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4 Oldenburg Stone Age, with megalithic
graves from 3,500 to 1,800 BC,
Road map B2. * 160,000. £
n Schloßplatz (0441 36 16 13 66). _ including the 80-m (262-ft) long
Hafenfest (7 days after Whitsun); grave known as “Visbeker
Altstadtfest (end Aug); Kramermarkt Bräutigam” (bridegroom) and
(Sep/Oct). ∑ oldenburg.de the even larger, 100-m (321-ft)
long “Visbeker Braut” (bride).
A thousand years old, and once
part of Denmark, this town E Museumsdorf Cloppenburg
remained the seat of a duchy Bether Straße 6. Tel (04471) 948 40.
until 1918. Open Mar–Oct: 9am–6pm daily,
The Lambertikirche, in the Nov–Feb: 9am–4:30pm daily. &
central market square, is a
late-Gothic hall-church with a
Neo-Classical rotunda added in A windmill in the open-air museum 6 Osnabrück
1797. The Schloß, the ducal in Cloppenburg Road map B3. * 157,000. £
residence, displays a similar n Bierstraße. 22–23 (0541-32 32
marriage of styles, particularly 5 Cloppenburg 202). _ Herbstjahrmarkt (early Nov).
Baroque and Neo-Classical. Road map B3. * 29,000. n Esch- ∑ osnabrueck.de
The Landesmuseum für Kunst straße 29 (04471-152 56). _ Mariä
und Kulturge schichte (state Geburtsmarkt (Sep). This Westphalian town has been
museum of art and culture), a bishop’s see since the time of
based in the castle, is known The small market town of Charlemagne. In 1648, nego-
mainly for its collection of Cloppenburg boasts the tiations took place here between
paintings assem bled by Wilhelm Museumsdorf, the oldest open- representatives of Sweden and
Tischbein, who lived here air museum in the Protestant duchies
for 25 years. The affiliated Germany, established of the Reich. The
Augusteum, a Neo-Renaissance in 1934. On a vast site, signing of the Peace of
building in a picturesque spot, 50 architectural Westphalia in 1648,
holds the museum’s modern monuments from all which ended the Thirty
collection. over Lower Saxony Years’ War, was announ-
have been assembled. ced from the town hall
E Landesmuseum für Kunst There are houses, steps. It was also the
und Kulturgeschichte including charming birthplace of the writer
Damm 1. Tel (0441) 220 73 00. examples of the half- Erich Maria Remarque
Open 10am–6pm Tue–Sun. timbered style of in 1899.
Closed 1 Jan, Good Friday, Easter, Wehlburg, windmills Despite damage in
1 May, 24, 25 & 31 Dec. & and a small World War II, Dom St
17th-century church Epitaph for Albert von Peter, Osnabrück’s
Environs from Klein-Escherde Bevessen in the Dom 13th-century cathedral,
The town of Bad Zwischenahn near Hildesheim. in Osnabrück is worth visiting. It has
is worth a visit. Its star attraction To the east of a bronze baptismal
is the Gothic St Johannis kirche Cloppenburg lies Visbek. Here font and enormous triumphal
with frescoes from 1512. the visitor is taken back to the cross, and the late-Gothic
Snetlage-Altar of the Crucifixion.
From here a short walk takes
the visitor to the market square,
Marienkirche and the Gothic
Rathaus (town hall), with a
sculpture of Charlemagne.
Environs
South of Osnabrück is the
western part of the Teutoburger
Wald (Teutoburg Forest). The
spa town of Bad Iburg, 12 km
(8 miles) to the south of
Osnabrück, has a monumental
Benedictine monastery and
bishop’s palace. The Rittersaal
(knights’ hall) has a giant
ceiling fresco depict ing an
architectural fantasy of fore-
The Schloß in Oldenburg, featuring Baroque and Neo-Classical styles shortened perspectives.

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