Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Augustusbrunnen
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Augustusbrunnen
The Augustusbrunnen is next to the Merkurbrunnen and Herkulesbrunnen one of the three magnificent fountains in Augsburg . It is located in the town hall square and represents the founder of the city, the Roman emperor Augustus . A splendidly forged fountain grid prevents access to the edge of the pool and the water of the fountain.
The Augustus fountain is not directly in front of the Augsburg city hall , but rather in front of the Perlachturm tower . His position in the square comes from the fact that the Rathausplatz was originally much smaller than today. It was not enlarged until the early 1960s to its present dimensions when war ruins were removed.
Augsburger Augustusbrunnen was cast in the years 1588 to 1594 according to models by the Dutch sculptor Hubert Gerhard by the city founder Peter Wagner . The fountain is made of two different materials, marble and bronze. The figure of Augustus is about 2.50 m high and weighs 27 hundredweight . The emperor is depicted as a man of about 50 years. The gesture of the raised right is that of the adlocutio , the solemn address to the army. A laurel wreath adorns the head of the emperor; Laurel as a sign of fame, honor, tranquility and peace. On the tunic reliefs are to be seen, which are to symbolize the characteristics of an emperor: lion heads as a sign of strength, dolphins with trident as a sign of quick decision and tritons , mixed beings of man and fish. At the foot of Augustus is the city arms of Augsburg, the pine cone on a Corinthian capital, and two Capricorn skulls , references to the sign of the zodiac under which Augustus was born.
The inscriptions on this fountain, originally made of inlaid metal letters, were replaced by fire-gilded inscriptions in 1749. The first inscription is dedicated to Emperor Augustus , the founder and benefactor of the city: IMP.CAES.DIVI.F AUGUSTO PARENTI COLONIA AUGUSTA VINDEL. The civil settlement at the confluence of Lech and Wertach , which was created after the Roman conquest of the Alpine foothills by Drusus and Tiberius , probably received the name Augusta Vindelicum under Emperor Tiberius . The optimal preservation method for a bronze certainly offers the accommodation in the interior. The figure of Augustus is the most damaged due to the unfavorable alloy composition compared to the other bronzes on Augustus well. This fact led the city of Augsburg to set up the bronze image in the interior. The fountain column is now crowned by a bronze cast of the Augustus figure, the original is presented in the glass roof-covered courtyard of the Maximilian Museum .
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Augustusbrunnen - Augsburg
Der etwa 300 Jahre alte Augustusbrunnen, der im Herzen von Augsburg gelegen ist, nimmt Bezug auf die Gründung der Stadt durch Kaiser Augustus. Erfahren Sie die Bedeutung der verschiedenen Figuren auf und rund um den üppigen Brunnen vor dem Augsburger Rathaus mit sQRibe.
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Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Schaezlerpalais
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Schaezlerpalais
The Schaezlerpalais is a magnificent baroque palace in Augsburg. The Palace extends far back from the street, encompassing dozens of magnificent rooms, courtyards and gardens.
The gilded, mirrored, ballroom, built between 1765-70) survives intact, and is widely regarded as the most artistically significant Rococo ball room in Germany. The building is a registered historic monument declared by the State of Bavaria.
The palace houses the following art collections
Deutsche Barockgalerie, Southern German paintings of the 17th and 18th century (1st floor)
Karl und Magdalene Haberstock-Stiftung Baroque paintings, e.g. Paolo Veronese, Canaletto, Anthony van Dyck and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (2nd floor)
Staatsgalerie Altdeutsche Meister with paintings from Southern Germany of the 15th and 16th century (in a former monastery [Katharinenkloster]), a subsidiary of Bavarian State Picture Collection (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen)
Temporary exhibition rooms (2nd floor). Adjacent to the building complex, a Baroque garden is open to the public.
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Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Herkulesbrunnen
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Herkulesbrunnen
The Hercules Fountain is next to the Augustus Fountain and Mercury Fountain one of the three magnificent fountains in Augsburg . The fountain is located in Maximilianstraße , directly in front of the main entrance of the Schaezlerpalais. The Herkulesbrunnen was modeled in the years 1597 to 1600 by Adriaen de Vries , then cast by Wolfgang Neidhardt in Augsburg and erected in 1602 on the wine market in front of the Siegelhaus. Until the year 1809 south of the fountain in the middle of the present-day Maximilianstraße stood a train that reached to the Ulrichsplatz and was aligned with the facade of the Siegelhaus towards the Hercules Fountain.
