The Kloster der Franziskanerinnen von Maria Stern has stood in Augsburg's old town since 1258, when two sisters and their widowed mother began a religious community in a house called "Zum Stern." The name, meaning "towards the star," stayed. The order it grew into is still based here today.

The convent's church was built between 1574 and 1576 by Johannes Holl, father of Augsburg's celebrated Renaissance architect Elias Holl. The onion-shaped tower Johannes built may have been the first of its kind in Swabia, and the style went on to define church architecture across Bavaria.

The community's survival was never guaranteed. During the Reformation, Augsburg turned Protestant but the sisters held to Catholicism and were gradually shut out of their own church. After secularisation in 1803, the convent dwindled to just six sisters. King Ludwig I of Bavaria restored it in 1828 on one condition: the sisters would train as teachers for Augsburg's girls' schools. A school founded under that arrangement is still running.

VoiceMap's self-guided audio tours connect the convent to the Holl family story and to the wider history of Augsburg's Lechviertel quarter.