TheFuggerhäuser (Fugger houses) is a complex of houses on theMaximilianstraße inAugsburg, built for theFugger family of businessmen. It is now owned by the Fugger-Babenhausen branch of the Fugger family who resides at Wellenburg castle in Augsburg and inBabenhausen, Bavaria.

From 1512 to 1515Jakob Fugger the Younger (orthe Rich) built two linked houses on theVia Claudia (now Maximilianstraße) near the wine market, one as a town-house and the other as a warehouse. He designed them himself, based on notes he had taken on his travels in Italy. The secular building was the firstRenaissance style building constructed north of the Alps. He bought other neighbouring houses from 1517 onwards and integrated them into the complex.

The outer facade, one of the longest on Maximilianstraße, showed the Fugger family riches, since there was a tax paid according to the length of a house's facade. Inside the complex Jakob created four courtyards with arcades, mosaics, tuscan marble and water basins. TheDamenhof, with its Tuscan columns supporting arcades and painted arches, was designed as a family garden for female members of the family. TheZofenhof opens off theDamenhof, whilst the third and fourth courtyard (theSerenadenhof andReiterhof) abut each other at the back of the building. Larger teams of horses could enter the complex through a high and wide gate - theAdlertor (Eagle Gate) - and leave through another on theReiterhof.

After being destroyed in the Second World War, the complex was rebuilt in 1951 by Carl Fürst Fugger-Babenhausen. The front facade used to feature a fresco byHans Burgkmair, which was destroyed in the Second World War and replaced by a new livery. Plaques there recall the Fugger business empire and the events of 1518, whenMartin Luther was interrogated byThomas Cajetan in the Fuggerhäuser. In the middle of the facade is theAdlertor, which indicates that the Fuggerhäuser was an imperial residence - this gate now leads to the headquarters of theFürst Fugger Privatbank.

The building is closed to the public, other than three of the inner courtyards and a three-naved hall on the ground floor of the Adlertor, which houses a bookshop at #37 Maximillianstrasse, where visitors to the shop can look onto theDamenhof. On the north side of theDamenhof andSerenadenhof is the white bay window into the quarters occupied byCharles V, Holy Roman Emperor. A Fugger coat of arms features on the back facade of the Fuggerhäuser on Zeugplatz. The Fugger concert hall was probably in this area -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart played a concert in that hall in 1777.

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