Culture and sights in Augsburg

Important artists and designers

Portrait of Christoph Fugger ( Christoph Amberger , 1541)

See the list of museums in Augsburg

See list of theaters in Augsburg

The historic old town with the Lechviertel
The magnificent Maximilianstrasse
The picturesque craftsman's yard behind the Heilig-Geist-Spital
The red gate wall with the hidden herb garden and the open-air stage
The Beethoven district with its upper-class houses from the Art Nouveau period
The Thelottviertel , the listed garden suburb between the main train station and Wertach
The textile district, unique in industrial history

The daily open city market with its meat hall, food hall and the farmers' market

Weberhaus (14th century / 1913)
Fugger houses with Damenhof (1515)
Fuggerei (1525)
Köpfhaus (1578/1739)
Former Gießhaus, now A. B. von Stettensches Institute (1602)
Armory (1607)
City butcher (1609)
Former Imperial Department Store (1611/1700)
Former High school near St. Anna with a memorial for the historic Augsburg city library in the Annahof (1613)
New building on Rathausplatz (1614)
Augsburg Town Hall with Golden Hall (1620)
Heilig-Geist-Spital with Augsburg doll box (1631)
Former Prince-Bishop's Residence (1752)
Gignoux house (1765) with "Komödie" (closed for years due to disrepair)
Small Golden Hall in the former Jesuit College St. Salvator (1765)
Schaezler Palace (1767)
Roeck House (1770)
Martini Palace (1784/1897)
Bothmersches Palais (1800)
City Theater (1877/1956)
Kurhaus with the former Hessingsch economic and sanatorium in the Göggingen district (1886 and 1869)
Old City Bath (1903)
Bismarck Tower (1905)
Rosenaustadion (1951)
Sports hall Augsburg (1965)
Hotel tower with congress hall in Wittelsbacher Park (1972)

View of the Fischertor from outside the city wall

Clockwise along Augsburg's old town , starting with the Fischertor in the north:

Former Schülesche calico factory (1772)
Central station based on plans by Friedrich Bürklein (1846)
Former Director's villa of Johannes Haag AG in the textile district (1892)
Former Augsburg worsted spinning mill in the textile district (1893/1912)
Factory palace in the textile district (1898)
Former Slaughterhouse and cattle yard with calf market hall in the textile district (1900)
Glass Palace in the Textile Quarter (1910)
Former Ackermann sewing thread factory in the Göggingen district (1910)
Former Director's villa of the Silbermann company (1911) with Silbermannpark
Weir system Hochablass (1912)
Former Augsburg gasworks in the Oberhausen district (1915)

Local recreation area Augsburger Müllberg

March: Gögginger Spring Festival (folk festival)
March: Augsburg Film Festival with a children's film festival, short film days and independent film days
March / April: Osterplärrer (Swabia's largest folk festival)
March / April: Spring festival between Vogel- and Jakobertor
April / May: International Violin Competition Leopold Mozart (every 3 to 4 years)
May: German Mozart Festival (every 2 years)
June: MAX (culture and street festival in Augsburg's old town )
July: Historical Citizens' Festival (every 2 years)
July / August: Jakober Kirchweih
July / August: Augsburg Jazz Summer
August 7th: Feast of St. Afra
August 8: Augsburg Peace Festival (public holiday in the Augsburg district)
August / September: Herbstblärrer
September 29: Michaelitag on the Rathausplatz with " Turamichele "
October: Lechhauser Kirchweih
October: Autumn festival between Vogel- and Jakobertor
December: Augsburg Christkindlesmarkt on Rathausplatz

Augsburger Zwetschgendatschi (a sheet cake made from yeast dough with halved plums, to which Augsburg also owes the nickname "Datschiburg")
Schupfnudeln (also "Buabaspitzle"), Allgäu Kässpätzle and other Swabian specialties

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