Fuggerei
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The Fuggerei is the world's oldest public housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by
Herrengasse in the Fuggerei
St. Mark's Church and Herrengasse
Herrengasse
Mittlere Gasse and well
Fugger family
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The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mer
Fuggerei
…is the world's oldest public housing complex still in use. It is a walled enclave within the city of Augsburg, Bavaria. It takes its name from the Fugger family and was founded in 1516 by Jakob Fugger the Younger (known as "Jakob Fugger the Rich") as a place where the needy citizens of Augsburg could be housed…
Portrait of Georg Fugger by Giovanni Bellini, 1474
Jakob Fugger, "the Rich" (1459–1525), by Albrecht Dürer
10 ducats (1621) minted as circulating currency by the Fugger family
The Fugger family's burial chapel of 1509 at St. Anne's Church, Augsburg