Street Names and House History

Street names and house history are of particular importance when working with archival records. For Augsburg, it is important to note that until 1937 official addresses were recorded using the system of litera numbers. Only thereafter were the street names and house numbers that are familiar today introduced for official administrative purposes. A concordance between the historical litera system and modern addresses is available in the Digital Reading Room.Also of special significance are the so-called land register extracts (Grundbuchauszüge), which provide information on the owners of Augsburg’s buildings during the Early Modern period and the nineteenth century. These records are an important source for tracing the history of individual properties and their occupants over time.

If a resource is available online, a link is provided. Otherwise, the shelfmark of the copy held in the Archives Library of the Augsburg City Archives is given. For specialised topics or more in-depth literature research, we recommend consulting the Augsburg City Archives’ online catalogue (OPAC). Please note that the Augsburg City Archives is not responsible for the content, availability, or accuracy of external resources and websites.

• Concordance between the Historical Litera Address System and Present-Day Street Names and House Numbers
• Land Register Extracts of the City of Augsburg
  • Index to the Land Register Extracts
• Augsburg City Directories
• Bernt von Hagen, Angelika Wegener-Hüssen: Stadt Augsburg (= Bayerisches Landesamt für Denkmalpflege [Hrsg.]: Denkmäler in Bayern. Band VII.83). Karl M. Lipp Verlag, München 1994
• Robert Pfaud, Das Bürgerhaus in Augsburg, Tübingen 1976 (StadtAA, BIB, 01/BIB 4-00558)
• Eugen Hausladen, Die Meister der Augsburger Baukunst. Mittelalter und Renaissance, Berlin 2016 (StadtAA, BIB, 02/LS 9.8)
• Eugen Hausladen, Die Meister der Augsburger Baukunst. Barock und Klassizismus, Berlin 2020 (StadtAA, BIB, 01/BIB 8-11704)
• Max Strobel, Von Haus zu Haus durch die Steuerbücher führt Max Strobel
  Christoph Jakob Haid, Historische Nachweise über die ursprüngliche Benennung aller Straßen, Plätze, Thürme, Häuser, Höfe etc. in der Kreis-Hauptstadt Augsburg, welche in ihrem Namen etwas Eigenthümliches oder Unbekanntes haben , 1833 (StadtAA, BIB, 01/BIB 8-06506)