Osnabrueck: Peace of Westphalia Co-Signatory, Felix Nussbaum, and Lower Saxony's Western Anchor
Osnabrueck has a population around 166,000 and sits in western Lower Saxony, close to the NRW border. The city co-signed the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 alongside Muenster, ending the Thirty Years' War; the Friedenssaal (Peace Hall) in the Rathaus is where the treaty was proclaimed. Felix Nussbaum, the Jewish painter murdered at Auschwitz in 1944, was born here; the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is one of Germany's most powerful museum buildings. Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front," was also born in Osnabrueck.
The Universitaet Osnabrueck and the Hochschule Osnabrueck together have around 25,000 students. The Heger Tor, a memorial gate from 1817, marks the old town's western entrance. Volkswagen has a large production plant in the city. Osnabrueck is about equidistant from Muenster (60 km east) and the Dutch border (50 km west). Adult companionship follows Lower Saxony's implementation of the federal framework.
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Osnabrueck has a population around 166,000 and sits in western Lower Saxony, close to the NRW border. The city co-signed the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 alongside Muenster, ending the Thirty Years' War; the Friedenssaal (Peace Hall) in the Rathaus is where the treaty was proclaimed. Felix Nussbaum, the Jewish painter murdered at Auschwitz in 1944, was born here; the Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, designed by Daniel Libeskind, is one of Germany's most powerful museum buildings. Erich Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front," was also born in Osnabrueck.
The Universitaet Osnabrueck and the Hochschule Osnabrueck together have around 25,000 students. The Heger Tor, a memorial gate from 1817, marks the old town's western entrance. Volkswagen has a large production plant in the city. Osnabrueck is about equidistant from Muenster (60 km east) and the Dutch border (50 km west). Adult companionship follows Lower Saxony's implementation of the federal framework.
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