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)

"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)

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)

Automotive
The city has a proud heritage of automotive construction, so why deny this additional comment linking back to the Karmann company?

if you want to use the text, here it is.

Osnabrück is the home of the company Wilhelm Karmann GmbH (commonly known simply as "Karmann"), which is the largest independent motor vehicle company in Germany. The company is famed for design, production and assembly of components for various automobile manufacturers including Chrysler, Porsche, Volkswagen and DuraCar. Notably, Karmann have produced comvertable and coupe variants of production cars, mostly notably the Volkswagen Beetle and currently (as of 2009) the Audi A4.

if not, it's your loss guys!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.171.153.68 (talk) 12:22, 2 April 2009 (UTC)


 * I agree! Karmann is (was) a significant part of the city's heritage ItsGrimUpNorth (talk) 14:42, 2 February 2010 (UTC)

Famous People
I cleaned up the section about famous people and joined it with the section about notable (former) residents. In particular, I deleted King George I, since he was clearly born in Hanover and not in Osnabrueck. I also removed the name of a singer (red link) and of a World War II fighter pilot. However, I don't know really know what the Wikipedia criteria for famous people are, so if these two people are notable, just put them back in.137.43.123.239 (talk) 19:50, 21 March 2012 (UTC) Christian Wulff is mentioned twice, Line 3 and Line 8. I would suggest removing line 3, as it has less information about him.06:07, 30 December 2014 (UTC)06:07, 30 December 2014 (UTC)06:07, 30 December 2014 (UTC)06:07, 30 December 2014 (UTC)74.98.54.22 (talk) 06:07, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Osnaburg?
Translating the name results in "Oxbridge"... just like "Oxford", but with a bridge built next to the ford. I'd like to see a cite on "Osnaburg", that is. 80.171.41.168 (talk) 00:35, 20 June 2012 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if it's enough to justify inclusion, but according to the OED entry the spelling Osnaburg – plus more than two dozen other variations on this – was indeed in usage, appearing from as early as the mid 1400s onwards. However as it refers to the fabric associated with the town, my brief search didn't reveal any citations referring to the town itself. In any case, it seems likely both would have been referred to in the same way until people began to travel around more, and presumably most speakers of English wouldn't have had a great likelihood (let alone need) of stumbling across an etymologically correct version until very recent times. Helrasincke (talk) 05:45, 14 November 2021 (UTC)

NEW DATES
My corrected new Dates in the infobox will not be shown. Please correct it. Thanks -- Drahdiwaberling (talk) 06:25, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

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