Augsburg (German pronunciation: ( listen)) is a ceity in the sooth-wast o Bavarie, Germany.
It wis a Free Imperial Ceity for ower 500 years.
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View o Augsburg Ceity Haw an ither historical biggins in Augsburg | |
Coordinates: 48°22′N 10°54′E / 48.367°N 10.900°E 10°54′E / 48.367°N 10.900°E | |
Kintra | Germany |
State | Bavarie |
Admin. region | Schwaben |
Destrict | Urban destrict |
Govrenment | |
• Laird Mayor | Kurt Gribl (CSU) |
Area | |
• Total | 146.93 km2 (56.73 sq mi) |
Elevation | 495 m (1,624 ft) |
Population (2022-12-31) | |
• Total | 301,033 |
• Density | 2,000/km2 (5,300/sq mi) |
Time zone | CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2) |
Postal codes | 86150–86199 |
Diallin codes | 0821 |
Vehicle registration | A |
Mixed Imperial City of Augsburg Paritätische Reichsstadt Augsburg | |||||||||
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1276–1803 | |||||||||
Status | Ceity | ||||||||
Caipital | Augsburg | ||||||||
Govrenment | Republic | ||||||||
Historical era | Middle Ages | ||||||||
• Bishopric established | 4th century | ||||||||
• Bishopric gained Imperial immediacy | c. 888 | ||||||||
• Ceity gained immediacy | 1276 | ||||||||
• Diet o Augsburg: Confessio Augustana | 1530 | ||||||||
• Jyned Schmalkadic League | 1537 | ||||||||
• Peace o Augsburg | 1555 | ||||||||
• Occupee'd bi Swaden | 1632–35 | ||||||||
• Mediatisit tae Bavarie | 1803 | ||||||||
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It is a varsity toun an hame o the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben an the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is a urban destrict an hame tae the institutions o the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-lairgest ceity in Bavarie (efter Munich an Nuremberg) wi a population exceedin 280,000 ceitizens. Efter Neuss an Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third auldest ceity, bein foondit bi the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum.
Augsburg is the anerly German ceity wi its awn legal holiday, the Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest, celebratit on August 8 o ivery year. This gies Augsburg mair legal holidays than ony ither region or ceity in Germany.
Augsburg wis the hame o twa patrician faimilies that rose tae great prominence internaitionally an aw, replacin the Medicis as Europe's leadin bankers, the Fugger an the Welser faimilies.
Frae 1266 till 1548, the terms Stadtpfleger (heid o toun cooncil) an Mayor wur uised interchyngeably, or occasionally, simultaneously. In 1548 the title wis feenally fixed tae Stadtpfleger, who officiatit for several years an wis then awairdit the title for life (tho nae langer govrenin), sicweys resultin ramfeesely, in records o twa or mair simultaneous Stadtpfleger.
Efter the transfer tae Bavarie in 1806, Augsburg wis ruled bi a Magistrate wi twa mayors, supportit bi a addeetional cooncil o "Commonty Commissioners": the Gemeindebevollmächtige.
As o 1907, the Mayor wis entitled Oberbürgermeister, as Augsburg haed reached a population of 100,000, as per the Bavarie Gemeindeordnung.
Election results of the Town Council syne 1972 in percent | |||||||||
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Year | CSU | SPD | FDP | Grüne | ödp | DKP/PDS | REP | NPD | ither |
1972 | 44.9 | 46.5 | 2.3 | – | – | 0.7 | – | 0.9 | 4.7 |
1978 | 46.8 | 44.5 | 2.7 | – | – | 0.4 | – | 0.6 | 4.9 |
1984 | 32.9 | 44.9 | 1.3 | 4.2 | – | 0.2 | – | 0.7 | 15.8 |
1990 | 43.1 | 28.4 | 2.5 | 10.8 | – | – | 10.0 | – | 5.2 |
1996 | 44.1 | 29.4 | 1.7 | 10.5 | – | – | 2.8 | – | 11.5 |
2002 | 43.5 | 36.4 | 3.5 | 8.7 | 1.8 | 1.2 | – | – | 4.9 |
2008 | 40.1 | 30.1 | 2.7 | 10.3 | 1.5 | 3.5 | – | – | 11.8 |
Seats 20081 | 25 | 19 | 1 | 6 | – | 22 | – | – | 73 |
1 Local elections on 2 Mairch 2008 22008: Die Linke 3 Pro Augsburg: 6, Freie Wähler: 1
Augsburg is locatit in the Wahlkreis 253 Augsburg-Stadt constituency, which includes Königsbrunn an the Destrict o Augsburg (Landkreis Augsburg).
Christian Ruck o the CSU wis directly electit tae the Bundestag wi 49.2% o the vote in the 16t German Bundestag.
Indirectly electit tae the Bundestag tae adhere tae the Landesliste wur Miriam Gruß for the FDP, Heinz Paula for the SPD an Claudia Roth for Bündnis 90/Die Grünen.