The plant of the Herkulesbrunnens is three-sided. The three-meter high bronze group standing on a strong base plate shows the prototype of all heroes, the muscular, naked and bearded Hercules with a winner's bandage in their curly hair. In his hand, he holds a flame club to slay the seven-headed, scaly and winged monster, the Hydra . According to the legend, Hercules needed the Flame Mace to scorch the roots of the severed heads and prevent the Hydra from spawning new heads. In this way is represented the victory of man over the wild power of water and the power of fire.
Three naiads sit on the cornice-like ledge of the broader lower pillar block. Through their activities, they address the element of the water. One woman wrings a cloth, a second brushes the water out of her hair, a third pours out of a jug of water on the crossed legs. These female figures can also be seen as goddesses of time and fate: Klotho , the spinner of the thread of life, Lachesis , who determines the length of the life thread, and Atropos , who inevitably cuts off the thread. Here, the idea of the thread of life seems to be transferred to that of the vital water. The three depictions of women are those of Giovanni da Bolognavery similar in Florence .
Underneath the protruding clam shells are three men with shells and fish in their hands, identifying them as sea gods. In addition to the muscular men, who only protrude out of the water with their upper body, there are three winged, cocky putti . These boys - a motif known since antiquity - hold geese strangling or stabbing them between their legs. But as the heads of the geese spit out the water in a high arc from this position, and the boys smile, the whole thing gains a somewhat exuberant pull.
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Brechthaus - Augsburg
In einem kleinen Handwerkshaus in Augsburg wurde der einflussreiche Dramatiker Bertolt Brecht am 10. Februar 1898 geboren. Erfahren Sie Alles rund um das schwierige Verhältnis der Stadt zu Brecht und den langwierigen Bau des heutigen Museums mit sQRibe,
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Maximilianmuseum Augsburg
Kunstsammlungen und Museen Augsburg
Das Maximilianmuseum im historischen Zentrum Augsburgs ist ein Publikumsmagnet und wurde 2007 mit dem Bayerischen Museumspreis ausgezeichnet.
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany )
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany )
Augsburg, Bavaria is one of Germany’s oldest cities. The varied architecture in its center includes medieval guild houses, the 11th-century St. Mary's cathedral and the onion-domed Sankt Ulrich und Afra abbey. Key Renaissance buildings are the Augsburger Town Hall with its Golden Hall. The Fuggerhaüser is the seat of a wealthy banking dynasty and the Fuggerei is a 16th-century social housing complex.
The largest city on the Romantic Road (and Bavaria's third largest), Augsburg is also one of Germany’s oldest, founded by the stepchildren of Roman emperor Augustus over 2000 years ago. As an independent city state from the 13th century, it was also one of its wealthiest, free to raise its own taxes, with public coffers bulging on the proceeds of the textile trade. Banking families such as the Fuggers and the Welsers even bankrolled entire countries and helped out the odd skint monarch. However, from the 16th century, religious strife and economic decline plagued the city. Augsburg finally joined the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806.
Shaped by Romans, medieval artisans, bankers, traders and, more recently, industry and technology, this attractive city of spires and cobbles is an easy day trip from Munich or an engaging stop on the Romantic Road, though one with a grittier, less quaint atmosphere than others along the route.
Augsburg lies at the convergence of the Alpine rivers Lech and Wertach and on the Singold. The oldest part of the city and the southern quarters are on the northern foothills of a high terrace, which emerged between the steep rim of the hills of Friedberg in the east and the high hills of the west. In the south extends the Lechfeld, an outwash plain of the post ice age between the rivers Lech and Wertach, where rare primeval landscapes were preserved. The Augsburg city forest and the Lech valley heaths today rank among the most species-rich middle European habitats.
