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The text related to the cultural heritage 'Water Management System of Augsburg' has mentioned 'City' in the following places:
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| Augsburg (UK: /xcbx88axcax8axc9xa1zbxc9x9cxcbx90rxc9xa1/ OWGZ-burg,[2] US: /xcbx88xc9x94xcbx90xc9xa1z-/ AWGZ-,[3] German: [xcbx88axcax8aksbxcax8axcax81k] (listen); Swabian German: Augschburg) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around 50xc2xa0km west of Bavarian capital Munich. | WIKI |
| It is a university town and regional seat of the Regierungsbezirk Schwaben with an impressive Altstadt (city centre). | WIKI |
| It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, with 885,000 in its metropolitan area. | WIKI |
| After Neuss and Trier, Augsburg is Germany's third oldest city, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus. | WIKI |
| The city played a leading role in the Reformation as the site of the 1530 Augsburg Confession and 1555 Peace of Augsburg. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Geography 1.1 Suburbs and neighbouring municipalities 2 History 2.1 Early history 2.2 Augsburg Confession 2.3 Witch hunts 2.4 Thirty Years' War 2.5 Guilds 2.6 Nine Years' War 2.7 Fugger and Welser monopolies 2.8 End of Free Imperial City status 2.9 Industrial revolution 2.10 Second World War and Cold War 3 Politics 3.1 Municipality 3.2 Town Council 3.3 Members of the Bundestag 4 Climate 5 Main sights 5.1 Urban legends 5.1.1 Goddess Cisa and the Stadtpir 5.1.2 The Stoinerne Ma 5.1.2.1 Bei den sieben Kindeln 5.1.3 Lazarethe plague houses 6 Incorporations 7 Population 7.1 Historical development 8 Twin towns xe2x80x93 sister cities 9 Transport 9.1 Roads 9.1.1 Public transport 9.1.2 Intercity bus 9.2 Railway 9.3 Air transport 10 Economy 10.1 Major companies 10.2 Water Management System 11 Education 12 Media 13 Notable people 14 Sports 15 Local city nicknames 16 See also 17 Notes 18 References 19 Bibliography 20 External links | WIKI |
| The oldest part of the city and the southern quarters are on the northern foothills of a high terrace, which has emerged between the steep rim of the hills of Friedberg in the east and the high hills of the west. | WIKI |
| The Augsburg city forest and the Lech valley heaths today rank among the most species-rich middle European habitats. | WIKI |
| The city itself is also heavily verdant. | WIKI |
| As a result, in 1997 Augsburg was the first German city to win the Europe-wide contest Entente Florale for Europe's greenest and most livable city. | WIKI |
| Mixed Imperial City of AugsburgParitxc3xa4tische Reichsstadt Augsburg1276xe2x80x931803(Occupied by Sweden 1632xe2x80x9335) Coat of arms of Augsburg before 1985 StatusMixed Imperial Cityxc2xa0[de](State of the Holy Roman Empire)CapitalAugsburgGovernmentRepublicHistorical eraMiddle Agesxe2x80xa2xc2xa0Bishopric established 4th centuryxe2x80xa2xc2xa0Bishopric gained Imperial immediacy c. 888xe2x80xa2xc2xa0City gained immediacy 1276xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Diet of Augsburg:Confessio Augustana 1530xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Joined Schmalkadic League 1537xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Peace of Augsburg 1555xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Occupied by Sweden 1632xe2x80x9335xe2x80xa2xc2xa0Mediatised to Bavaria 1803 Preceded by Succeeded by Prince-Bishopric of Augsburg Kingdom of Bavaria | WIKI |
| The Fugger family donated the Fuggerei part of the city devoted to housing for needy citizens in 1516, which remains in use today. | WIKI |
| Following the Peace of Augsburg in 1555, after which the rights of religious minorities in imperial cities were to be legally protected, a mixed Catholicxe2x80x93Protestant city council presided over a majority Protestant population; see Paritxc3xa4tische Reichsstadt. | WIKI |
| Religious peace in the city was largely maintained despite increasing tensions until the Thirty Years' War, which started 1618 and lasted until 1648. | WIKI |
| During the Swedish occupation and the siege by Catholic troops the population of the city was reduced from about 70,000 to about 16,000. | WIKI |
| Diseases such as typhus and the Black Death ravaged the city. | WIKI |
| The prolific printers of Augsburg also made the city the largest producer of German-language books in the Holy Roman Empire. | WIKI |
| The city rapidly became a creative centre for sculptors and musicians. | WIKI |
| In 1817, the city became an administrative capital of the Oberdonaukreis, then administrative capital in 1837 for the district Swabia and Neuburg. | WIKI |
| Augsburg was historically a militarily important city due to its strategic location. | WIKI |
| She was liberated in Augsburg when the third largest Bavarian city fell to the Americans April 23, 1945. | WIKI |
| The Infanterie Regiment 40 remained in Augsburg until the end of the war, finally surrendering to the United States when on 28 April 1945, the U.S. Army occupied the city. | WIKI |
| The city and its Messerschmitt works were bombed on three occasions during the war. | WIKI |
| Collateral damaged included the destruction of just under 25% of all homes in the city and the deaths of several hundred people. | WIKI |
| The American military presence in the city started with the U.S. 5th Infantry Division stationed at FLAK Kaserne from 1945 to 1955, then by 11th Airborne Division, followed by the 24th Infantry Division, U.S. Army VII Corps artillery, USASA Field Station Augsburg and finally the 66th Military Intelligence Brigade, which returned the former Kaserne to German hands in 1998. | WIKI |