Year | Municipality | Area |
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Julie 1, 1910 | Meringerau | 9.5 km² |
Januar 1, 1911 | Pfersee | 3.5 km² |
Januar 1, 1911 | Oberhausen | 8.6 km² |
Januar 1, 1913 | Lechhausen | 27.9 km² |
Januar 1, 1913 | Hochzoll | 4.4 km² |
Aprile 1, 1916 | Kriegshaber | 59 km² |
Julie 1, 1972 | Göggingen | |
Julie 1, 1972 | Haunstetten | |
Julie 1, 1972 | Inningen |
Year | Population |
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1635 | 16,432 |
1645 | 19,960 |
1806 | 26,200 |
1830 | 29,019 |
December 1, 1871 ¹ | 51,220 |
December 1, 1890 ¹ | 75,629 |
December 1, 1900 ¹ | 89,109 |
December 1, 1910 ¹ | 102,487 |
Juin 16, 1925 ¹ | 165,522 |
Juin 16, 1933 ¹ | 176,575 |
Mey 17, 1939 ¹ | 185,369 |
September 13, 1950 ¹ | 185,183 |
Juin 6, 1961 ¹ | 208,659 |
Mey 27, 1970 ¹ | 211,566 |
Juin 30, 1975 | 252,000 |
Juin 30, 1980 | 246,600 |
Juin 30, 1985 | 244,200 |
Mey 27, 1987 ¹ | 242,819 |
December 31, 1990 | 256.877 |
December 31, 1991 | 259.884 |
December 31, 1992 | 264.852 |
December 31, 1993 | 264.764 |
December 31, 1994 | 262.110 |
December 31, 1995 | 259.699 |
December 31, 1996 | 258.457 |
December 31, 1997 | 256.625 |
December 31, 1998 | 254.610 |
December 31, 1999 | 254.867 |
December 31, 2000 | 254.982 |
December 31, 2001 | 257.836 |
December 31, 2002 | 259.231 |
December 31, 2003 | 259.217 |
December 31, 2004 | 260.407 |
December 31, 2005 | 262.676 |
December 31, 2006 | 262.512 |
December 31, 2007 | 262.992 |
December 31, 2008 | 263.313 |
December 31, 2009 | 263.646 |
December 31, 2010 | 264.708 |
December 31, 2011 | 266.647 |
¹ Census result
Information on the pairtner ceities can foond at www.augsburg.de Archived 2005-12-14 at the Wayback Machine an aw
The main road link is autobahn A 8 atween Munich an Stuttgart.
Public transport is vera well catered for. It is controlled bi the Augsburger Verkehrsverbund (Augsburg transport union, AVV) extendit ower central Swabie. Thare are seiven rail Regionalbahn lines, five tram lines, 27 ceity bus lines an sax nicht bus lines, as well as, several taxi companies.
The Augsburg tramwey netwirk is nou 35.5 km-lang efter the openin o new lines tae the varsity in 1996, the northren ceity boondar in 2001 an tae the Klinikum Augsburg (Augsburg hospital) in 2002. Tram line 6, which runs 5.2 km frae Friedberg West tae Rotes Tor, opened in Dizember 2010.
Augsburg haes sax stations, the Central Station (Hauptbahnhof), Hochzoll, Oberhausen, Morellstraße and Messe. The Central Station, biggit frae 1843 tae 1846, is Germany’s auldest main station in a lairge ceity still providin services in the oreeginal building. It is currently bein modernized and an underground tram station is biggit underneath it. Hauptbahnhof is on the Munich–Augsburg and Ulm–Augsburg lines and is connected bi ICE and IC services tae Munich, Berlin, Dortmund, Frankfurt, Hamburg and Stuttgart. As of December 2007, the French TGV connected Augsburg wi a direct High Speed Connection tae Paris. In addition EC and nicht train services connect tae Amsterdam, Paris and Vienna and connections will be substantially improved bi the creation of the planned Magistrale for Europe.
The AVV operates seiven Regionalbahn lines frae the main station tae:
Stairtin in 2008, the regional services are planned tae be altered tae S-Bahn frequencies an developit lang term as integratit intae the Augsburg S-Bahn.
Till 2005 Augsburg wis servit bi nearbi Augsburg Airport (AGB). In that year aw air passenger transport haes been relocatit tae Munich Airport. Syne then the Airport anerly serves for General aviation an business aviation.
Augsburg is a vibrant industrial ceity. Mony global mercat leaders namely MAN, EADS or KUKA produce heich technology products lik printin seestems, lairge diesel ingines, industrial robots or components for the Airbus A380 an the Ariane carrier rocket. Efter Munich, Augsburg is considered the heich-tech centre for Information an Communication in Bavarie an taks advantage o its lawer operatin costs, yet close proximity tae Munich an potential customers.
Augsburg is hame tae the follaein varsities an colleges:
The local newspaper is the Augsburger Allgemeine first published in 1807. Thare are aseveral local radio stations an a local TV station (a.tv) an aw.
FC Augsburg is a fitbaa team based in Augsburg an plays in the SGL arena. FC Augsburg wis promotit tae Bundesliga in 2011. The new stadium (opened in Julie 2009) hostit gemmes o the 2011 FIFA Weemen's Warld Cup.
The ceity is hame tae a DEL (first-diveesion) ice hockey team, the Augsburger Panther. The oreeginal club, AEV, wis formit in 1878, the auldest German ice sport club an regularly draws aroond 4000 spectators, quite raisonable for German ice hockey. Hame gemmes are played at the Curt Frenzel Stadion: a recently rebuilt (2012-2013) indoor rink an modren stadium. An aw Augsburg is hame tae ane o the maist tradeetional German basebaw clubs, the Augsburg Gators.
For the 1972 Olympic Gemmes in Munich, a Lech River dam protective diversionary canal for river ice wis convertit intae the warld's first airtificial whitewatter slalom course: the Eiskanal an remains a warld-cless venue for whitewatter competeetion an servit as prototeep for twa dozen seemilar foreign courses.
While commonly cried Fuggerstadt (Fuggers' ceity) due tae the Fuggers residin thare, athin Swabie it is aften referred tae as Datschiburg an aw: which oreeginatit sometime in the 19t century refers tae Augsburg's favorite sweet: the Datschi made frae fruit, preferably prunes, an thin cake daich. The Datschiburger Kickers charity fitbaa team (foondit in 1965) reflects this in its choice o team name.
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