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...whether you would like to explore
the city individually or with a group, there is a corresponding offer for everybody.
Osnabrück offers a multiplicity of different city guidance, here you can find a small choice of the extensive program, you should plan something special, do not hesitate to contact us:
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The Watchman Guidance
| When in 1913 the last night watchman pulled his rounds by the city, an almost 250-year-old tradition ended. The so-called auxiliary police sergeant took care not only for the peace and order on the nighttime streets, but he also had to intervene at danger of fire and "unauthorised muck heaps". Today you can go with the night watchman through the dark streets of the city and experience Osnabrück in a quite special light - in the candlelight.With small lantern in the hand you accompany the representative of the law to the Bucksturm, the military peels, the peace hall and on the observation deck of the Marienkirchturms. |
City Hall and Old Town Guidance
| The guidance offers in entertaining kind an overview on the history and present of the city of Osnabrück. Moreover, many specific features which this city offers are further explained. Half-timbered houses and stone works (a unique construction form) line the streets of the Old Town and turn the walk into a special experience. By the guidance the Market place with the Gothic church Saint Marien and the City Hall must not be skipped. Still today the portraits of the "peace wrights" which sealed in 1648 the Westphalian peace after nearly 5-year negotiations are to be seen in the Peace Hall. |
On the mail coach
| ...through Osnabrück - two an hour city tour under expert guidance. |
Book Tower Guidance
| The Book tower was built at the beginning of 13th century as a watch-tower within the city wall. Originally it was the highest anchorage tower of the city. Today the first floor of a small wax room is based. The "Johanniskasten" on the 2nd floor of the tower reminds of the fact that the tower was also used as a prison. Its name talks about its probably most spectacular prisoner: Johann von Hoya, who was a prisoner there for 6 years, from 1441 to 1447.During the witch's pursuits in the 16th and 17th century the Book tower served, furthermore, as a torture chamber. In the exhibition the ideological backgrounds and the procedure about how women were caught and tortured in former times in the suction of the witch's pursuit are represented. |
The Witch’s Pursuits
| Why just women?This question stretches like a "red thread" during the guidance. Since almost exclusively women victims of denunciation, torture and execution become in the 16th and 17th century.The guidance is an attempt to show these ideological forces and social changes which pulled "only women" in the train of the pursuit and how these women were delivered helplessly to the judiciary. |
By now we wish you a lot of fun on
your investigation tour around Osnabrück
Your Walhalla Team
For further information please do not
hesitate to contact us at any time:
Romantik Hotel Walhalla
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