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Felix Nussbaum was born in Osnabrück in 1904 into a prosperous Jewish merchant family. He became a painter, studied in Berlin and Hamburg, and …

The Osnabrück Rathaus is one of the finest Gothic civic buildings in Germany, a long, gabled structure on the north side of the Marktplatz …

The Marktplatz is the heart of Osnabrück and one of the best-preserved medieval market squares in northern Germany. It is surrounded by a sequence …

The Cathedral of St. Peter — the Dom — is the largest church in Osnabrück and one of the oldest buildings in the city, …

Museum and battlefield park interpreting the Roman defeat in the Teutoburg Forest.

The Marienkirche — St. Mary's Church — stands on the east side of the Marktplatz, a Gothic hall church built mostly in the fourteenth …

The Ledenhof is a Renaissance mansion on the southern edge of the Marktplatz, one of the finest secular Renaissance buildings in northern Germany. It …

Osnabrück industrial-history museum in a former coal mine complex at Piesberg.

The Lagerhalle is Osnabrück's main independent cultural venue, housed in a converted nineteenth-century warehouse on the western fringe of the old town. It runs …

The Teutoburg Forest — Teutoburger Wald — is the ridge of wooded sandstone hills that runs southeast of Osnabrück, reaching up to four hundred …

The Bucksturm is a squat medieval tower on the western edge of the old town, one of the few substantial remnants of Osnabrück's fourteenth-century …

Osnabrueck natural-history museum with regional ecology and planetarium exhibits

Narrow-gauge heritage railway at Piesberg, tied to Osnabrück's quarry and industrial landscape.

The Waterloo Gate — Waterloo-Tor — is an early nineteenth-century memorial arch built to commemorate the soldiers from Osnabrück who fought at Waterloo in …

Osnabrück University was founded in 1973 as part of the wave of new German universities established in the postwar decades to expand access to …