The Church of St. Anne was a Carmelite monastery, built in 1321.

In the 15th and 16th centuries it was expanded and more chapels were built, including the Fugger Chapel, the first building constructed in the ecclesiastical Renaissance style in Germany.

Martin Luther stayed there from October 7th to 20th, 1518, for the interrogation that the papal envoy, Cardinal Cajetan, was to conduct.

Because Luther refused to recant his 95 Theses, he fled Augsburg before he could be arrested.

There is the “Lutherstiege,” a small museum that houses an exhibition of documents relating to the beginning of the Reformation.