Travel Germany - Visiting Perlach Tower in Augsburg
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In the historic center of Augsburg, Germany stands a beloved landmark of this ancient community.
The bell tower section of this striking edifice known as Perlach was added in 1182; the original structure was built in the 10th century and served as a guard tower.
A renowned symbol of Augsburg, the Perlach tower stretches two hundred and thirty feet from the ground.
Two hundred and sixty one steps up the tower a brilliant panorama of Augsburg and the surrounding area emerges.
Each year the city of Augsburg holds the Perlachturm Run, a race to see who can reach the top of the tower the quickest.
During the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels, a small door opens on the hour, every hour, showcasing St. Michael thrusting his spear into a demon.
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Perlach Tower
Places to see in ( Augsburg - Germany ) Perlach Tower
The 70-metre-tall Perlachturm is a tower in the central district of Augsburg, Germany. Originally built as a watchtower in the 10th century, it is nowadays part of an ensemble with the City Hall of Augsburg, a landmark of the Reichsstadt.
The exact origin of the name Perlachturm is unknown, with several different theories attempting to explain it. Of the three constituent parts of the name, Per, lach and turm, only the latter presents no controversy and means Tower. The conventional wisdom holds that the first two parts originated from the medieval fairs involving bears on the central square.
In Old High German, Per means bear and lach describes a show, or fair. An information plaque on the tower itself says that it came from the Latin perlego (read through). There are 258 steps to the observation deck.
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Augsburger Engelsspiel
Jeden Freitag, Samstag und Sonntag um 18 Uhr, verwandelt sich das Augsburger Rathaus zu einem riesigen Adventskalender. Dann nämlich präsentieren 24 musizierende Weihnachtsengel in den Fenstern des Renaissance-Gebäudes, frei nach Hans Holbeins berühmtem Gemälde „Santa Maria Maggiore, das beliebte „Augsburger Engelesspiel.
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Augsburg City Hall, Augsburg Zoo, Augsburger Puppentheatermuseum, Botanischer Garten Japan Garten, Cathedral of St. Maria, Church of St. Ulrich and St. Afra, Fuggerei, Herkulesbrunnen, Perlach Tower, Schaezlerpalais, Weberhaus
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.
Best Attractions and Places to See in Augsburg, Germany
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List of Best Things to do in Augsburg, Germany
Augsburger Puppentheatermuseum
Botanischer Garten - Japan Garten
Fuggerei
St. Anne's Church
Perlach Tower
Church of St. Ulrich and St. Afra
Augsburg City Hall (Rathaus)
Cathedral of St. Maria (Dom St. Maria)
Augsburg Zoo
Schaezlerpalais
Perlachturm
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Augsburg, Germany: A bavarian historic city, Part 2
Augsburg is one of the main historic cities in Bavaria, Germany. This video shows one of the landmarks of the city, The City Hall (Rathaus), one of the biggest in Germany and the square facing it, with a statue of the roman emperor August, founder of the city. Then the visit continues through the Karolinenstrasse to the gothic Cathedral (Dom). Through the Frauentorstrasse, where the house of Mozart´s father stands, we reach the gothic St George church with a baroque tower.
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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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Finally, the nightmare of UK airports is over, and I arrive in Germany, where I am met by Daniel - a very sweet boy in a very fast convertible - and taken to the beautiful town of Augsburg...
Perlachturm Lauf
Ein spontaner Lauf in Augschburg...mit den Uni-Nators!! Den Perlachturm hinauf!!
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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2019 Augsburg City Street Tour. One of Germany’s oldest City.
The largest city on the Romantic Road, 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.
Augsburg, Germany
Video from my trip to Augsburg in August 2010.
Augsburg Cathedral
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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.