Timeline of Augsburg

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany.

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Prior to 16th century

• 14 BCE – Roman colony Augusta Vindelicorum established (approximate date).^[1]
• 5th century CE – Settlement sacked by Huns.^[1]
• 6th century CE - Catholic Diocese of Augsburg established.^[2]
• 778 – Simpert becomes Bishop of Augsburg.
• 788 – Town sacked by forces of Charlemagne.^[3]
• 923 – Ulrich becomes Bishop of Augsburg.
• 952 – Diet of Augsburg (meeting of leaders of Holy Roman Empire) active.
• 989 – Perlachturm built.
• 1065 – Augsburg Cathedral consecrated.^[4]
• 1251 – Dominican Monastery of St. Katharine active.
• 1276 – Augsburg becomes a Free Imperial City.^[1]
• 1300 – Barfüsserkirche (church) founded.^[5]
• 1321 – St. Anna-Kirche (church) founded.^[4]
• 1364 – Three Moors Inn in business (approximate date).^[5]
• 1370 - Public clock installed (approximate date).^[6]
• 1431 – Augsburg Cathedral remodeled.^[4]
• 1472 – Printing press in operation.^[7]
• 1487 - Fuggers Bank established.^[8]
• 1493 – Artist Hans Holbein the Elder active (approximate date).^[4]

16th–18th centuries

• 1500 – Church of St. Ulrich and St. Afra built.^[1]
• 1502 – Catholic Holy Cross Church built.^[4]
• 1509 – Fortunatus (story) published.
• 1515 – Dominikaner-Kirche (church) built.^[4]
• 1517 - Fugger chapel built.^[9]
• 1518 - Fire engine built.^[10]
• 1523 – Fuggerei residential area developed.
• 1530 – Lutheran Confession of Augsburg introduced.^[11]
• 1534 – Augsburg Protestant Cemetery established.
• 1537
  • Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg (city library) founded.^[12]
  • Augsburg joins the Schmalkaldic League.
• 1540 – Augsburger Börse (stock exchange) established.
• 1546 – Boeck house^[4] and Rotes Tor (gate)^[4] built.
• 1573 - Sugar refinery begins operating.^[13]
• 1577 – Imperial Abbey of Saints Ulrich and Afra active.
• 1582 – St. Salvator Jesuit school founded.^[14]
• 1594 – Augustusbrunnen (fountain) created for Maximiliansstrasse.^[5]
• 1599 – Herkulesbrunnen (fountain) created for Maximiliansstrasse.^[5]
• 1607 – Augsburger Zeughaus (armory) built.^[4]
• 1609 - Metzg (butchers' house) built.^[4]
• 1612 – Engravers Lucas and Wolfgang Kilian in business.^[15]
• 1620 – Augsburg Town Hall built.^[1]
• 1631 - Augsburg Art Cabinet sent to Sweden as a gift.^[16]
• 1632 – Swedish occupation begins.^[1]
• 1635
  • Swedish occupation ends.
  • Population: 16,432.
• 1650 – Augsburger Hohes Friedensfest (festival) begins.
• 1703 – Town besieged by Bavarian forces.^[3]
• 1712 – Academy of painting founded.^[3]
• 1765 – Gignoux-Haus built.
• 1770 – Ballroom built in the Schaezlerpalais.^[4]
• 1782 – Dollische bookseller in business.^[17]
• 1786 - August: Air balloon flight of Joseph Maximilian Freiherr von Lütgendorf.^[18]

19th century

• 1805 – 10 October: French in power.^[3]
• 1806
  • 4 March: Augsburg becomes part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.^[1]
  • Population: 26,200.
• 1810 – Allgemeine Zeitung (newspaper) in publication.^[19]
• 1817 – Augsburg becomes an administrative capital of the Oberdonaukreis.
• 1825 – Chapel built in Protestant Cemetery.
• 1833 – Holbein-Gymnasium (school) established.
• 1837 – Town becomes administrative capital for the Swabia and Neuburg district.
• 1840
  • Sander'sche Maschinenfabrik in business.
  • Cotton mill established.^[5]
• 1846 – Augsburg Hauptbahnhof (train station) opens.
• 1847
  • Augsburg Morellstraße station opens.
  • Turnverein Augsburg (sport club) formed.
• 1854 – Maximilian Museum founded.^[4]
• 1858 - Population: 43,616.^[20]
• 1870 – Konigl. Industrieschule (industrial school) established.^[21]
• 1875 – Paar Valley Railway begins operating.
• 1876 – Der Volkswille newspaper in publication.^[22]
• 1878
  • Stadttheater Augsburg (theatre) built.^[5]
  • Augsburger Eislaufverein (ice hockey team) formed.
• 1885
  • Stadtarchiv Augsburg (town archive) building established.^[23]
  • Population: 65,905.^[1]
• 1898 – Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg and Augsburg-Oberhausen Acetylene Factory in business.

