europe and was an important financial center well into the 19th century thanks to flourishing trading companies such as those of the Fugger and Welser families and banks.

Center today

The center of Augsburg is now heavily dominated by shopping streets. Where the markets and narrow streets used to be, there are mainly places of consumption. The entire area between the former city wall and the town hall is now a pedestrian zone . The main shopping streets are Annastraße , Bürgermeister-Fischer-Straße and Philippine-Welser-Straße .

Maximilianstrasse, called “Maxstrasse” by the party people, has developed into an evening party zone. There are numerous bars, discos and restaurants between Moritzplatz and the Ulrichskirchen. Hundreds of party guests flock to the boulevard on mild summer nights. Events of a cultural, sporting or other nature often take place on the town hall square on weekends.

The central square is the traffic junction for public transport, the Königsplatz . Here the second main traffic axis leads west along Augsburg city center, which runs from the city theater on Kennedyplatz via Königsplatz to Theodor-Heuss-Platz.

While the area in the pedestrian zone as well as around the town hall and on Maximilianstrasse has largely retained its old building stock, in the area around Königsplatz and the west-east axis Grottenau there is a new building stock, mostly from the middle of the 20th century. During the Second World War, large parts of the center were destroyed by Allied bombing. They aimed at the important railway junction and the Augsburg industrial plants.

The Antonspfründe, an artist's house in Dominikanergasse, is a bit hidden. After secularization, the former monastery building was used as a retirement home for elderly citizens before it was converted into a studio house in the 1960s . The artists thus received a domicile for the Künstlerhof in the cathedral district, which was destroyed in the war. The initiator was the painter Fons Dörschug .

Market town of Augsburg

Augsburg has always been a city of trade and markets. In the imperial city there was not just one main market, as in most other German cities, but many different markets. There were markets where the citizens of Augsburg could buy anything, including exotic goods that were not yet available in other German cities. The largest and best-known markets were the fish market (today Rathausplatz), the fruit market, the meat market and the wine market. But there was also a Kornmarkt and a Kitzenmarkt, the street name still preserved.

In 1930, the buildings of a former tobacco factory between Fuggerstrasse and Annastrasse were redesigned to become the current city market as a central supply point for everyday goods. The increasing traffic load on the streets forced this concentration. The opening was on October 8, 1930. The city market is still used today as a popular shopping market.

View of the city market

Buildings and grounds are being renovated between 2006 and 2010 at a cost of millions. Several construction phases will be tackled one after the other in the city market, provided that the city's financial situation allows the investments:

2006 - Renewal of the Obst- und Gemüsegasse (buildings and surface)
2007 - renovation of the farmers' market (surface, flower stalls) and the meat hall (facade, entrance)
2008 - New flooring in the Straße der Bäcker, entrance from Annastraße, additional Viktualien stands
2009 - Refurbishment of the sales outlets in Fischgasse
2010 - Renewal of the disposal facility, entrance from Ernst-Reuter-Platz

The expenses up to the end of 2008 are calculated at 7.5 million euros.

The city market is open on weekdays from 7 a.m. It closes at 6 p.m. and on Saturdays at 2 p.m.

Attractions

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statistics Augsburg interactive. March 23, 2019, accessed March 23, 2019 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 22 '  N , 10 ° 54'  E