Talk:Osnabrück

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Yes, that would make sense. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.246.93.74 (talk) 17:58, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

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"In 889 it was given Merchant law, Customs law and Coinage law by King Arnulf von Kärnten".

Does this make sense? Or is law a mistranslation of German Recht? Should it rather read privilege or the like?

S.


There seem to be several wrong translations in this article, but since I am not a native speaker, I wasn't sure enough to correct them. Anyhow, I don't know what 80.130.223.132 was talking about here; "merchant law" may mean the right to have a market, but I'm not sure. Feel free to change these words. -- Cordyph


Removed this non-descriptive tourism guff: "It is a pretty city, whose well-preserved center, along with city walls, is well worth a visit." -- Bignose


It's my hometown, so I took the liberty to add a lot of stuff. Fixed a few mistakes in the dates on the way and corrected the "law" to privilege, which is obviously what was intended. I am also to blame for the previous anonymous submission. Wiki logged me off for some reason. -- djmutex


I lived here as a child, my father was in the British army. I seem to remember being told that the town had the largest British garrison outside the UK. This might be worth mentioning if it's (still) true. Anyone know? -- sannse 15:26 Apr 27, 2003 (UTC)


The British garrison still exists, I believe, although it is much smaller because, since 1990, Germany is no longer formally a country occupied by the allied forces from WW2. I moved away from Osnabrück in 1994, so I am not terribly up to date. I do remember though that the barracks were the target of several severe attacks of the IRA before that time. I'll try to find out more since this is indeed memorable... I seem to remember that certain pubs in the city were under firm British control during the weekends. :-) djmutex

Lived next to Belfast Bks & the Naafi for a year in 99/00, would be happy to answer any questions that I know the answers to. haz (user talk) 15:37, 17 January 2006 (UTC)

1. Yhe coat of arms is a wheel likely found on osnabrueck.de i.e. here http://www.osnabrueck.de/4892.asp. No idea how to change that. I simply won't mess things up here.

2. Twin cities are also Twer in Russia and Angers in France

JHQ, is the biggest Britsih army base in germany now i'm sure. The base in osnabruck is supposedly going to move out by 2009--Tomcowie 16:03, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it was at least the biggest British base in Germany. But I do no know much about the present situation as I left Osnabrück (district) ages ago. --MrsMyer 16:39, 19 April 2007 (UTC)


I will update the history section based on the german page. Neozoon 20:24, 26 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Osnaburg

If in old ages in English language the town was called Osanburg, this fact should be mentioned.--Ulamm (talk) 18:31, 29 January 2008 (UTC)