I'm not sure what that means , but perhaps it's why you don't see people wearing Bavarian togs in Augsburg as you do in Munich. Like Munich, it's a very affluent looking place. The bird-brained can keep themselves amused windowshopping handbags with fancy names, etc. Bat-brained as ever, I looked at other things. Augsburg is handsome; its citizens have clearly worked hard over the years to embellish it and keep it embellished, whether with Christian icons or with what appear to be deer skulls.
The shop windows are neat, too. Sorry for the lack of a polarizing filter. Clearly Guinness is good for Augsburg bears. And it's not just pretty. Here, just off Maximilianstrasse, is a brewery "zur goldenen Gans", since some long-distant year that I can't quite read.
The Fugger family was the richest in the world. But in an era before tax write-offs, they set up the first low-cost housing estate founded in , called the Fuggerei. There were 52 houses by , and many more were built later. With the addition of electricity, running water, etc. Some of them survived the war; some didn't and were reconstructed; the houses are still worth seeing. Views of the interior of the Dom cathedral.
The stained glass window of the prophet Daniel is one of a set of five dating from the s. They're not in a museum, either, but are mounted in the clerestory one of the bits near the top. What most impressed me were the romanesque doors, which have been moved inside for safety. There didn't seem any point in taking photos of them -- photos that would certainly be fourth-rate at best. The pride of Augsburg is within the Rathaus: the Goldener Saal , so called as it's encrusted with a pile of gold.
Originally built in the early seventeenth century, this gives a powerful impression of being a huge and uninviting room encrusted in the s with a pile of gold. Pace the writers of guidebooks, it was not "restored", at least in any normal sense of that word.
