European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - April 11, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Neighbors the rotes Tor red a Complex of 15thcentury reflects Augsburg houses along Augsburg Maximilia Strasse were once owned by the cites Rich medieval Augsburg celebrates 2000th birthday photos and Story by Chuck Vinch Munich Bureau chief the City of Augsburg is having a Little birthday nothing mind just hundreds of thousands of guests and enough sporting events and conventions to fill a after when youre years you have a lot to the City has planned 320 events this year in Honor of its and there is something for if you like the free spirited atmosphere of Street there Are six if youre a classical music concerts of Beethoven and Mozart music will take theater buffs will Delight in the bavarian theater during which 15 Heaters will Send their Best productions to the plays and poems of Bertold who was born in Augsburg and has been called one of the most influential playwrights of the 20th will be part of the there is also a latin theater fest and several open air architectural enthusiasts will be interested in the Augsburg City designed by Elias Holl in 1625 and renovated for this years anniversary at a Cost of almost its considered one of the finest examples of Renaissance architecture North of the Alps and will be the Centrepiece of this years theres More than enough to please sports including the european acrobatics the world canoeing the european soccer championship Between West Germany and and a hot air balloon organizing this monumental anniversary has not been according to Irmgard one of 10 people on the cites 2000year Jubilee commission that is responsible for coordinating All the we actually started planning five years Baur its difficult because the City is not the sole sponsor for All the we wanted our citizens to present themselves during the so Many of the exhibits and events Are their not the its been hectic trying to coordinate those Baur said that in addition to All the other events taking aug burgers Are particularly proud of their program involving their five sister cities Amagasaki and Japan Scotland France and each City will have its own special and weve invited people from the cities to come and stage programs of their sports or Baur she said 500 people from Dayton have accepted invitations to attend that cites week in Early Augsburg has spent a total of about million for the anniversary of which about million has been spent on renovating the City Hall other historical and the cites the rest has gone to support the various monetary assistance has come from unusual Baur weve had a number of aug burgers living in the United states Call to congratulate our mayor on the and two of them sent each to help she although the site of present Day Augsburg has been inhabited since prehistoric the actual Date of the founding of the City is accepted As 15 that is when Drusus and Stepsons of the roman emperor built an outpost there called Augustus Vind Ilici during their Campaign to conquer the Retian tribes in the Alps and the celts to the the people of Augsburg have always thought fondly of a Fountain with a Bronze statue of the emperor has stood in the main Square facing City Hall since inside the City a Bronze bust of Augustus dating from 1620 is on the town prospered because of its which was at the Crossroads of several important Trade after the Bromart Empire the City became one of the spiritual centers of Early Augsburg was a Center of struggle during the protestant reformation in the Middle Martin Luther defended his 95 theses at his trial before Catholic Cardinal Cajetan in Augsburg in the Augsburg religious peace of while not totally Able to Avert religious still paved the Way for a degree of religious around that same in the late 15th and Early 16th the City reached the height of its medieval becoming one of the richest towns in its reputation was built on with merchants later branching out into Coal and steel and also into two families virtually ruled Augsburg during this period the welders and the both wealthy and powerful the welders once owned while the buggers financed the election of emperor Charles the although were not without a social in 1519 Jakob Fugger the Rich Queen Kimberly Huguley washes her hands in a Basin provided by Jacob and Kenny naturally built the first social housing development in the world for poor but deserving the eight streets of the Fugger i Are lined with gabled houses and Are still used to House the needy at the same rental rates that were in effect when it was that Correct that one rhenish Florin per year which today equals about the Industrial revolution brought changes to Augsburg but the City still the first factory on the european a textile works with was established there in the 18th the first German rotary newspaper press was built in the first diesel engine was made there in today the City is the third largest economic Center of just about every aspect of Augsburg heritage will be on display in some form during this years for More Call Irmgard Baur at civilian or write Stadt commission Konrad Adenauer Allee 8900 information also be obtained from the main tourist office at Barnho Strasse 17 or Call civilian american kids join the fun in a display of pageantry that would have put the Tudor court of Henry Viii to More than 60 children in the talented and gifted program at the Augsburg elementary school held a medieval banquet recently to help celebrate the cites 2000th there were lords and knights and serving court peasants and even an presumably to discourage any of Royalty was Queen Kimberly Huguley presided Over the King Dana was unable to having fallen victim to a pox sweeping the kingdom Chicken to be the kids wanted to do something in connection with the said Jennifer tag program coordinator in and since the City was an important Trade Center during the Middle we decided to concentrate on that the students began studying the Middle Ages shortly before Bailiff we studied Broad areas As a and then the students branched off into their own particular some kids designed their own torture devices and weapons of some studied How religion fit into Peoples lives in that time or what the study of Medicine was the whole idea behind tag is to get the kids thinking Bailiff All projects and reports done by the children earned them which determined their standings at the the bigger the projects and the harder you the More Points you explained trumpeter Colin who blew lord Ray Leslie strikes a regal his Horn to announce the various festivities during the Huguley were the Only students to get More than 45 Points which earned them the right to be King and to become a 35 Points were five Points qualified one to be a Huguley made a series of banners that Hung in the banquet Hall As Well As writing two lengthy reports and doing several Small most of the children made their own according to lord Raymond Leslie came in a velvet purple Robe and Matching while lady Tamryn Edgerley arrived in a Beautiful dress she made there was a knighting a tournament of Board games and musical the meal itself proved to be roasted Blackbird with spices actually baked exotic spicy carrots and freshly picked loaves of wine grape juice and spice cake rounded out the they wanted to throw the Chicken Bones on the just like they did in the Middle but i had to say no to said when the evening was the guests agreed it had been a huge i had a really Good said its fun being a Chuck Vinch schedule of events Here is a list of some of the major events taking place in Augsburg during the cites 2000th anniversary through april 14 Ludl latin latin theater in the Kleiner Goldener through april 21 City Folk through july 21 Hildesheimer table Silver showing All 131 pieces of the famous setting made in Augsburg in in the Maximilian museum april 1321 Osterd ult Street near the april 17 european soccer West Germany in the april 6 bavarian botanical in the Botan Ischer april 26july 28 Dawn of the Industrial depleting changes in Augsburg during the 17th and 18th in the Augsburg Art gallery near Witt Elsbacher Park and also in the Man May 4 bavarian patriots May 1219 Mozart festival in the May 1418 european acrobatics in the May 19 marksmen May 17 the romans in historical perspective of Augsburg Early in the june 719 bavarian theater june 9 grand Folk costume june 1722 japanese sister City celebrating Amagasaki and june 18 Ellas Holl and the Augsburg City display on the design and construction of the 17thcentury on the and Zeu Platz june 23july 1 the opera Aida and Trie musical an Tevka will be performed on the open air stage near the rotes june 28 official 2000th anniversary ceremonies near City june 29 crafts museum opening in the june 30 Swabia including a historic Parade with people from swabian communities surrounding july 16 american sister City celebrating july 521 great historical festival of Augsburg historical and on the Elias hol Platz and july and August summer theater in the july 2227 great Britain sister City celebrating 15 Gold and silversmiths in the Maximilian 8 City Folk 5 week of fellow jewish honouring former jewish aug burgers who emigrated from Germany in the 27 French sister City celebrating 2122 hot air balloon starting on via 6 herbs adult Street Market near the 25 Augsburg philharmonic orchestra concert in the Basilica of Afra and 10 stripes Magazine april april stripes Magazine 11
