Fountains in the Maximilianstrasse
Fountains in the Maximilianstrasse: Augustus (1589-94), Herkules (1596-1602) and Merkur (1599) fountains., Copyright Regio Augsburg Tourismus GmbH/Christine Pemsl
Sights and highlights Augsburg
Fugger City Palace
Fugger City Palace (1512-15): home and business premises of Jakob Fugger with charming Renaissance-style inside courtyards (Damenhof)., Copyright Regio Augsburg…
St. Mary’s Cathedral
St. Mary’s Cathedral: first documentary mention in AD 823; crypt (10th century) and glass paintings of figures, thought to be…
Augsburg Christmas Market
Perhaps the most beautiful Christmas market in Germany on the town hall square and in the pedestrian zone
Open-air stage at the Red Gate Augsburg
With over 2,100 seats, the Freilichtbühne am Roten Tor is one of the largest open-air stages in southern Germany and…
Schaezler Palace
Schaezler Palace (1765-70); impressive secular Baroque building with wonderful staircase and Rococo banqueting hall.
St. Afra Diocesan Museum
The St. Afra Diocesan Museum: where you can experience seventeen hundred years of history. Excavations from Roman times, textiles from…
Bert Brecht Memorial Museum
Bert Brecht Memorial Museum: a survey of the life and works of Bertolt Brecht; documentation covering the Augsburg years.
Museum of the Augsburg Puppet Theatre
The performances of the puppet theater take place on the first floor. Jim Knopf, Urmel, Sams, Kater Mikesch and many…
St. Ulrich and St. Afra
St. Ulrich and St. Afra: originally an Abbey church (1474); late Gothic basilica (15th / 16th centuries) with onion tower…
Natural history museum
Natural history museum with planetarium, Copyright Siegfried Kerpf, Copyright Siegfried Kerpf
Town Hall and Golden Hall
Town Hall (1615-20): one of the most attractive secular Renaissance buildings north of the Alps, built by Elias Holl; magnificent…
Glass Palace
H2 Centre for Contemporary Art in the Glass Palace., Copyright Museum Walter, Copyright Museum Walter
St. Anna Augsburg
St. Anna (1321, extended in the 15th century): former Carmelite monastery church with Gothic wall decorations and valuable paintings (Lucas…
Fugger and Welser Museum
Fugger and Welser Museum. This newly opened museum, in the extensively renovated Renaissance building of the ‘Wieselhaus’, enables visitors to…
Perlachturm
Perlachturm (11th / 12th centuries): 70 m high tower with lantern belfry and ‘Welscher Haube’ roof by Elias Holl (1614-16).
Leopold Mozart House
Mozart House: reopened on 27 January 2006, the renovated house contains an impressive presentation on Leopold Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus and…
Maximilian Museum
Maximilian Museum with collection on the cultural and municipal history of Augsburg; local works of art in gold and silver.
UNESCO World Heritage Site Water Management System of Augsburg
Augsburg Water Management System (2019). Augsburg’s water management system is unique in the world and an iconic example of progress,…
Roman Museum
Roman Museum with archaeological discoveries from Augsburg and the Bavarian-Swabian region covering prehistory, the Roman Age and the Early Middle…