ABSTRACT
The wooden model of Augsburg’s Gothic town hall is the first of seven architectural models referring to the planning process of the new early 17th century Augsburg town hall. It is part of the Augsburg Model Chamber (Modellkammer), today in the Maximilian Museum Augsburg, which is considered one of the most important collections of historical models. Despite its extraordinary importance, neither art historical nor architectural historical methods have been able to clarify the function nor date of the model. The methodological approach of this work is therefore to analyze the model in terms of construction history, to verify previous research results by comparing them with the surviving sources, and to clarify whether this model is a contemporary memorial after the new construction of the town hall or a design model from an earlier period.
