Osnabruck meaning

ŏz'nə-bro͝ok', ôs'nä-brük'
A city of northwest Germany northeast of Münster. Established c. 780 by Charlemagne, it was a prosperous Hanseatic trading center in the Middle Ages, noted especially for its linen.
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City in NW Germany, in the state of Lower Saxony.
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Sentence Examples

  • Their remains were buried at Soissons, but were afterwards removed, partly by Charlemagne to Osnabruck (where a festival is observed annually on the 10th of June) and partly to the chapel of St Lawrence in Rome.

  • The court of Vienna had treated the Silesian Protestants with tyrannical severity, in direct contravention of the treaty of Osnabruck, of which Sweden was one of the guarantors; and Charles demanded summary and complete restitution so dictatorially that the emperor prepared for war.

  • LUDWIG WINDTHORST (1812-1891), German politician, was born on the 17th of January 1812 at Kaldenhof, a country house near Osnabruck.

  • He was educated at the Carolinum, an endowed school at Osnabruck, and studied at the universities of Gottingen and Heidelberg.

  • Windthorst's Ausgewahlte Reden were published in three volumes (Osnabruck, 1901-1902).

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