European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 10, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page the stars and stripes 991 Sim Augsburg lures visitors by Julia Edwards Staci correspondent Munich Augsburg repeatedly attacked since the celts founded it and the romans renamed it after Augustus 15 years before the birth of Christ is emerging again from rubble to reclaim the title of the most historic City in the u. S. Zone of Germany. In a 135-mile drive from Munich and Back americans also can see the walled town of Landsberg and the Gas Chambers of  route begins on Landsberger Strasse with the main Railroad stations on the right. An obvious Detour rings the automobile to a straight stretch wit the bavarian mountains to the  Miles from the Bahn Hof the main Road an the signs curve right. The tourist Forks left across the track keeps. To the left at the next Fork and at the end of the Street turns right to Marie Platz until a left turn puts him Back in Landsberger Strasse ten Miles from the Bohnhof take the right Fork to  town boasts three Church Spires but the Church which is its Pride has Only a clock Tower visible Way to the left next to the Hill As on enters. Where the main Street circles around an old Chapel turn to the left Down a bumpy Road to the cloister Church of Furstenfeld Bruck at Zister Wienser Abbey founded in 1263. The great gothic Church in Pink Stone was built in 1701. Mass is offered at 9 15 p.  picturesque monastery today is a police school. After viewing the old bavarian Market place  take the same Road Back to the e. E. S. A station Augsburg snack Tom sent my Furstenfeld Bruck dec held arg Elfried Ampersee  at any hours. See the manager about converting script the 30-cent Mark. Turning right into Burgermeiste Fischer Strasse transients also can eat at the Kaiser of hotel Diago Nally across the Street from the pm. Officers an civilians can eat at the Apollo club across from the pm. The next left turn leads to the Center of old Augsburg and the Cathedral dating Back to the eleventh Century. Here each can pick his Choice fart from among medieval sculpture exquisite in its simplicity to German a Renaissance paintings and the oldest stained Glass win Dows in Germany. The latter Are in the Small windows above the Cen trial Knave and Date Baek 900 years. Nobody knows How old is the huge mural of  in the rear of the Church. This Power Ful figure was uncovered during restoration of the Cathedral. Behind the Cathe Ralat the very end of the Platz is the old yellow episcopal residence where the papal Delegate interrogated Martin Luther and Albrecht Duerer Drenthe emperor Maximilian i in 1530. It also was the scene of the Augsburg confession the protestant confession of Charles v. In the houses nearby lived the powerful patricians who competed for authority with the Kings of the roman Empire and who forced the peace of Augsburg of Charles v in 1555. P anyone who has not read a German history before he goes to Augsburg will when he gets Back. In an a vacation South of the Cathedral is a fifth Cen Tury roman Fountain memento of the Day when due cloister Church at fur Stenie Briick at Visier Zie scr Abbey founded in 1263. Landsberg Highway. A new american car might break a Spring on the other  Road curves through the Valley past the sparkling Ampersee the Fisherman s sea to the. Ancient walled town of Landsberg. One person must drive the car around the Wall Down to the marketplace. The others can walk through the Gate Down the Hill of winding streets and out into the  ornate Renaissance building at the foot of the Market place is the old town Hall its elaborate facade added in 1699. Policemen stationed in the building will unlock the. Doors to the bavarian town meeting Hall above where pictures depict the pillaging of Landsberg by the swedes in 1633.the main Street leads left out of the Market place curves right up a Hill past the displaced persons Camp to a Fork where the Motorist keeps to the right for  this Road on the left is a Cluster of re roofed buildings the for bidding prison of lands Berg where Adolf Hitler wrote mein kampf anywhere his key men today Are executed  ahead 24 Miles looms up the red Tower of Augsburg part of the old fortifications origin ally built by the romans two thousand years  the Tower the sightseer takes a left Dow the wide Street to the Koni Platz. Here is snack bar and opposite it the Augusta hotel run bythe joint Export import Agency and offering meals another old historic landmark the medieval Gate of the fortification Wall at Landsberg. Augsburg was the greatest commercial City North of the Alps. The substantial workers Homes of the neighbor Hood were built by the fabulous banking House of Fugger a family which gave its name to a whole period of history. The fall of the banking House As a result of tiie repudiation of the Spanish debt in 1627launched the decline of the cities of the South. The High Jacobine term is the easternmost exit from the City. The Road by it leads straight to the autobahn and a gasoline station. The distance Backoo Munich is 35 Miles. If there still is time turn of at the second Signor Dachau to see the crematorium where thousands were gassed and cremated in the concentration  Dachau Road leads it Miles straight Back to the main Bohnhof. Augsburg episcopal residence old Tower. 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