Lueginsland

Lueginsland is a preserved bastion on Augsburg’s northeastern inner-city edge, in the Bleich and Pfärrle districts. Thick stone walls and traces of battlements show where the former city fortifications protected adjacent sections. Today, paths, stairs, trees and a public green space lead across the upper level.

In 1430, Augsburg began an eight-storey observation tower here on the advice of Emperor Sigismund of Luxembourg. Lightning destroyed it, and a second tower built in 1515 was dismantled after further damage in 1532 and 1533. The replacement bastion took shape in several phases and reached completion in 1553, carrying up to twenty-one cannons. French troops expanded it into a citadel around 1704, but the additions disappeared by 1707.

Restoration in 1915 created the park and a beer cellar beneath shady chestnut trees, while later work added accessible routes. An old cannon passage served as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War, and masonry repairs followed in 2015 and 2016. West of the walls, the Hexenbrunnen displays a wooden witch behind an iron grille, created by Josef Wallner in 1959. Nearby, a Roman-fort-themed playground connects family recreation with Augsburg’s ancient history.