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Augsburg - Germany
The university town Augsburg is a circle free town in the southwest of Bavaria. Augsburg is the second eldest town of Germany to Trier. It is capital and seat of the government of Swabia as well as the district Swabia and the District Office Augsburg. The town has got about 260,000 inhabitants with principal domicile or approx. 276,000 inhabitants with side place of residence, and is to Munich and Nuremberg at third place under the cities of the free state with that in Augsburg at present. Your name originates from the Roman settlement Augusta Vindelicorum, founded by the Roman emperor Augustus.
Augsburg is the only town of Germany which has a legal holiday of its own, the high Augsburg peace festival on August 8th. Augsburg has more legal holidays than any other region or town in Germany with that.
The town is diocesan town of the Roman Catholic diocese Augsburg and forms one of the 23 upper centers of the Free State of Bavaria. Larger cities of near Augsburg are Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart. Became Augsburg in the year 1906 with exceeding the population of 100,000 to the city.
Story of Augsburg
Augsburg was the largest Roman settlement north of the Alps. As a date of the foundation of Augsburg 15 become . V Chr. indicated. This year a legion store which served as a supplies depository later, too was set up to Oberhausen in the field of today's district. Augsburg is the second eldest town of Germany to Trier according to this foundation date.
By analogy with the stores come into being before the turn of an era the settlement Augusta Vindelicorum formed this one in the year 122 n, . Chr in the first century. the Roman town charter received. Augsburg was . n Chr as of about 95/100. Capital of the Roman province Raetien which extended to to Oberitalien. It is unknown Augsburg provincial capital got when exact, Kempten in the Allgäu of still till into the late one first century n the archeological results indicate at this that . Chr. this function had.
According to new researches the Neckar ode woods limes only in 98 became . n Chr. making of the Roman highway Mainz bath Cannstatt-Augsburg safeguarded with this for this year at the same time, created under emperor Trajan. A connection of these two strategic construction projects with the movement of the capital of the province Rätien from Kempten to Augsburg seems reasonable, however, isn't covered positively till now.
After the partition of the Roman province Raetia in the year 294 n . Chr. did Augsburg become capital of the province Raetia Secunda? With the end of the Roman power at 450 n . Chr. Augusta Vindelicorum deteriorated as of the 5th century.
Something southern of the bishop town formed a merchant settlement in the 12th century. South of Augsburg history was written in the Lech field 955 when emperor Otto I. defeated the Hungarians striving westward with the help of bishop Ulrich of Augsburg.
In the year 1156 Augsburg received the town charter by emperors Friedrich Barbarossa. The right of the town to leadership of a seal and to taxation of its citizens is occupied as of 1251. King Rudolf of goods castle gave the empire liberty to bishop city and merchant city of 1276. Augsburg is governed by the patricians in the consequence. 1368 rebellion of the workmen and introduction of a guild constitution. The guilds are involved in the town government to 1547.
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