Große Straße

 Germany > Lower Saxony > Osnabrück

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Around 1910, the Große Straße ("Great Street") in Osnabrück had become a veritable shopping street. A decisive change had brought the light rail transit system in 1906: Both lines led to the Große Straße, which now had the ideal conditions in terms of accessibility to potential customers. The advertisements spreading like wildfire helped customers finding the right house, in the form of oversized signboards, through taped special offers crossing over the shop windows, or through expenses in the growing department store windows. Given this modernity, the remaining old buildings seemed almost out of place. Demolished were the houses Nos. 65 (House J. Roth) and 64 (house right next to it). For orientation, note the building with the curved gable construction No. 62, which has remained in almost unchanged form to this day