History

  • 15 BC - Drusus and Tiberius, step sons of Emperor Augustus set up a military camp on the site of the present-day city
  • AD 304 - Martyr's death of St. Afra
  • 955 - Battle of Lechfeld
  • 1156 - First Augsburg city charter
  • 1276 - Second Augsburg city charter
  • 1316 - Augsburg granted Free Imperial Town status
  • 1519 - Construction of the Fuggerei
  • 1530 - Confessio Augustana (Augsburg Confession)
  • 1555 - Religious Peace of Augsburg
  • 1650 - Augsburg Festival of Peace
  • 1770-72 - Johann Heinrich Schüle founds the first continental calico manufactory
  • 1806 - Incorporation of the Imperial City of Augsburg in the Kingdom of Bavaria
  • About 1816 - Augsburg is Bavaria's leading banking centre: Augsburg Bourse
  • 1840 - Completion of the Munich-Augsburg railway line; the first train runs
  • 1929 - Open-air theatre opened
  • 1970 - Augsburg University founded
  • 1985 - 2000th anniversary of the city, Golden Hall in the Town Hall restored
Highlights

Tourist-Information
Rathausplatz
86150 Augsburg
Phone +49 (0) 821 50207-0
Fax + 49 (0) 821 50207-45
www.augsburg-tourismus.de
tourismus@regio-augsburg.de

Augsburg - Group Travel Offer

Of trade, money and power

Guided tour through the Fugger and Welser Museum: Why did Augsburg develop into one of the most important European trading metropolises 500 years ago?

We have found 5 events for you
from 27 Nov

27.11.2023 – 24.12.2023

Augsburg Christmas Market

Perhaps Germany’s most beautiful Christmas Market on the ‘Rathausplatz’ - town hall square - and in the pedestrian zone

from 31 Mar

31.03.2024 – 14.04.2024

Augsburg’s Spring ‘Plärrer’

Swabia’s largest Public Festival and Fair at the Kleiner Exerzierplatz

from 03 Jul

03.07.2024 – 07.08.2024

Augsburg Summer Jazz Festival

Summer-evening concerts in the Botanical Gardens, together with concerts in various pubs and bars with international stars of the jazz scene

from 23 Aug

23.08.2024 – 08.09.2024

Augsburg’s Autumn ‘Plärrer’ Fair

Swabia’s largest Public Festival and Fair at the Kleiner Exerzierplatz

from 26 Nov

26.11.2024 – 24.12.2024

Augsburg Christmas Market

Perhaps Germany’s most beautiful Christmas Market on the ‘Rathausplatz’ - town hall square - and in the pedestrian zone