kidzsearch.com > wiki
Augsburg
KidzSearch Safe Wikipedia for Kids.
From top: Perlachturm (left) and Augsburg Town Hall (right), Maximilian Museum, Fuggerei and Augsburg Cathedral. | ||||||
| ||||||
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Text' not found. | ||||||
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Text' not found. | ||||||
Location of Augsburg
Lua error in Module:Infobox_mapframe at line 118: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
| ||||||
| Coordinates: Lua error in Module:Coordinates at line 492: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). | ||||||
| Country | Germany | |||||
| State | Bavaria | |||||
| Admin. region | Swabia | |||||
| District | Urban district | |||||
| Government | ||||||
| • Lord mayor (2020–26) | Eva Weber[1] (CSU) | |||||
| Area | ||||||
| • Town | 146.84 km2 (56.70 sq mi) | |||||
| Elevation | 494 m (1,621 ft) | |||||
| Population (2016-12-31)[2] | ||||||
| • Town | 289,584 | |||||
| • Density | 1,972.11/km2 (5,107.73/sq mi) | |||||
| • Metro | 885,000 | |||||
| Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Text' not found. | ||||||
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) | |||||
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) | |||||
| Postal codes | 86150–86199 | |||||
| Vehicle registration | A | |||||
| Website | www | |||||
Augsburg (UK /ˈaʊɡzbɡ/ OWGZ-burg,[3] U.S. /ˈɔːɡz-/ AWGZ--,[4] German: [ˈaʊksbʊʁk] (
listen); Swabian German: Augschburg) is a city in the South of Germany, in the state of Bavaria. It has about 272,000 inhabitants and a university. It was founded in the Roman age. In the time of Renaissance (after the Middle Ages) a family of bankers, the Fuggers, became very rich and powerful in Augsburg.
The Protestant Augsburg Confession was made in 1530.
In 1555, a peace agreement called The Peace of Augsburg between Catholics and Protestants was signed in Augsburg.
Augsburg has a humid continental climate (Dfb in the Köppen climate classification).
References
- ↑ Liste der Oberbürgermeister in den kreisfreien Städten, Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik, accessed 19 July 2021.
- ↑ "Fortschreibung des Bevölkerungsstandes" (in German). Bayerisches Landesamt für Statistik und Datenverarbeitung. January 2018. https://www.statistikdaten.bayern.de/genesis/online?sequenz=tabelleErgebnis&selectionname=12411-001.
- ↑ "Augsburg". Oxford Dictionaries. Oxford University Press. https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/Augsburg.
- ↑ "Augsburg". Merriam-Webster Dictionary. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Augsburg.
Other websites
Media related to Augsburg at Wikimedia Commons
| |||||||||||||||||
.svg){kind=small}
This short article about a place or feature can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it.
|
|
