Student city Münster
by Gillianina
Münster is located in nort-west Germany in the region of Nordrhein Westfalen. It has 280.000 ihnabitants, of which about 50.000 are students..amazing, isn't it? Having made up my mind that I wanted to study one year in Germany, which other city could have been better? :-) There's one thing I'd like to tell: as soon as I arrived in Münster Railway Station, in the main hall there was a big sign: "Münster, lebendige Mitte Westfalens, herzlich wilkommen"!!! (lively centre of Westfalen: welcome)..I immediately thought: cool, this is the place!!!! .-)))) the trips to the nearby cities with my friends (Osnabrück and Dortmund seem to be quite frequent, although not wanted!), Umsteigenmöglichkeit zu den Stadt und regionalbuslinien, tea afternoons in Wohneim´s rooms, the nights with my friends in our favourite pubs, such as Destille, partys, the bakeries (down with the diet!), the russian course (oops..I forgot to do my homework!), watching soccer matches on tv in order to spot cute players (!!), cocktail happy hour in Enchilada (white russian for ever!), and many many others.. :-)
Schloss Nordkirchen
by MichaelFalk1969
The best-known moated palace in the Münsterland is Schloss Nordkirchen in the village of Nordkirchen. The palace itself is not open to the public, but the park and garden is. It is nicknamed "Little Versailles"
Rental bikes
by Nemorino
At the bicycle station they also have bicycles for rent, including tandem bikes and bicycle trailers for children.
I didn't rent a bike here, because I had one from the Youth Guest House where I was staying, but the rental price at the bicycle station is EUR 7.50 per calendar day, reduced to 6.50 if you have come from more than 100 kilometers by train (just show your ticket).
You can also rent for three calendar days (EUR 17.50) or for a week (EUR 32,50), and there are reduced prices for groups.
GPS 51°57'23.76" North; 7°38'3.56" East
Allwetterzoo
by sabsi
To be honest I was kinda disappointed about Münster's zoo. We came here on a rainy day and as it claims that it's a zoo for all kinds of weather we thought that would be ok. There were some covered walkways here but to see animals you couldn't avoid walking in the rain. The animals weren't in a very good mood because of the rain though. Or maybe it was because of all the ugly concrete in the zoo?
OK I am spoilt because Hannover zoo is one of the best zoos in Europe and I know it too well but the price for Münster was almost as high as for Hannover and it wasn't really worth it.
On the grounds of the zoo there is a horse museum and a dolphin show as well.
Friedensaal (Hall of Peace)
by Nemorino
Photos:
1. Friedensaal
2. The chimney
3. The golden rooster
Münster was one of two cities -- the other being nearby Osnabrück -- where the peace treaties were negotiated and signed to bring an end to the Thirty Years' War that had ravaged Germany, or what is now Germany, from 1618 to 1648.
The Hall of Peace in the Münster Town Hall is where some of the negotiations took place, over a period of five years, before the final treaties were signed (not in this room) on October 24, 1648. The negotiations were long and difficult, with 109 delegations taking part at one time or another, but the end result was that for the first time in European history a major war was ended by diplomacy, not military surrender.
Münster had about 100,000 inhabitants in those days, and had to house and feed roughly the same number of visitors from all those delegations -- which must have been quite a strain, but the advantage was that Münster was declared a neutral city for the duration of the peace talks, so it was not the site of any battles during the final years of the war.
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Stadthaus tower
Erbdrostenhof, back facade
Boxfish
Café Extrablatt
