Stadt Osnabrück – Die Friedensstadt 2023

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View from the Marienkirchturm to the market place

© Janin Arntzen

375 Years of the Peace of Westphalia

7 months - 7 themes: 200 events from April to October

To the anniversary program 2023

7 months, 7 topics

Seven themes in seven months: From April to October, each month has a focus that revolves particularly around a peace theme. The monthly theme weeks form the common thread of the anniversary program. All themes are united by one question: What can we take away and learn from the historic peace treaty of 1648 for the present and ultimately the future?

Everything about the city of peace Osnabrück

Youth Contest on June 304/27/2023
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Lyudmila Ulitskaya receives the Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize 202304/14/2023
© Stadt Osnabrück, Jan Meyer-Lamp
In silver and gold: special coinage "375 Years of the Peace of Westphalia" shows Osnabrück City Hall03/02/2023

Experience peace - cycling route between Münster and Osnabrück

It is the route of the peace riders who rode back and forth between the two cities to deliver dispatches in the five years before the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. At over 150 kilometers, the Peace Route is a multi-day tour.

Erich Maria Remarque Peace Prize

The Peace Award stands for people who build bridges in hopeless conflict situations.

Erich Maria Remarque, 1963, Foto: Paul Swiridoff

Peace of Westphalia

This peace agreement was hard fought for. The result still serves as a model today.