Archäologischer Garten

The Archäologischer Garten lies in Augsburg’s old town, where an open-air archaeological site reveals Roman, medieval and early modern layers. Its walkable garden covers about 400 square metres.

Excavations from 1992 to 1996 uncovered foundations and artefacts from a large Roman building, probably public baths covering around 3,500 square metres. Roman walls remain at the rear. Beneath today’s streets, archaeologists found floors up to three and a half metres deep, including hypocaust heating systems. A sheltered Roman hearth shows how people once prepared food here.

Information panels explain the excavations and techniques such as wattle-and-daub construction. The western section preserves traces of Augsburg’s Roman beginnings as Augusta Vindelicum, while later remains show how the medieval and early modern city developed above them. One detail stays especially vivid: the protected hypocaust makes Roman underfloor heating visible in the middle of an open garden.