Alot to see in Augsburg such as :
Town Hall, built in 1620 in Renaissance style with the Goldener Saal
Perlachturm, a bell tower built in 989
Fuggerei, the oldest social housing estate in the world, inhabited since 1523
Fugger Palaces, restored renaissance palatial homes of the Fugger banking family
Bishop's Residence, built about 1750 in order to replace the older bishop's palace; today the administrative seat of Swabia
Cathedral, founded in the 9th century
St. Anne's Church
Augsburg Synagogue, one of the few German synagogues to survive the war, now beautifully restored and open with a Jewish museum inside
Augsburg textile and industry museum-or just tim, organises it displays under headings Mensch-Maschine-Muster-Mode.
Schaezlerpalais, a Rococo mansion (1765) now housing a major art museum
St. Ulrich and St. Afra—one church is Roman Catholic, the other Lutheran, the duality being a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants
Mozart Haus Augsburg (where composer's father Leopold Mozart was born and Mozart visited it several times)
Augsburger Puppenkiste, a puppet theatre
Luther Stiege, museum located in a church, that shows Martin Luthers life and different rooms. (free admission)
Eiskanal, the world's first artificial whitewater course (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich Olympics)
Dorint Hotel Tower
Childhood home of Bertolt Brecht
The Augsburg Botanical Gardens (Botanischer Garten Augsburg)
Maximillian Museum
Bahnpark Augsburg home of 29 historic locomotives, blacksmith, historic roundhouse
3 magnificent renaissance fountains, the Agustus Fountain, Mercury Fountain and Hercules Fountain from 15th century, build for the 1500 anniversary of city foundation
Walter Art Museum at the Glas-Palace
Roman Museum located in the former Monastery of St. Margaret (closed at the moment due to risk of collapsing). Renovation is taking place and the museum is expected to reopen in 2017.
Medieval canals, used to run numerous industries, medieval arms production, silver art, sanitation and water pumping
Kulturhaus Abraxas
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Maximilianmuseum - Augsburg
Das Maximilianmuseum am Fuggerplatz beherbergt Goldschmuck, Bronzestatuen, Uhren, wissenschaftliche Instrumente und mehr und ist das älteste Museum in Augsburg. Das Highlight ist der Viermetzhof, an dem sich die Originalplastiken der Augsburger Prachtbrunnen befinden. Entdecken Sie die kunsthistorische Sammlung, die ein detailliertes Bild der Augsburger Geschichte liefert, mit sQRibe.
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Augsburg Perlachturm, Uhrschlag und Glockenspiel
Die Kirche St. Peter am Perlach neben dem Augsburger Rathaus ist sehr alten Ursprungs, 1067 gestiftet. Nach 1182 wurde sie als romanische Hallenkirche neu erbaut. Der westlich anschließende Perlachturm ist nicht in erster Linie Kirchturm, sondern ein Stadtturm ähnlich wie der in Lauingen. Er wurde über romanischem Unterbau 1526 erhöht, nochmals 1614-16 durch Elias Holl (Obergeschosse und Erdgeschoss-Anbauten). Seine Glocken umfassen Stücke von 1388, 1527 (Gregor Löffler) und 1615 (Wolfgang Neidhardt, Augsburg).
Zum Stadtjubiläum 1985 erhielt der Turm das Glockenspiel, das kurz nach 11 und 17 Uhr erklingt.
Wer die gespielten Stücke kennt, bitte um Mitteilung per Kommentar.
Der Schwenk über den Platz zeigt außer dem berühmten Rathaus von Elias Holl (1615-20) auch den etwa gleichzeitigen Neuen Bau, davor den Augustusbrunnen, seitlich sieht man kurz die Domtürme.
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Fuggerei
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Fuggerei
The Fuggerei is the world's oldest social housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Younger (known as Jakob Fugger the Rich) as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed. By 1523, 52 houses had been built, and in the coming years the area expanded with various streets, small squares and a church. The gates were locked at night, so the Fuggerei was, in its own right, very similar to a small independent medieval town. It is still inhabited today, affording it the status of being the oldest social housing project in the world.
The rent was and is still one Rheinischer Gulden per year (equivalent to 0.88 euros), as well as three daily prayers for the current owners of the Fuggerei — the Lord's Prayer, Hail Mary, and the Nicene Creed. The conditions to live there remain the same as they were 480 years ago: one must have lived at least two years in Augsburg, be of the Catholic faith and have become indigent without debt. The five gates are still locked every day at 10 PM.
