Fürstenau, Lower Saxony

Fürstenau
Fürstenau
Town
	Church in Fürstenau
	Coat of arms
	Location of Fürstenau within Osnabrück district
Country	Germany
State	Lower Saxony
District	Osnabrück
Municipal assoc.	Fürstenau
Government
• Mayor	Herbert Gans (CDU)
Area
• Total	78.62 km2 (30.36 sq mi)
Elevation	52 m (171 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	9,736
• Density	120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	49584
Dialling codes	05901
Vehicle registration	OS
Website	www.fuerstenau.de

Fürstenau is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) northwest of Osnabrück, and 25 kilometres (16 mi) east of Lingen.

Fürstenau is also the seat of the Samtgemeinde ("collective municipality") Fürstenau.

St. Georg Evangelical Lutheran Church stands in the city market square. Pastor Anke Kusche tells the story of how during World War II the army required all the available metal for war products. The church bells which had rung daily for hundreds of years were taken down as required. But during the night one of them was stolen and buried until after the war in a farmer's field.

In the city clerks office hangs a painting of the city in the late 18th century. It is how the city still looks in December 2006.

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the city

Ida Raming (born 1932), Catholic theologian and author

Connected to the city

Eric of Brunswick-Grubenhagen (* 1478; † 14th May 1532 in Fürstenau) was from 1508 to 1532 principal bishop of Paderborn and Osnabrück and in 1532 elected bishop of Münster. He died in his Fürstenauer residence.
Conrad III. Of Diepholz (* in Diepholz, † 21 May 1482 in Fürstenau) was Bishop of Osnabrück from 1455 to 1482.

In 1532 he was bishop of Osnabrück and Münster, administrator of the University of Münster Minden and Cologne Cathedral.

Conrad VI. (Rietberg) († 9 February 1508) was bishop of Münster and Osnabrück.
John II of Hoya (* April 18, 1529 in Wiburg, † 5 April 1574 in Castle Ahaus) was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück, Münster and Paderborn. He expanded Fürstenauer Burg to a castle with parking facilities, which was his permanent residence.
Heinrich von Sachsen-Lauenburg (* 1 November 1550, † 22 April 1585 in Bremervörde) was the archbishop of Bremen (Henry III), Prince Bishop of Osnabrück (Heinrich & nbsp; Paderborn (Heinrich & nbsp; IV).
Bernhard von Waldeck (* 1561 in Landau, † March 11, 1591) was Bishop of Osnabrück.
Philipp Sigismund of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (* 1 July 1568 to Hesse Hesse, † 19 March 1623 in Iburg) was Prince-Bishop of Osnabrück and Verden.
Hans Christoph von Königsmarck (* March 4, 1600 in Kötzlin in the Altmark † 8 March 1663 in Stockholm) was a German army leader in Swedish services and sieged 1647 Fürstenau.
Michael Wilhelm Kobolt von Tambach († 1667) was military commander and drost of Fürstenau. In 1637, he directed the defense of Fürstenaus against the Landgrave Wilhelm of Hesse.
Dirk Hafemeister (born 1958). He won a Gold Medal in the "Jumping Team Mixed" at the Summer Olympics 1988 in Seoul. Another success with the German show jumping equipe is the world championship title 1994.
Luciana Diniz (born 1970) in São Paulo lives in Schwagstorf. Brazilian jumping competitor and participant of Olympic Summer Games 2004 in Athens and the World Cup 1994 The Hague.