Augsburg

Augsburg
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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
KintraGermany
StateBavarie
Admin. regionSchwaben
DestrictUrban destrict
Govrenment
 • Laird MayorKurt Gribl (CSU)
Area
 • Total146.93 km2 (56.73 sq mi)
Elevation
495 m (1,624 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31)[1]
 • Total301,033
 • Density2,000/km2 (5,300/sq mi)
Time zoneCET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes
86150–86199
Diallin codes0821
Vehicle registrationA
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Mixed Imperial City of Augsburg

1276–1803
StatusCeity
CaipitalAugsburg
GovrenmentRepublic
Historical eraMiddle Ages
• Bishopric established
4th century
c. 888 1276
• Ceity gained immediacy
1276
1530
• Jyned Schmalkadic League
1537
• Peace o Augsburg
1555
• Occupee'd bi Swaden
1632–35 1803
1803
Precedit bi
Succeedit bi
Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg
Kinrick o Bavarie
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Augsburg (German pronunciation: [ˈʔaʊ̯ksbʊʁk] ( listen)) is a ceity in the sooth-wast o Bavarie, Germany. It wis a Free Imperial Ceity for ower 500 years.

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.[2]

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.

  1. Genesis Online-Datenbank des Bayerischen Landesamtes für Statistik Tabelle 12411-003r Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes: Gemeinden, Stichtag (Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011) (Hilfe dazu).
  2. "Stadt Augsburg - Home - Stadt Augsburg". .augsburg.de. 1 Mey 2014. Archived frae the original on 4 Mey 2014. Retrieved 5 Mey 2014.

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