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Osnabruck

Country:
Germany
State:
Lower Saxony
City:
Osnabruck
Type of Location:
Multiple
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How to Reach

By Air

In the urban area is the airport Osnabruck-Atterheide and about 35 kilometers from the center of the international airport Munster-Osnabruck (FMO), Greven. There is an express bus service to the transport community Osnabruck (VOS) from the Osnabruck city to the airport Münster-Osnabruck with the express bus X150.

By Train

The "Hauptbahnhof" (Main Station) of Osnabruck is an important railway station.Travellers from the Netherlands heading for either Hamburg and Denmark, or Berlin and Eastern Europe, often have to change here.Osnabruck is a railway junction with a passenger station in a rare design for a tower and a railway station yard. In the main station cross the railway lines in Hamburg - Bremen - Amsterdam and the Ruhr - Hannover - Berlin. In addition, branches from two routes here.The one in the southeast to Bielefeld ("Haller Willem") and the other in the north.This splits into two routes Hesepe in one hand, the route to Wilhelmshaven on Cloppenburg - Oldenburg (Oldb), on the other hand, the route of Delmas on Vechta.Then there are the "Northern Railway Tecklenburger" Osnabruck - Mettingen - Recke - Rheine with freight and museum trains for which the re-commissioning is a modern regional railway in the discussion.

By Bus

The road passenger transport in urban areas use city buses now have nine basic lines of Stadtwerke Osnabruck AG and closely linked to regional coaches of the Weser-Ems Bus GmbH and other companies.Until the 1960s the picture was dominated by other modes of transport: From 1906 to 1960 reversed trams. In 1949 the first trolleybus line was put into operation, a Obusnetz replaced until 1968 the disused tramway.Thereafter, the diesel-powered buses were the only mode of transport within the city limits.The most important central connecting point next to the Central Station is the Neumarkt with several covered bus platform.

By Road

The city of Osnabruck is connected by road to the A1, the A30 and the A33.It shares the Münster Osnabruck International Airport together with the nearby city of Munster.

By Ferry

Using a random port channel in the district of Osnabruck inland port is connected to the Midland Canal.

Key places to visit
Osnabruck Zoo, Hyde Park, Cathedral and Diocesan Museum, Felix Nussbaum Museum, Kunsthalle Dominican Church, Osnabruck Chamber Music Festival, Independent Film Festival

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Places to Visit

Osnabruck Zoo

is located in the south of Osnabruck Osnabruck on the slopes of Mount Scholer.It was founded in 1935 as a "home zoo" and opened in the summer of 1936.On 23.5 acres of land are more than 2,000 animals from 300 species seen.from tapirs to up sand cats, prairie dogs and Siberian tigers live in the Zoo Osnabruck very different and many unusual animals.A special attraction is the underground zoo.Here are naked mole rats, prairie dogs and many other earthlings observed. Besides the underground zoo does have a wolf wood, a South American area since June 2010 and an African savannah landscape called Takamanda.In 2009 850.000 visitors came to the Zoo Osnabruck.

Hyde Park

is a traditional country music club in Osnabruck.1976 in a former picnic area at the Rheiner highway opened, the current site is located in three parades in an industrial area on Fürstauer way. The "Hyde Park" is the oldest disco with unchanged management in Germany, ie it is more durable than the Hof Ratingen in Dusseldorf, and older than the SO 36 in Berlin.After some transition events in the "Hall Gartlage" was used as a makeshift circus tent erected in Urlager Esch on Fürstauer way. [6] As at the previous location also made ​​many international rock and pop station. Due to poor sound insulation, it also came here to protest local residents. As no suitable existing property could be found on the same site was erected a wooden building, which is the form of a circus tent was modeled. In 2000 the lease was not renewed the contract with the city, so move the "Hyde Park" again, now had a few hundred meters, in an octagonal steel structure on the other side of the road. At this last site is the first disco and concert business takes up today - some with the grandchildren of the first "Hyde Park" visitors as an audience.

Cathedral and Diocesan Museum

is a museum of the Catholic Diocese of Diocese of Osnabruck.500 m2 at the Museum on the exhibits from more than 1000 years of existence are issued the diocese.The museum is located next to the Cathedral of St. Peter.The Diocesan Museum was founded in 1918 under Bishop Wilhelm Berning established, "to subordinate the existing disused church art from the cathedral and the churches of the Diocese of Osnabruck and to present proof".Besides the cathedral also paintings, sculptures, are liturgical garments and precious furniture on display.In addition, rare ancient texts and the relics of the Diocese of St. Crispin and Crispinian from the 13th Century issued.Especially important works are the sculptures on the early 14th until the early 16th Century, including numerous works by the " master of Osnabruck "as the best sculptor's workshop in the region in late middle age.Among the textiles is the priestly robe of Benno II of Osnabruck from Byzantine silk from the 11th Century, the main work.

Felix Nussbaum Museum

is a museum in Lower Saxony, Osnabruck.It houses more than 200 works of the painter Felix Nussbaum , making it the world's largest collection of his paintings.In May 2011 for three million euros an extension building was erected.A two-thirds of existing glass corridor connects the Felix Nussbaum Museum with the rest of the museum complex, consisting of the Felix Nussbaum Museum, the Akzisehaus, the Villa Schlikker and the Cultural History Museum.In Akzisehaus, the last surviving customs building Osnabruck, is the museum shop.Libeskind personally opened the new building.The two-storey building includes a reception area for the Walnut House and the adjacent Museum of Cultural History also a didactic museum room with library and a cafeteria. The windows of the extension work as fragmented inserted into the façade.This form goes back to experiments with shade structures, which were from the walnut-house with a light source projected onto the crops.

Kunsthalle Dominican Church

The art exhibition is a Dominican church hall building in Osnabruck ( Lower Saxony ). The Kunsthalle is located in the former monastery church of the former monastery of the Holy Cross Dominican Order.The Kunsthalle is subordinate to the Ministry of Culture and museums. In the Gothic church buildings are shown on 665 square meter area of the nave, and 375 square feet of vestibule changing regional and national exhibitions of contemporary visual art.From the 13th Century Dominican monastery, founded near the church, the four-winged monastery buildings from the Baroque period obtained, which is used by the city authorities.

Osnabruck Chamber Music Festival

was launched in 1997 and has since found each spring in Osnabruck place and environment.The festival has, among others, the networking of European chamber music prescribed. At the same time it wants young European musicians with the involvement of students at the Osnabruck University of Applied Sciences and University support. Aligned to the Chamber Music Festival of the Castle Club Osnabruck eV. Patron is Hans-Gert Poettering , President of the European Parliament.The 12th Osnabruck Chamber Music Festival will take place from 11th to 20 April 2008 under the artistic direction of Hubert Buchberger place.

Independent Film Festival

is one of the oldest and most traditional festivals in Lower Saxony . It takes place every year on five days in October in Osnabruck place. The festival is organized by the nonprofit filmforum Osnabruck eV, led by Birgit Müller and Holger Tepe. Lower Saxony's Minister President David McAllister is the patron of the 26th Independent Film Festival Osnabruck, dated 12 to 16 October 2011 takes place.Since its founding in 1986 under the name "The days of independent film," the film festival is committed to the dedicated and innovative film. The main idea of the film is fixed in the promotion of tolerance among nations and in society. It works with numerous organizations, such as the international children's rights organization Terre des hommes together.2001 the film festival a more socio-political orientation, and since then bears the name "Independent Film Festival Osnabruck".

Right Time to Visit

July - October
January - May

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