Source
Source: Augusta (Augsburg), woodcut by Michael Wolgemut, Liber Chronicarum, 1493, Folio XCII, Drew University copy, cropped, Internet Archive, ark:/13960/t6b39g779.
Abstract
The quintessential German Renaissance city and one of Germany’s oldest, Augsburg was a rival to Nuremberg, just 75 miles to the north. During the sixteenth century, Augsburg hosted many Imperial Diets and surpassed Nuremberg as the largest German-speaking city and financial hub of the Empire.
View of Augsburg (1493)
Recommended Citation
View of Augsburg (1493),
published in: German History in Documents and Images,
<https://germanhistorydocs.org/en/from-the-reformations-to-the-thirty-years-war-1500-1648/ghdi:image-3277>
[March 27, 2025].