| Fugger's City Palace | WIKI |
| (free admission) Eiskanal, the world's first artificial whitewater course (venue for the whitewater events of the 1972 Munich Olympics) Dorint Hotel Tower Childhood home of Bertolt Brecht The Augsburg Botanical Gardens (Botanischer Garten Augsburg) Maximillian Museum Bahnpark Augsburg home of 29 historic locomotives, blacksmith, historic roundhouse 3 magnificent renaissance fountains, the Agustus Fountain, Mercury Fountain and Hercules Fountain from 15th century, build for the 1500 anniversary of city foundation Walter Art Museum at the Glas Palast ("Glas-Palace") Roman Museum located in the former Monastery of St. Margaret (closed at the moment due to risk of collapsing). | WIKI |
| Cisa and the Stadtpir came to represent the prosperity of the city. | WIKI |
| Metalworks produced in the city were also stamped with the Stadtpir. | WIKI |
| According to the legend, it is the baker "Konrad Hackher" who, during a long siege of the city, baked bread from sawdust and threw it into the ditch clearly visible for the besiegers over the city wall. | WIKI |
| Historically, the event belongs to the Thirty Years' War, more precisely to the siege of Augsburg during the years 1634/35, when Catholic Bavarian troops under Field Marshal von Wahl wanted to recapture the city occupied by the Protestant Swedes. | WIKI |
| Thereafter they were opened whenever a plague epidemic occurred in the city. | WIKI |
| As soon as a medical practitioner, such as a barber surgeon, diagnosed the plague the patients were transferred to the plague houses by order of the city council. | WIKI |
| There are seven rail Regionalbahn lines, five tram lines, 27 city bus lines and six night bus lines, as well as several taxi companies. | WIKI |
| The Augsburg tramway network is now 35.5xc2xa0km-long after the opening of new lines to the university in 1996, the northern city boundary in 2001 and to the Klinikum Augsburg (Augsburg hospital) in 2002. | WIKI |
| There is one station for intercity bus services in Augsburg: Augsburg Nord, located in the north of the city. | WIKI |
| The Central Station, built from 1843 to 1846, is Germany's oldest main station in a large city still providing services in the original building. | WIKI |
| Augsburg is a vibrant industrial city. | WIKI |
| A network of canals, water towers, pumping equipment and hydroelectric power stations have provided drinking water and power for the city for centuries. | WIKI |
| An area within the city, called the Fuggerei was set aside for the poor and needy. | WIKI |
| FC Augsburg is a football team based in Augsburg and plays in the WWK ARENA to the south of the city centre. | WIKI |
| The 30,660 capacity arena is easily accessible from the city centre or the adjacent B17 dual carriageway. | WIKI |
| The city is home to a DEL (first-division) ice hockey team, the Augsburger Panther. | WIKI |
| Local city nicknames[edit] | WIKI |
| While commonly called Fuggerstadt (Fuggers' city) due to the Fuggers residing there, within Swabia it is also often referred to as Datschiburg: which originated sometime in the 19th century refers to Augsburg's favorite sweet: the Datschi made from fruit, preferably prunes, and thin cake dough. | WIKI |
| Among younger people, the city is commonly called "Aux" for short. | WIKI |
| The Water Management System of Augsburg is a sustainable system of water management that evolved in successive phases through the Cityxe2x80x99s application of innovative hydraulic engineering, demonstrating an exemplary use of water resources over the course of more than seven centuries. | UNESCO |
| The system includes: the sources of both potable and process water (spring water and river water, respectively) and their network of canals and complex of watercourses that kept the two types of water in strict separation throughout the system; water towers from the 15th to 17th century that housed pumping machinery driven by water wheels and later by turbines to counter the abrupt topographical change presented by the plateau that hosts the historic city centre of Augsburg; a water-cooled butchersxe2x80x99 hall from the early 17th century; a system of three monumental fountains of extraordinary artistic quality; Hochablass Waterworks that represents modern cutting-edge hydraulic engineering of the late-19th century; hydropower stations, and finally the hydroelectric power stations that continue to provide sustainable power. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): The Water Management System of Augsburg illustrates the use of water resources and the production of highly pure water as the basis for the continual growth of a city and its prosperity since the Middle Age. | UNESCO |
| The architectural and technological monuments preserve successive socio-technical ensembles that are vivid testimony to the Cityxe2x80x99s urban administration and management of water that brought pre-eminence in two key stages in human history: the water xe2x80x9cartxe2x80x9d of the Renaissance, and the Industrial Revolution. | UNESCO |
| The integrity of the Water Management System of Augsburg is based on the functional unity and the wholeness of an integrated group of 22 mutually dependent elements, expressed in six typologies of structures that are a testimony to the cityxe2x80x99s long and continuous management of its water system. | UNESCO |