Augsburg

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The city was founded in 15 BC by Drusus and Tiberius as Augusta Vindelicorum, under the orders of their stepfather Emperor Augustus. This garrison camp soon became capital of the Roman province of Raetia.

Around 120 AD Augsburg became the capital of the Roman province Raetia. Augsburg was sacked by the Huns in the 5th century AD, by Charlemagne in the 8th century, and by Welf of Bavaria in the 11th century, but arose each time to greater prosperity.

# Town Hall, built in 1620 in Renaissance style with the Der Goldene Saal
# Perlachturm, a bell tower built in 1182
# Fuggerei (see above)
# Bishop's Residence, built about 1750 in order to replace the older bishop palace; today the administrative seat of Swabia
# Cathedral, founded in the 9th century
# Schaezlerpalais, a rococo mansion (1765)
# St. Ulrich and St. Afra—one church is Roman Catholic, the other Lutheran, the duality a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants
# Mozart Haus Augsburg (where composer father Leopold Mozart was born there and Mozart visited several times)
# Augsburger Puppenkiste, a very famous marionette theater
# Eiskanal, the world's first artificial whitewater course (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich Olympics).

Transport
Roads

The main road link is autobahn A 8 between Munich and Stuttgart.

Public transport is very well catered for. It is controlled by the Augsburger Verkehrsverbund (Augsburg transport union, AVV) extended over central Swabia. There are seven rail Regionalbahn lines, four tram lines, 27 city bus lines and six night bus lines, as well as, several taxi companies.

The tram network is now 35.5 km-long after the opening of new lines to the university in 1996, the northern city boundary in 2001 and to the Klinikum Augsburg (Augsburg hospital) in 2002. Two more tram lines are under construction, planned to be completed in 2011.

Rail
Augsburg has seven stations. The Hauptbahnhof (main station) built from 1843 to 1846 is Germany’s oldest main station in a large city still providing services in the original building. It is currently being modernized and an underground tram station is built underneath it.

Hauptbahnhof is on the Munich–Augsburg and Ulm–Augsburg lines and is connected by ICE and IC services to Munich, Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. As of December 2007, the French TGV connected Augsburg with a direct High Speed Connection to Paris. In addition EC and night train services connect to Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna and connections will be substantially improved by the creation of the planned Magistrale for Europe.

 

Air transport
Until 2005 Augsburg was served by nearby Augsburg Airport (AGB). In that year all air passenger transport has been relocated to Munich Airport. Since then the Airport only serves for General aviation and business aviation.

Education
Augsburg is home to the following universities and colleges:

* University of Augsburg, founded in 1970
* Hochschule Augsburg (University of Applied Sciences, formerly Fachhochschule Augsburg)

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Media
The local newspaper is the Augsburger Allgemeine first published in 1807. Besides, there are several local radio stations.

The patron saints of Augsburg are Saint Ulrich and Saint Afra. Saint Afra was killed (either beheaded or burned at the stake, accounts differ) by the Romans at Augsburg in 304. An earlier patroness was Zisa, referenced in the 11th century, feast day September 28), possibly an early Germanic goddess and originally the consort of Tyr. In the Roman Catholic Church, Augsburg is the seat of the Diocese of Augsburg.

A key family tourist attraction is the large annual children's party and festivities of 29 September (Michaelmas or St. Michael's Day) held at the Turamichele, where (Archangel Michael) appears in a window on the west side of the city tower (Perlachturm) and fights with the devil.
Augsburg's Lech River White Water Canoeing hosted the 1972 Summer Olympics events and are now open to the public.

Augsburg holds year-long German Mozart Festival concerts and hosts the International Leopold Mozart Violin Competition.

Sports

The city is home to a DEL (first-division) ice hockey team, the Augsburger Panther. The original club, AEV, was formed in 1878, the oldest German ice sport club and regularly draws around 4000 spectators, quite reasonable for German ice hockey.

Home games are played at the Curt Frenzel Stadion: not truly an indoor rink as the sides are open, though a new stadium is in the process of planning.

For the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, a Lech River dam protective diversionary canal for river ice was converted into the world's first artificial whitewater slalom course: the Eiskanal and remains a world-class venue for whitewater competition and served as prototype for two dozen similar foreign courses.

The FC Augsburg is a 2nd Bundesliga football team based in Augsburg and plays in the Impuls Arena. The new stadium (opened in July 2009) also hosts games of the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup.

 

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