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Augsburg, Germany

Augsburg
View of Augsburg City Hall and other historical buildings in Augsburg
View of Augsburg City Hall and other historical buildings in Augsburg
Flag of Augsburg
Flag
Coat of arms of Augsburg
Coat of arms
Augsburg   is located in Germany
Augsburg
Augsburg
Coordinates: 48°22′N 10°54′E / 48.367°N 10.900°E / 48.367; 10.900Coordinates: 48°22′N 10°54′E / 48.367°N 10.900°E / 48.367; 10.900
Country Germany
State Bavaria
Admin. region Swabia
District Urban district
Government
 • Lord Mayor Kurt Gribl (CSU)
Area
 • Total 146.84 km2 (56.70 sq mi)
Elevation 494 m (1,621 ft)
Population (2015-12-31)
 • Total 286,374
 • Density 2,000/km2 (5,100/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 86150–86199
Dialling codes 0821
Vehicle registration A
Mixed Imperial City of Augsburg
Augsburg
Free Imperial City of the Holy Roman Empire
1276–1803


Coat of arms of Augsburg before 1985

Capital Augsburg
Government Republic
Historical era Middle Ages
 •  Bishopric established 4th century
 •  Bishopric gained Imperial immediacy c. 888 1276
 •  City gained immediacy 1276
 •  Diet of Augsburg:
Confessio Augustana
1530
 •  Joined Schmalkadic League 1537
 •  Peace of Augsburg 1555
 •  Occupied by Sweden 1632–35 1803
 •  Mediatised to Bavaria 1803
Preceded by
Succeeded by
Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg
Kingdom of Bavaria
Largest groups of foreign residents
Nationality Population (2013)
 Turkey 12,618
 Italy 3,868
 Romania 3,201
 Croatia 2,238
 Poland 2,117
 Greece 1,955
 Russia 1,726
 Iraq 1,587
 Ukraine 1,526
 Bosnia and Herzegovina 1,489
 Hungary 1,416

Augsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʔaʊ̯ksbʊʁk]; Bavarian: Augschburg) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany. It was a Free Imperial City for over 500 years.

It is a university town and home of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben and the Bezirk Schwaben. Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 286,000 citizens. After Neuss and Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third oldest city, being founded by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus.

Augsburg is the only German city with its own legal holiday, the , celebrated on August 8 of every year. This gives Augsburg more legal holidays than any other region or city in Germany.

Augsburg was the home of two patrician families that rose to great prominence internationally, replacing the Medicis as Europe's leading bankers, the Fugger and the Welser families.

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.


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