In the project Jakob Fugger a historical European influencer for over two years we have been searching for economical, political, medial, social and environmental footprints which had been left by the richest man in the world in our city. Sooner or later, every proper researcher will visit the archives, where the most important written sources Read More …
From Saturday 28 May to Wednesday 1 June, the second teachers’ meeting of the project «Jakob Fugger: a historical European influencer» took place. We went to Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. It was a happy reunion between the various colleagues who had recently met in Augsburg for their first student mobility. On Saturday evening we were Read More …
On 30th of April, the time had finally come. After more than a year and a half of waiting due to Corona, the students from the partner schools from Belgium, Spain, Slovakia and Italy finally arrived in Augsburg for the kick-off project week as part of the Erasmus+ project. After being welcomed by the German Read More …
On the occasion of Heritage Day 2022, 5ECMTb-LMT was able to spend an entire afternoon exploring the site of St Paul’s Church on Friday 29 April 2022. This historic church is located in the old city centre, a stone’s throw from the river Scheldt, in the city quarter where sailors used to live. Therefore, it Read More …
After our visit to Eugeen Van Mieghem’s exhibition last November, we knew the story was not yet finished and we could still learn a lot more about this intriguing period of the port of Antwerp. On 19 April 2022, Investar Fine Arts (which manages the art patrimony of banking and insurance group Argenta) opened an Read More …
Once again we followed the footsteps of Jacob Fugger in our city with our Erasmus team. We know that there are quite a few of them. It is even possible that Jakub Fugger, who is the protagonist in our Erasmus+ project, has never visited Banská Bystrica. But despite this, he and Ján Thurz managed to Read More …
As an introduction to the Erasmus+ project on Jakob Fugger, the pupils of 5ECMTb-LMT visited the exhibition «Komt een Italiaan naar de Nederlanden» (An Italian comes to the Netherlands) in the Plantin-Moretus Museum in Antwerp on Tuesday 1 February. Based on quotations from Lodovico Guicciardini in his 16th century bestseller «Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Read More …
On 3 December 2021, the students of the Jakob-Fugger-Gymnasium, together with their teachers Christina Obermeier and Jürgen Wünsch, visited the Fugger and Welser museum in the city centre of Augsburg as part of their Erasmus+ project. We had the opportunity to join a workshop on the museum’s main topic which is approaching history as a Read More …
