Museums in Augsburg Region

The Battle of Lechfeld in 955 was an epic event and is considered the “birth of the Germans”. The information and presentation pavillon “955” in Königsbrunn has three large dioramas with thousands of pewter figures and state-of-the-art museum technology. Visitors learn about the siege of Augsburg, the defeat of the Hungarian cavalries on the Lech and the significance of these events for Hungary and Europe.

The hydropower plant still produces electricity today. In a historicism style building, the Lech museum in Bavaria describes the nature, life and business of the Lech valley. The history of the Lechwerke Augsburg and the development of the Lech for the purpose of power generation is explained. The museum film guides viewers from the alps to the Danube. The originally equipped turbine house from 1907 can be visited.

The Nature Park House on the grounds of the Oberschönenfeld monastery has an exhibition called “Nature and Man in the Nature Park”. elephant teeth and a monkey mandible show that there was once a subtropical to tropical climate in this region. The ice age and glaciers left reindeer antlers and mammoth teeth behind. In the recent past Roman bricks, pottery and iron ore were found.

Exhibits and models in the Archaeological Museum of Local History offer a look into the life of our ancestors: from the Mesolithic to the Bronze and Iron Age into the Roman era and the early Middle Ages. It is an impressive illustration of the cultural and economic development of people through the ages. It is readable and accessible via a multitude of discoveries.