Augsburg-Ulrichsviertel

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Ulrichsviertel

Augsburg wappen.svg District of Augsburg

View over the Ulrichsviertel
Basic data
Residents approx. 4,000 (January 1, 2008)
Spatial assignment
Planning space I - downtown
Borough 1/2 - city ​​center,
St. Ulrich – Dom /
Lechviertel,
eastern Ulrichsviertel
 

The Ulrichsviertel is a district of Augsburg that belongs to the Augsburg city center planning area , with its western part being part of the city center district , St. Ulrich-Dom , and its eastern part being part of the Lechviertel district and eastern Ulrichsviertel . The population is around 4,000.

history

The Ulrichsviertel borders directly on the Lechviertel , with which it forms the city district 1, Lechviertel-Ulrichsviertel. Like the Lechviertel, it is located in the Lech river valley . The atmosphere of the two districts is similar: narrow streets, Lech canals and individual shops. The architectural style distinguishes the two quarters: Many of the typical houses in the Ulrichsviertel have beaver tail tiles from the Middle Ages on the roof . There were also many craftsmen's houses in the Ulrichsviertel, some of which still exist. Painting companies and file carvers had or have their little houses here, driven by the Lech canals. The Ulrichsviertel is partly still enclosed by the old city walls and thus allows a nice walk along the green ramparts. The city wall is adjacent to the city moat, which protected the city from intruders in the Middle Ages and managed to do so until the arrival of Bavaria in the early 19th century. The Augsburg merchants were more of a trading than a shooting people. Today only about twenty percent of the old city wall is preserved, enough to take a kilometer-long walk between the Fischertor and the Rotem Tor. Four city gates, two bastions, ramparts and city walls are the remains of the large fortress that completely enclosed the old town until the 1860s.

Ulrichsviertel today

St. Ulrich and Afra Basilica

The Ulrichsviertel, like the entire old town of Augsburg, was extensively renovated. The old houses were renovated, the Lech canals exposed and a resident-friendly environment created. In contrast to the neighboring Lechviertel, where most of the handicraft businesses were relocated, there are still some old handicraft businesses in the Ulrichsviertel that have been doing their business for centuries in the shadow of the St. Ulrich Church in the upper town . Today there are many small shops in the Ulrichsviertel, and the night-time bar scene is spread across the entire quarter.

Well city Augsburg

The Ulrichsviertel is considered to be the origin of the wells and the associated possibility of obtaining clean drinking water. For the residents of Augsburg at the time, drinking water was a luxury that was hardly available in any other city in Germany. The first documented drinking water fountain was built around 1412 in front of the gates of the old town at the Schwibbogentor (demolished in 1867). The Augsburg councilors wanted to offer the citizens of their affluent city a special discount and also to show them a head start over other cities that did not have a drinking water supply at the time. Therefore they offered the drinking water free of charge to all citizens of the imperial city of Augsburg.

The first complete drinking water supply arose in the Ulrichsviertel when the fountain systems at the Red Gate were built a few years later. They consisted of water towers, pumping stations and the well master's house. Even today, the facility, which is no longer in use, is largely preserved and open to visitors. After completion, the city's public buildings could be supplied with drinking water from over five thousand pipes. From the 16th century onwards, private houses within the city walls were also supplied with the construction of a pipe system.

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