fugger city weissenhorn in swabia (bavaria BY)

weissenhorn / weißenhorn is the #2 fugger city in germany (after augsburg). what makes a fugger city interesting? well, the fuggers were probably the riches family on earth in the 16th century, you know? i really liked this beautiful small city and its market square brewery barfüßer in the bavarian disrict schwaben / swabia. unlike today, swabia was a huge historic territory in medieval southwest germany before. 

there is a beautiful medieval city called weissenburg with unesco heritage roman border (limes) in franconian part of bavaria, too. so please do not mix up these two wonderful cities as i do soooo often. will you? 😄

weißenhorn in bayern (bavaria)

old city gate

 fugger castle

the church behind the city gate is next to the castle

the 2nd old city gate on the left

 

 

brewery barfüßer

more pictures here.

anton fugger's castle in babenhausen, BY

babenhausen (bayern, BY), a beautiful small city in the bavarian disrict schwaben / swabia. unlike today, swabia was a huge historic territory in medieval southwest germany before. the most interesting historic remainings in babenhausen? the currently under restauration standing castle of the ultra-rich fugger family. enjoy few pictures 😃

fuggerschloss ~ fugger castle (first mentioned in 1237, bought by anton fugger in 1538)

 

st. andreas church

 

more pictures here.

augsburg

main square in augsburg with town hall (rathaus) and the perlach tower 

we have been at a birthday party in göggingen (southeast part of augsburg) this weekend. the communication was really good and mainly dedicated to the healer movie 'Wunder der Lebenskraft: Eine Erlebnisreise zur Kraft, die in uns wirkt' by stephan petrowitsch.

of course, we welcomed the chance to visit this old, old, old city (2,033 years old as founded in 15 b.C.), which is the 3rd biggest in bavaria after munich and nuremberg. augsburg is part of the bavarian disrict schwaben / swabia. unlike today, swabia was a huge historic territory in medieval southwest germany before.
the most important part of its history is bonded to the fugger family, who were probably the richest people on earth in 15th &16th century.

 göggingen

goggingen

augsburg, ulrichskirche + basilika st. ulrich und afra

 st. anna - augsburg

 schätzlerpalais

 

rokoko hall, schätzlerpalais

fuggerei, the oldest social estate was provided by the fuggers

air strikes bunker from WWII

time for lunch in town hall's cellar. there were many peaceful fans of FC eintracht frankfurt waiting for the bundesliga match against FC augsburg

perlach tower (perlachturm) + ratskeller restaurant

good-bye, augsburg

more pictures here (probably too many)