20th century

• 1900 – Population: 89,109.^[1]
• 1903 – TSV Schwaben Augsburg (football club) formed.
• 1905 - Population: 94,923.^[24]
• 1907 – FC Augsburg (football club) formed.
• 1910
  • Landsberg Prison established in vicinity of Augsburg.
  • Population: 102,487.^[25]
• 1911 – Oberhausen becomes part of Augsburg.
• 1917 - Augsburg Synagogue built.
• 1919 - Population: 154,555.^[26]
• 1920 – Stadtbücherei Augsburg (public library) founded.
• 1924 – Augsburger Kajak Verein (kayak club) formed.^[27]
• 1926 – Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (Bavarian Aircraft Works) in business.
• 1930 - 8 September: Hitler gives campaign speech.
• 1933 – Gau Swabia (Nazi administrative region) established.
• 1937
  • Augsburg Zoo opens.^[28]
  • Mozarthaus (house museum) established.
• 1938
  • Messerschmitt aircraft manufactory in business.
  • Ice skating rink opens.
  • 10 November: Synagogue destroyed during Kristallnacht.
• 1942 – 17 April: Bombing by Allied forces.
• 1944 – 25–26 February: Bombing by Allied forces.
• 1945 – Schwäbische Landeszeitung newspaper begins publication.^[19]
• 1948
  • Verlagsgruppe Weltbild (publisher) in business.
  • Augsburger Puppenkiste (theatre) opens.
• 1951
  • Rosenaustadion (stadium) opens.
  • Town art collections installed in the Schaezlerpalais.
• 1954 - Fürst Fugger Privatbank established.
• 1956 – United States military 11th Airborne Division stationed in Augsburg.^[29]
• 1961 - Population: 208,659.
• 1969 – Part of Göggingen becomes part of Augsburg.
• 1970 – University of Augsburg founded.
• 1971
  • Augsburg Eiskanal (artificial whitewater river) opens.
  • Augsburg University of Applied Sciences founded.
• 1972
  • Inningen becomes part of Augsburg.
  • Kongresshalle opens.
  • Dorint Hotel Tower built.
• 1977
  • Kulturhaus Kresslesmühle (cultural space) opens.^[30]
  • Romanistentheater (Augsburg) founded.
• 1989 – Sparkassen-Planetarium opens.
• 1996
  • Kulturhaus Abraxas (cultural space) active.
  • S’ensemble Theater founded.
• 1998 – Brechthaus (house museum) opens.

21st century

• 2008 – Kurt Gribl becomes mayor.^[31]
• 2009 – Stadtbücherei Augsburg (public library) building opens.
• 2012 – Population: 272,699.

See also

• Augsburg history
• List of mayors of Augsburg
• Diet of Augsburg
• List of heritage sites in Augsburg

References

1. Britannica 1910.
2. "Chronology of Catholic Dioceses: Germany". Norway: Oslo katolske bispedømme (Oslo Catholic Diocese). Retrieved September 2015.
3. George Henry Townsend (1867), "Augsburg", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.
4. Baedeker 1914.
5. Murray 1903.
6. Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum (1996). History of the Hour: Clocks and Modern Temporal Orders. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-226-15510-4.
7. Henri Bouchot (1890). H. Grevel, ed. The book: its printers, illustrators, and binders, from Gutenberg to the present time. London: H. Grevel & Co.
8. Glyn Davies; Roy Davies (2002). "Comparative Chronology of Money" – via University of Exeter.
9. "Central Europe (including Germany), 1400–1600 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved September 2015.
10. Patrick Robertson (2011). Robertson's Book of Firsts. Bloomsbury. ISBN 978-1-60819-738-5.
11. Benjamin Vincent (1910), "Augsburg", Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (25th ed.), London: Ward, Lock & Co.
12. Julius Petzholdt (1853), "Augsburg", Handbuch Deutscher Bibliotheken (in German), Halle: H.W. Schmidt, OCLC 8363581
13. Ursula Heinzelmann (2008). "Timeline". Food Culture in Germany. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-34495-4.
14. Gernot Michael Müller, ed. (2010). Humanismus und Renaissance in Augsburg [Humanism and the Renaissance in Augsburg] (in German). Walter de Gruyter. ISBN 978-3-11-023124-3.
15. Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts 25, Boston, June 1927, JSTOR 4170056
16. "Central Europe (including Germany), 1600–1800 A.D.: Key Events". Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved September 2015.
17. Allgemeines Adreßbuch für den deutschen Buchhandel ... 1870 (in German). Leipzig: O.A. Schulz. 1870.
18. Richard Holmes (2013). Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-307-90870-4.
19. "Global Resources Network". Chicago, USA: Center for Research Libraries. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
20. "Germany: States of South Germany: Bavaria". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1869.
21. Königliche Museen zu Berlin (1904). Kunsthandbuch für Deutschland (in German) (6th ed.). Georg Reimer.
22. Universitätsbibliothek. "Augsburger Zeitungen" [Newspapers of Augsburg] (in German). Universität Augsburg. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
23. "Aufgaben und Geschichte des Stadtarchivs" (in German). Stadt Augsburg. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
24. "German Empire". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1908 – via HathiTrust.
25. "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1915.
26. "Germany". Statesman's Year-Book. London: Macmillan and Co. 1921.
27. "Augsburger Kajak Verein" (in German). Augsburg. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
28. Vernon N. Kisling, ed. (2000). "Zoological Gardens of Germany (chronological list)". Zoo and Aquarium History. USA: CRC Press. ISBN 978-1-4200-3924-5.
29. "11th Airborne vets return to Germany". United States Army. 2009. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
30. "Porträt und Bilder" (in German). Augsburg: Kulturhaus Kresslesmühle. Retrieved 10 December 2013.
31. "German mayors". City Mayors.com. London: City Mayors Foundation. Retrieved 10 December 2013.

