Augsburg Facts for Kids

Augsburg is a city in the South of Germany, in the state of Bavaria. It has about 272,000 inhabitants and a university. It was founded in the Roman age. In the time of Renaissance (after the Middle Ages) a family of bankers, the Fuggers, became very rich and powerful in Augsburg.

The Protestant Augsburg Confession was made in 1530.

In 1555, a peace agreement called The Peace of Augsburg between Catholics and Protestants was signed in Augsburg.

Augsburg has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).

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Silver coin: 1 conventionsthaler Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1765
Panorama of Augsburg, 1493
Perlach market place in 1550.
Early 18th century map of Augsburg and surrounding area.
A map of Augsburg in 1800.
A Polish woman weeps as she tells American soldiers of her life as a slave labourer for the Nazis. She was liberated in Augsburg when the third largest Bavarian city fell to the Americans (23 April 1945).
Augsburg Town Hall and Perlachturm (left)
The Fuggerei
Fugger's City Palace
The "Stoinerne Ma"
Bei den sieben Kindeln
17th-century "plague panel" of a skull wearing a wreath – depicting the triumph of death. Panels of this kind were placed on the walls of houses to remind and warn the populace against the plague in Augsburg during the 1632-1635 plague epidemic.
The front of the station
Statue of Archangel Michael in Augsburg
KUKA's industrial robots
Holbein's house
FC Augsburg against Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga at the SGL arena in November 2012.
Fünfgratturm tower
Ring of Mercy on the Dom (Cathedral) St. Maria
Augsburg Synagogue
St. Ulrich and St. Afra Cathedral
Plaque commemorating the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification at St. Anne's Church

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