Germany(Lower Saxony) - Osnabrück

Osnabrück is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, some 100 kilometres (62 miles) NNE of Dortmund, 50 km (31 miles) NE of Münster, and some 130 km (81 miles) due west of Hanover. It lies in a valley penned between the Wiehen Hills and the northern tip of the Teutoburg Forest.

Views from Osnabrück

The Osnabrück University is a public research university located in the city of Osnabrück in Lower Saxony, Germany.

Higher education began in 1632 in Osnabrück when the Gymnasium Carolinum was upgraded into a Jesuit university. However, the Academia Carolina Osnabrugensis was closed just one year later when Swedish troops recaptured Osnabrück for the Protestant side in the Thirty Years' War.

The government of the state of Lower Saxony decided to set up a university in Osnabrück in 1970, and by 1973 had laid down the legal basis for such an institution. The university opened for the summer semester in 1974 as a successor institution to the Adolf Reichwein Teachers' College, which had occupied the former palace of the Prince-Bishopric since 1953.