This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.

Bibliography

in English

published in the 17th-19th century

• Thomas Nugent (1749), "Augsburg", The Grand Tour, 2: Germany and Holland, London: S. Birt
• Monsieur de Blainville (1757), "Augsburg", Travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, but especially Italy, Translated by Turnbull, London: John Noon
• "Augsburg". A Geographical, Historical and Political Description of the Empire of Germany, Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Prussia, Italy, Sicily, Corsica and Sardinia: With a Gazetteer. London: John Stockdale. 1800. OCLC 79519893.
• David Brewster, ed. (1830). "Augsburg". Edinburgh Encyclopædia. Edinburgh: William Blackwood.
• Frances Trollope (1838), "Augsburg", Vienna and the Austrians, London: R. Bentley, OCLC 2431804
• Charles Knight, ed. (1866). "Augsburg". Geography. English Cyclopaedia 1. London: Bradbury, Evans, & Co.
• "Augsburg", Bradshaw's Illustrated Hand-book to Germany, London: W.J. Adams & Sons, 1873
• Lewis, "The Roman Antiquities of Augsburg and Ratisbon", in volume xlviii, Archæological Journal, (London, 1891).

published in the 20th century

• "Augsburg". Handbook for Travellers in South Germany and Austria (15th ed.). London: J. Murray. 1903.
• "Augsburg", Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.), New York, 1910, OCLC 14782424
• Joseph Lins (1913). "Diocese of Augsburg". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York.
• "Augsburg", Southern Germany (Wurtemberg and Bavaria) (12th ed.), Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1914, OCLC 2011248
• Franz Grenacher (1968). "Guide to the Cartographic History of the Imperial City of Augsburg". Imago Mundi 22: 85–106. doi:10.1080/03085696808592321. JSTOR 1150439.
• Trudy Ring, ed. (1995). "Augsburg". Northern Europe. International Dictionary of Historic Places. Fitzroy Dearborn. ISBN 978-1-136-63944-9.

in German

• "Augsburg". Topographia Sueviae. Topographia Germaniae (in German). Frankfurt. 1643. p. 8+.
• Paul von Stetten (1779), Kunst-, Gewerb- und Handwerks Geschichte der Reichs-Stadt Augsburg (in German), Augsburg: C.H. Stage
• Augsburgs geschichte. 1826.
• Augsburg. Die Chroniken der Deutschen Städte (in German). 4-5, 22-23, 25, 29, 32. Leipzig: S. Hirzel Verlag. 1865–1917 – via HathiTrust.
• "Augsburg". Brockhaus' Konversations-Lexikon (in German) (14th ed.). Leipzig: Brockhaus. 1896.
• Werner, Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg, (Augsburg, 1900).
• Christian Meyer (1907), Geschichte der Stadt Augsburg (in German), Tübingen: H. Laupp, OCLC 163258088
• P. Krauss und E. Uetrecht, ed. (1913). "Augsburg". Meyers Deutscher Städteatlas [Meyer's Atlas of German Cities] (in German). Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut.

External links

• Links to fulltext city directories for Augsburg via Wikisource
• Europeana. Items related to Augsburg, various dates
• Digital Public Library of America. Items related to Augsburg, various dates

Coordinates: 48°22′00″N 10°54′00″E / 48.366667°N 10.9°E