Fuggerei

Known as the "Town within a Town". Founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Rich and his brothers as the world's first social settlement for hardworking, honest but impoverished citizens who were Catholic. The settlement comprises 67 two-storey structures housing 147 appartments, a church and a simple, elegant fountain. The yearly rent is, to this day, one Rhinish Gulden -equivalent to about DM 1,72. Daily recitation of The Lord´s Prayer for the founders remains part of the house rules.

St. Anna

Founded in 1321 by Carmelite monks as a monastery and church. Enlarged at the end of the 15th c. and redesigned between 1747 and 1749). The Goldsmith's chapel, with its gothic murals was added in 1420-1496. Later conversion into a Lutheran church. The burial chapel of the Fuggers is considered the earliest example of Renaissance architecture in Germany. There are valuable paintings by Lukas Cranach and Jörg Breu, the pulpit is by Heinrich Eichler and the spire(1607) by Elias Holl. A documentation of the beginnings of the Reformation in Augsburg can be found in the "Luther Staircase".

Sts. Ulrich & Afra

There are two churches, both named Ulrich and Afra. One is Roman Catholic, the other Lutheran--the duality is a result of the Peace of Augsburg concluded in 1555 between Catholics and Protestants. Construction of the larger structure begun in 1474 with the abbey church of the Benedictine monks. Choir with three massive altars and the Crucifixion altar completed in 16th/17th c. Onion-domed tower is 93 m high. Late gothic basilica richly appointed in Renaissance and Baroque styles: an elaborate wrought-iron grille, numerous works of art, and the burial vaults of Augsburg's patron saints Afra, Ulrich and Simpert.