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 Two churches of the Holy
Cross by Nemorino
In another part of town there are also two St. Ulrich's churches, in the same colors.
The coexistence of Catholic and Protestant churches and congregations in Augsburg and other "free and imperial cities" was a result of the "Peace of Augsburg" that was negotiated here in 1555, to put an end to religious strife within the loosely-knit "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation".
Under this agreement, all the princes and dukes and other local rulers agreed not to make war against each other for religious reasons. In the countryside, the common people were required to accept the religion of their local ruler, but in the cities both Catholics and Protestants were allowed to have churches and practice their own religion. They didn't like each other, by any means, but they tolerated each other for the sake of keeping the peace. In Augsburg for hundreds of years there was a complicated quota system to ensure that neither side was dominated by the other.
When Leopold Mozart was growing up in Augsburg he was at various times a member of the children's choirs in the Catholic churches of the Holy Cross and St. Ulrich. But he sometimes got into trouble with his Catholic teachers by sneaking over to the Protestant churches to hear their music, too. Leave a Comment Address: Heilig-Kreuz-Straße
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 Ceiling of the Golden Hall by Nemorino
This whole area was heavily damaged in the Second World War, and it wasn't until 1985 that the Golden Hall was completely restored to its original condition.
The hall is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except when it is being used for a concert of other event. Leave a Comment Address: Rathausplatz
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 Perlach Tower by Nemorino
At the foot of this tower there used to be a building where Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gave a concert in 1777, when he was twenty-one years old.
Bertolt Brecht, who was sixteen when the first World War began, had to spend nights up on this tower watching for any signs of air raids. Leave a Comment Address: Karolinenstraße/Perlachberg
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 Theater & sculpture by Nemorino
The difference is that the Wiesbaden theater was not so seriously damaged in the war, and has been carefully restored to its original condition. The theater in Augsburg had already been changed quite a bit by the Nazis in the 1930s, and was then badly damaged by bombings in February 1944. It was rebuilt in a simplified form in the 1950s. The distinctly modern lobby dates from 1990.
The sculpture in front of the building also dates from 1990. It is called "Easter" and was made by an artist named Brigitte Matschinsky-Denninghoff (born 1923 in Berlin). Leave a Comment
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 The Brecht House by Nemorino
He only actually lived here for about half a year, because the house was very small and crowded, and on the ground floor there was a file-cutter's shop with a loud mechanical hammer that was driven by water power from the stream right in front of the house.
So as soon as Brecht's father could afford it they moved to a larger and quieter house in a street called "Bei den sieben Kindeln".
Two years later, in 1900, they moved again, this time to a house in the street which is now called "Bert-Brecht-Straße". It was given this name in 1966 after years of controversy -- Brecht was a Communist, and for this reason numerous people in Augsburg were against naming a street after him, even if he was a famous author. Leave a Comment Address: Auf dem Rain 7Phone: (0821) 324-2779
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 The Fuggerei by Nemorino
The yearly rent was (and still is) less than one Euro in today's money (EUR 0.88, to be more exact) but the tenants were also obliged (and theoretically still are) to recite three prayers each day for Fugger and his family.
The master mason Franz Mozart, great-grandfather of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, lived in the Fuggerei from 1681 to 1694. He wasn't there because of poverty, though, but because he had a job there as head mason of the housing area.
You can walk through the Fuggerei just about any time, at least during the day, and there is also a museum at Mittlere Gasse 13 where you can see an apartment with its original furnishings. Leave a Comment
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 Museum in the Brecht House by Nemorino
In the Brecht House museum there are a number of exhibits showing Brecht's anti-Nazi activities. One of the books in this display case is an American edition, published during the Second World War, called "Six Anti-Nazi One Act Plays" which includes a play by Brecht. Leave a Comment Address: Auf dem Rain 7Phone: (0821) 324-2779
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 Museum in the Brecht House by Nemorino
This quotation is actually from a parable called "The round heads and the pointed heads," which was first performed in Copenhagen in 1936:
Gute Mädchen können innig lieben
wenn man ihnen was verehrt
und der Grund ist: Geld macht sinnlich
wie uns die Erfahrung lehrt.
But there is also a similar passage in "The rise and fall of the city of Mahagonny" (1927). Leave a Comment Address: Auf dem Rain 7Phone: (0821) 324-2779
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 The Mozart House by Nemorino
In 1737, when he was eighteen, Leopold Mozart left Augsburg to enroll in the University of Salzburg, Austria.
In 1747 he got married in Salzburg, which is also where his musically gifted children were born. Leave a Comment Address: Frauentorstraße 30Phone: (0821) 324-3894 and 324-3896
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 In the Augsburg City Hall by Nemorino
One of Bertolt Brecht's stories, Der Augsburger Kreidekreis ("The Augsburg Chalk Circle"), takes place in this Golden Hall. He wrote it in 1940, while he was living in exile in Finland. Leave a Comment Address: Rathausplatz
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