Editing Fuggerei (section)

==Description==

The rent was and still is one [[Rhenish gulden|Rhenish ''gulden'']] per year (equivalent to 0.88 euros<ref>{{cite web |title=Official website of the Fugger - Fuggerei |website=Wayback Machine |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250209175529/https://www.fugger.de/fuggerei |access-date=9 February 2025}}</ref> (not adjusted for inflation)), as well as to make three daily prayers for the current owners of the {{lang|de|Fuggerei}} – the [[Lord's Prayer]], [[Hail Mary]], and the [[Nicene Creed]] – and to work a part-time job in the community.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Billock |first1=Jennifer |title=After Almost 500 Years, the World's Oldest Social Housing Complex Is Still Going Strong |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/after-almost-500-years-german-utopia-is-still-going-strong-180973787/ |access-date=19 December 2019 |work=[[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |date=19 December 2019}}</ref> The conditions to live there remain the same as they were 500 years ago: one must have lived at least two years in Augsburg, be of the Catholic faith and have become [[indigent]] without debt. The five gates are still locked every day at 10 PM.

Housing units in the area consist of 45 to 65 square metre (500–700 square foot) [[apartment]]s, but because each unit has its own street entrance it simulates living in a house. There is no shared accommodation; each family has its own apartment, which includes a kitchen, a parlour, a bedroom and a tiny spare room, altogether totalling about 60 square metres (600 sq. ft.). Ground-floor apartments all have a small garden and garden shed, while upper-floor apartments have an attic. All apartments have modern conveniences such as television and running water. One ground-floor apartment is uninhabited, serving as a museum open to the public. The doorbells have elaborate shapes, each being unique, dating back to before the installation of streetlights when residents could identify their door by feeling the handle in the dark.<ref name="Esterl">{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Esterl |title=In This Picturesque Village, the Rent Hasn't Been Raised Since 1520 |newspaper=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=26 December 2008}}</ref>