Housing units in the area consist of 45 to 65 square metre (500–700 square foot) apartments, but because each unit has its own street entrance it simulates living in a house. There is no shared accommodation; each family has its own apartment, which includes a kitchen, a parlour, a bedroom and a tiny spare room, altogether totalling about 60 square metres. Ground-floor apartments all have a small garden and garden shed, while upper-floor apartments have an attic. All apartments have modern conveniences such as television and running water. One ground-floor apartment is uninhabited, serving as a museum open to the public. The doorbells have elaborate shapes, each being unique, dating back to before the installation of streetlights when residents could identify their door by feeling the handle in the dark.
The Fugger family initially established their wealth in weaving and merchandising. Jakob the Rich expanded their interests into silver mining and trading with Venice. Additionally he was a financier and counted the Vatican as a notable client. The family became financial backers of the Habsburg family and he financed the successful election of Charles V as Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire in 1519.
The Fuggerei was first built between 1514 and 1523 under the supervision of the architect Thomas Krebs, and in 1582 Hans Holl added St. Mark's Church to the settlement. Expanded further in 1880 and 1938, the Fuggerei today comprises 67 houses with 147 apartments, a well, and an administrative building. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's great-grandfather, the mason Franz Mozart, lived in the Fuggerei between 1681 and 1694, and is commemorated today by a stone plaque. The Fuggerei was heavily damaged by the bombings of Augsburg during World War II, but has been rebuilt in its original style.
The Fuggerei is supported by a charitable trust established in 1520 which Jakob Fugger funded with an initial deposit of 10,000 guilders. According to the Wall Street Journal, the trust has been carefully managed with most of its income coming from forestry holdings, which the Fugger family favoured since the 17th century after losing money on higher yielding investments. The annual return on the trust has ranged from an after-inflation rate of 0.5% to 2%. The Fugger family foundation is currently headed by countess Maria-Elisabeth von Thun und Hohenstein, née countess Fugger von Kirchberg, who lives at Kirchberg Castle. Currently the trust is administered by Wolf-Dietrich Graf von Hundt.
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Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Augsburg City Hall
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Augsburg City Hall
The Town Hall of Augsburg is the administrative centre of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany, and one of the most significant secular buildings of the Renaissance style north of the Alps. It was designed and built by Elias Holl, Stadtbaumeister (Master Builder of the town), in 1615–1624. Due to its historic and cultural importance, it is protected by the Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict.
On 25 August 1615, the foundation stone of the building was laid by then Stadtbaumeister Elias Holl. The exterior of the building was completed in March 1620, and the interior in 1624. Technologically, the Augsburger Rathaus was a pioneering performance; upon its completion it was the first building in the world with more than six storeys. The rigid elegance of the large stonework was similar to Florence, the cultural and financial capital of Northern Italy, with which the city gladly compared itself. The self-image of the Free Imperial City of Augsburg is represented by two conspicuous ornaments on the large gable at the front of the building: the first is the Reichsadler, or Imperial Eagle of the Holy Roman Empire, representing the town's importance; the second is the large copper pine cone, or Zirbelnuss, which is the symbol of Augsburg.
The view of the Rathaus was almost completely blocked by the stock exchange building built in 1828, until British bombing on the night of 25 February 1944 destroyed the latter. The removal of the remains of the stock exchange in the 1960s finally made it possible to view the Rathaus properly from the town square.
The original Augsburger Rathaus was built in 1385, and it was decided at the beginning of the seventeenth century to complete a simple renovation of it in order to accommodate the Imperial Reichstag, which then sat in the city. In 1609, the town council commissioned the renowned architect, Elias Holl, to draw up a renovation plan for the Gothic building. It was only after six years of work that Holl could produce a plan for the magistrates, but this was rejected by the council, and, to Holl's surprise, he was issued with a new brief: to demolish the old Gothic town hall and erect in its place a beautiful new building.
