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Herkulesbrunnen

            The largest city on the Romantic Road (and Bavaria's third largest), Augsburg is also one of Germany’s oldest, founded by the stepchildren of Roman emperor Augustus over 2000 years ago. As an independent city state from the 13th century, it was also one of its wealthiest, free to raise its own taxes, with public coffers bulging on the proceeds of the textile trade. Banking families such as the Fuggers and the Welsers even bankrolled entire countries and helped out the odd skint monarch. However, from the 16th century, religious strife and economic decline plagued the city. Augsburg finally joined the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1806.

The Hercules Fountain is next to the Augustus Fountain and Mercury Fountain one of the three magnificent fountains in Augsburg . Der Brunnen steht in der Maximilianstraße , direkt vor dem Haupteingang des Schaezlerpalais . The fountain is located in Maximilianstraße , directly in front of the main entrance of the Schaezlerpalais. The Herkulesbrunnen was modeled in the years 1597 to 1600 by Adriaen de Vries , then cast by Wolfgang Neidhardt in Augsburg and erected in 1602 on the wine market in front of the Siegelhaus. Bis zum Jahre 1809 stand südlich des Brunnens in der Mitte der heutigen Maximilianstraße ein Gebäudezug, der bis zum Ulrichsplatz reichte und der zum Herkulesbrunnen hin mit der Fassade des Siegelhauses ausgerichtet war. Until the year 1809 south of the fountain in the middle of the present-day Maximilianstraße stood a train that reached to the Ulrichsplatz and was aligned with the facade of the Siegelhaus towards the Hercules Fountain.

Taken in: Deutschland / Bayern / Augsburg / Stadtteil Zentrum (show map)

Taken on: February 24, 2018

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