Osnabrück Travel Guide

 Nemorino Says:  I am now one of the very few people in the world who have seen two different productions of the opera Simplicius Simplicissimus by Karl Amadeus Hartmann (1905-1963). The first was Christoph Nel’s production in Stuttgart and Frankfurt, starring Claudia Mahnke and Frank van... 

 Nemorino Says:  After arriving in Osnabrück, checking in to my hotel and picking up my rental bike, I rode over to the tourist information office and asked for a calendar of events, to see if anything special was happening that evening.It turned out that something very special was... 

 Nemorino Says:  The historic Osnabrück City Hall (Rathaus) was completed in late-Gothic style in the year 1512 after more than twenty-five years of construction. It was here, and in the city hall of the neighboring city of Münster, that the Peace of Westphalia was negotiated and finally... 

 Nemorino Says:  Erich Maria Remarque was born in Osnabrück in 1898. He was a prolific and widely-read author who is best known for his anti-war novel Im Westen Nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), which was published in 1928 and subsequently translated into more than 55... 

 Nemorino Says:  The painter Felix Nussbaum was born in Osnabrück in 1904. He was murdered by the Nazis at Auschwitz in 1944.The Felix Nussbaum House in Osnabrück was designed by the architect Daniel Libeskind and was completed in 1998. With its sharp angles and long corridors, the Felix... 

 Nemorino Says:  Since 2004 the Villa Schlikker has been the home of a new museum called the “House of Memories”, devoted to the culture of daily life in various phases of the 20th century.When the last traditional corner shop closed in Osnabrück in 1980, its furniture and contents were... 

 Nemorino Says:  In the basement of Villa Schlikker there is an exhibit on life in Osnabrück in the months and years immediately following the Second World War.Osnabrück was one of the German cities that suffered the most damage and casualties through aerial bombardments from 1940 to 1945.... 

 Nemorino Says:  This house was built in the year 1900 as the residence of Edo Floris Schlikker, the son of a wealthy textile manufacturer. In 1930/31 the house was taken over by the Nazi party, the NSDASP. During the Nazi dictatorship, from 1933 to 1945, the house was the administrative... 

 Nemorino Says:  This is a pleasant and very popular café and bar in the center of Osnabrück. The best thing about it is the location, on a little square just a block away from the theater. The atmosphere is supposedly Mediterranean – that’s why it’s called Bar Celona, get it? – but to me it... 

 chancay Says:  The Lagerhalle is for the younger people in Osnabrück first of all a place with different special party nights, I used to go for example the 26th of dezember when I´m "at home" to visit my parents for christmas I always meet a lot of old friends here.....all meet in the... 

 Nemorino Says:  Like most cities in northern Germany, Osnabrück has a high level of bicycle use by all age groups and all segments of the population.Since 2005 the city has had a Bicycle Traffic Plan which defines criteria for infrastructure, service, information and communication, with the... 

 chancay Says:  Osnabrück´s railway station has a speciality: it has two levels. There is a railway cross in the station, on the first ground the main direction is east - west, on the second ground it´s north - south. I think it´s the only main station in Germany with this kind of...