# Glaspalast

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Glaspalast stands in Augsburg’s textile district as an industrial monument with a steel-framed structure. Its façades are almost entirely covered with windows on every side. Designed by Stuttgart architect Philipp Jakob Manz, it served as Werk IV: Aumühle for a cotton-spinning and weaving company. Deep spinning halls received natural light through Manz’s daylight-factory design.

The factory used a MAN steam engine rather than canal water to drive transmission systems throughout the building. Electric drives later replaced the spinning machinery’s earlier system. Textile production ended in the late twentieth century, after which restoration gave the former mill a cultural purpose. The ground floor contains the Zentrum für Gegenwartskunst. Its museum galleries present changing modern and contemporary exhibitions from Augsburg and international artists. The upper museum level houses the privately run Kunstmuseum Walter. Other spaces include Galerie Noah, BBK Schwaben-Nord und Augsburg, and the restaurant La Tavernetta.

The collection spans modern art to the present and includes regional and international artists. A north-front sprinkler tower carries a bell-shaped dome and flagpole above the asymmetrical façade. That missing northern tower records an expansion that the original plans never realised.

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## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Glaspalast_686f57c7622f9d68e0acf3e8_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Augsburg_glaspalast_20020525.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_Glaspalast_686f57c7622f9d68e0acf3e8_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datei:Glaspalast_Augsburg_Nordfront.jpg)

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