Augsburg Stock Exchange
The Augsburg Stock Exchange was founded in 1540, driven by the trading activities of the Fuggers . Together with the Nuremberg Stock Exchange , it was the first institution of its kind in Germany. With that of the Nazis forced to January 1, 1935 merger between Munich and Augsburg exchange for the Bavarian Stock Exchange , based in Munich, Augsburg Stock Exchange was closed.
Since 1830, the Augsburg Stock Exchange has been located in a representative building directly in front of the Augsburg City Hall , on Ludwigsplatz or the beginning of Maximilianstrasse , where today's Rathausplatz is located. After the stock exchange operation ended, the Reichsrundfunk , among others, used the building and opened a transmitter with two studios there on September 10, 1937.
In the air raid on Augsburg in February 1944, the stock exchange building suffered considerable damage. The ruin had already been removed down to the ground floor in 1949, the remains of the building were removed at the beginning of the 1960s. After plans by Stadtsparkasse Augsburg to build a new head office at the former location of the stock exchange failed in the mid-1960s, the area became part of the new town hall square, which since then also obstructed the view of the entire western front of Augsburg City Hall allows. The “Kanzleigäßchen”, the former connection from Maximilian- to Philippine-Welser-Strasse, which ran between the stock exchange and the municipal administration building, has also belonged to Rathausplatz since the stock exchange building was demolished.
Individual evidence
- ^ Stock exchange and money at ARD.de: History of the share
- ^ Augsburg City Archives: Exhibition Photography in Augsburg 1839–1900
- ↑ Bayerischer Rundfunk: History of the BR
Coordinates: 48 ° 22 ′ 7.5 ″ N , 10 ° 53 ′ 52.8 ″ E