Inside the Rathaus, Holl built three overlaying halls: on the ground floor, behind the main entrance, is the Lower Fletz, and on the floor above, the Upper Fletz; by far the most impressive room in the building, however, is the double-height Goldener Saal, or Golden Hall, with its magnificent doorways, murals and coffered ceiling. Adjacent to the Goldener Saal are the Fürstenzimmer, or Prince's Rooms, designed as retreats for important guests. The construction cost of the new Rathaus was around 100,000 Guilder.
The visitor enters the Augsburger Rathaus through an inconspicuous door at the front of the building, through a vestibule and into the Lower Fletz, on the ground floor. This monumental hall, with its marble columns and vaulted ceiling, is the main entrance to one of two staircases leading to the upper floors of the Rathaus.
The Upper Fletz, on the second floor, once housed the offices of the Augsburg town council, but since the war has been used as the meeting room of the council. The second floor also has offices of the political groups represented on the council. This part of the Rathaus is not generally open to visitors.
The Goldener Saal, or Golden Hall, is the most impressive of the Rathaus's rooms, and one of the most important cultural monuments of the late German Renaissance. The Hall covers an area of 552 square metres (5,940 sq ft) with a ceiling height of 14 metres (46 ft), and is richly adorned with large doorways, magnificent murals and a coffered ceiling. The interior of the Hall was designed by Johann Matthias Kager, and was not completed until 1643 (the rest of the building was completed in 1624).
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Fuggerei
Am 23.07.2018 waren unsere Schülerinnen und Schüler zu Besuch in der Fuggerei. Der Leon war mit seiner Videokamera dabei und hat einen tollen Film über den spannenden Ausflug gemacht! Guckt einfach mal rein!!
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Museum Lutherstiege | St. Anna, Augsburg
Ein besonderer Ort: Das Museum Lutherstiege
Im ehemaligen Karmeliterkloster St. Anna in Augsubrg ereignete sich Weltgeschichte: Martin Luther wohnte 1518 hier, als er sich unter Todesgefahr endgültig zu seinen 95 Thesen bekannte. Warum geschah dies in Augsburg? Wer waren Luthers Gegner, wer die Freunde? Warum eroberte seine Lehre so schnell das Land? Was hatten Drucker und Künstler damit zu tun? Welche Kriege, welcher Frieden, welche Machtverschiebungen
waren die Folge? Diese Fragen und viele mehr beantwortet das Museum Lutherstiege.
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A special place: The Lutherstiege Museum
The former Carmelite monastery St. Anna was the site of world history in the making: Martin Luther lived here when, in mortal danger, he irrevocably professed his 95 theses. Why did this take place in Augsburg? Who were Luther's opponents, his friends? Why did his doctrine conquer the country so quickly? What did printers and artists have to do with it? What war, what peace, what power shifts resulted? The Lutherstiege Museum answers these questions and many more.
Drei Brunnen in Augsburg
Ein weitverzweigtes Netz von Wasserläufen, Gräben und Kanälen durchströmt die Stadt seit der Römerzeit, treibt Mühlräder, erfrischt die Gärten. Die Versorgung mit Wasser unter Druck erfordert die Anlage von Speichertürmen. Ein Wasserbehälter des Elias Holl ist nahe dem Jakobertor erhalten. Eine weitere Gruppe solcher alter Zweckbauten liegt zwischen dem Heiliggeistspital und dem Roten Tor. Als 1580 Michel de Montaigne nach Augsburg kommt, erklärt er die Stadt zur schönsten Deutschlands. Der Philosoph rühmt die großzügige Anlage, die sauberen Strassen und die vielen prächtigen Springbrunnen.
Der Seigneur beschreibt eine Leitung, die vom Stadtgraben gespeist wird und dazu dient, eine bestimmte Anzahl Räder zu treiben, die mehrere Pumpen in Bewegung setzen und durch zwei Bleiröhren das Wasser eines Brunnens, der dort sehr tief liegt, auf die Höhe eines mindestens fünfzig Fuß hohen Turmes heben. Hier ergießt sich das Wasser in einen steinernen Behälter, sinkt in verschiedenen Röhren wieder hinunter und verteilt sich von da in die Stadt, die durch dieses eine Kunstmittel mit Brunnen reich versehen ist.
