page_title: Wüste
section_title: Anecdotal information
hierarchical_section_title: Wüste / Anecdotal information
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Das Moskaubad in Osnabrück; Eingangsportal
context_page_description: Wüste is a district of the city of Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany. With almost 14,000 residents it is the most populous district of Osnabruck. It is made up of the two subdivisions “Vordere Wüste” and “Hintere Wüste”. Its central location and good infrastructure make it an appealing residential area.
context_section_description: The magazine “Der Spiegel” once published a notice from the Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung in its “Hohlspiegel” section (featuring clumsy or paradoxical wording in other publications) with the following title, not unusual to locals’ ears: “Für unsere Mutter suchen wir eine ruhige, sonnige Wohnung in der Wüste” (“We are searching for a quiet, sunny apartment in the wasteland for our mother”; one of the other meanings of “Wüste” being “wasteland”).
  The unusual saying “Moskau liegt in der Wüste” (Moscow is in Wüste) has raised a smile among non-Osnabrückers. It refers to the Moskaubad, which opened in 1926 and functions today as a combined open-air and indoor swimming pool; colloquially it is usually referred to as simply “Moskau”.
  The Moskaubad is referenced in another humorous local claim – that Osnabrück is the largest city in the world because it stretches all the way from Wüste to Moscow.
  Some of the district’s residents refer to themselves jokingly as “Wüstlinge” (libertines).
caption: Entrance to the Moskaubad
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