Osnabrück
— — the city where a war was talked to a close.
Not only on a wall.
“An old episcopal city of about 165,000, set in the valley the Hase River cuts between two low German ranges. Charlemagne founded the bishopric here in 780. Almost nine centuries later, in 1648, the Protestant half of the Peace of Westphalia was signed in the Rathaus on the market square, ending the Thirty Years' War in the same week Münster signed the Catholic half. The city has called itself the Friedensstadt — the city of peace — ever since, and the room where the treaty was signed is still kept as it was. from the studio
Osnabrück, on ceramic.
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Osnabrück lies in the southwest corner of Lower Saxony, in the Osnabrück Hügelland between the Teutoburg Forest to the south and the Wiehengebirge to the north, with a population near 165,000. Charlemagne established the bishopric in 780, making it one of the oldest in Saxony. The city was a Hanseatic League member from the late 13th century and is the seat of Osnabrück University, founded in 1974. It is also the birthplace of the novelist Erich Maria Remarque.
The late-Gothic Rathaus on the Markt was finished in 1512 in pale sandstone, with a single steep slate roof and twelve sandstone figures of German emperors along its façade. Inside, the Friedenssaal — the Peace Hall — still holds the wooden bench and portraits of the diplomats who signed the Treaty of Osnabrück on 15 May 1648. Across the square, the Romanesque St. Peter's Cathedral was begun in the 11th century and rebuilt after Allied bombing levelled 65 percent of the old city in 1944 and 1945.
The Friedenssaal in the Rathaus is open most days, typically Tuesday through Sunday, with a small entry fee that also covers the adjacent treasury and its 13th-century Kaiserpokal silver cup. A short walk west, the Felix Nussbaum Haus — Daniel Libeskind's first completed building, opened in 1998 — holds the largest collection of works by the Osnabrück-born painter, who was murdered at Auschwitz in 1944. The two buildings together hold the city's two oldest claims on outside attention.