In der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek ist das Bildnis des zierlich und schönen Brunnens auf dem Perlach zu Augsburg aus dem 1643 erschienen Werk von Matthias Merian über Schwaben mustergültig digitalisiert.
Ebenso detailscharf und farbrichtig bietet sich dar die Abbildung des schönen, von Marmor und Metall verfertigten Brunnens auf dem Weinmarkt zu Augsburg.
Der Herkulesbrunnen auf der Maximilianstraße vor dem Schaezler - Palais wird um 1600 entworfen von dem in ganz Europa bewunderten Bildhauer Adrian de Vries aus Den Haag. Gegossen wird das öffentliche Prachtwerk an der alten Reichsstraße von Wolfgang Neidhard aus Ulm. Der flämische Meister beginnt noch in Florenz mit der Arbeit, zeichnet und modelliert schon, ehe er nach Schwaben reist. Er liebt verschlungene Gruppen, raffinierte Haltungen. Herkules ringt mit der Hydra, Putti necken Gänse, eine Najade wringt ihr Haar, die andere wiegt den Wasserkrug auf überkreuzten Beinen. Die Oberflächen der bewegten Körper spielen mit dem funkelnden Wasser, verwandeln sich mit den wechselnden Lichtverhältnissen durch ziehende Wolken, wandernden Sonnenstand. Die vergoldeten Reliefs beziehen sich auf die Geschichte der Gründung Augsburgs.
An der Straßeneinmündung zwischen dem Chor der Moritzkirche und dem einstigen Zunfthaus der Weber bindet ein kleiner Genius dem Gott des blühenden Handels die Sandale. Der schlanke Götterbote mit dem Flügelstab erhebt sich, angeregt vom Vorbild des Giovanni da Bologna im Bargello, um in die Lüfte zu entschweben. Der Merkurbrunnen wird nach dem wächsernen Modell von de Vries durch den Erzgießer Neidhardt ausgeführt.
In einer bei der Augsburger Stadtbibliothek bewahrten Rechnung von de Vries an die Ratsherren Mathäus Welser und Bernhard Rehlinger sind für den Merkurbrunnen die drolligen Masken, 2 Hunds-, 2 Medusen- 4 Adlerköpfe, und für den Herkulesbrunnen 3 Löwenköpfe und 3 Tritonenbüsten aufgezählt.
Conrad Buchwald, Adriaen de Vries, Beiträge zur Kunstgeschichte, Leipzig 1899, S. 19)
Der Entwurf zum Augustusbrunnen stammt von dem in Italien gebildeten Niederländer Hubert Gerhard. Den Bronzeguß führt der hiesige Glockengießer Peter Wagner durch. Die Feinarbeit der Ziselierung geht auf die Goldschmiede Gregor Bayr und Jakob Schönauer zurück. Der Augustusbrunnen wird zum 1600jährigen Stadtjubiläum errichtet.
Der Kaiser und legendäre Stadtgründer wendet sich mit entschiedener Geste zum Rathaus, betont die besondere Beziehung zur freien Reichsstadt. Die vier lagernden Figuren am Beckenrand verkörpern die hauptsächlichen Zuflüsse Augsburgs und deren Aufgaben. Sie stellen den Lech dar, auf dem Flößerei und Schiffahrt möglich ist, gefolgt von der Wertach, welche die Mühlen treibt. Der Brunnenbach erlaubt die Fischerei, die Singold fördert den Gartenbau.
Diese drei Brunnen gehören zu den Besten in der ganzen von Giambologna begründeten Gattung; in der dekorativ - monumentalen Wirkung sind sie schlechthin vollkommen; in den Einzelfiguren ist vieles geziert und leer, einige von ihnen, besonders die Wasserjungfrauen am Herkulesbrunnen, besitzen außer ihren formalen Vorzügen eine köstliche Frische des Naturgefühls.
Georg Dehio, Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Bd. III, Süddeutschland, Berlin 1908, S. 45
Wilhelm Bode urteilt, dass der Herkulesbrunnen „durch den Aufbau und die Nebenfiguren eine der schönsten Brunnenanlagen überhaupt sei.
Geschichte der deutschen Plastik, Berlin 1885, S. 232
Augsburg 360°-Video 4K #2
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