Fürstenau may refer to:
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Fürstenau, Lower Saxony
Fürstenau (Northern Low Saxon: ''Försnau'') is a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is situated approximately northwest of Osnabrück, and east of Lingen.
Fürstenau is also the seat of the ''Samtgemeinde ...
, a city in Lower Saxony, Germany
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Fürstenau (Samtgemeinde) Fürstenau is a ''Samtgemeinde'' ("collective municipality") in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous ...
, a municipality in the district of Osnabrück, in Lower Saxony, Germany
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Fürstenau (Altenberg) a quarter (''Ortsteil'') in
Altenberg, Saxony
Altenberg () is a town in the Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge district, in Saxony, Germany.
Geography
The town is situated in the Ore Mountains, 32 km south of Dresden, and 15 km northwest of Teplice, Czech Republic. The village of ...
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Fürstenau Castle, a historical castle in
Michelstadt
Michelstadt () in the Odenwald is a town in the Odenwaldkreis (district) in southern Hesse, Germany between Darmstadt and Heidelberg. It has a population of 28,629 people.
Geography
Location
Michelstadt is the biggest town in the Odenwaldkre ...
, Germany
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Fürstenau, Switzerland
Fürstenau ''( Romansh: Farschno)'' is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the smallest town to hold city rights with a market right received from Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor in 1354.
History
Fürs ...
;Former name for the following Polish places:
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Kmiecin
Kmiecin is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Nowy Dwór Gdański, within Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Nowy Dwór Gdański and south-east of the regi ...
, now within
Nowy Dwór Gdański County (formerly Fürstenau, Landkreis Elbing,
Pomerania
Pomerania ( pl, Pomorze; german: Pommern; Kashubian: ''Pòmòrskô''; sv, Pommern) is a historical region on the southern shore of the Baltic Sea in Central Europe, split between Poland and Germany. The western part of Pomerania belongs to ...
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Książęca Wieś, now within
Trzebnica County
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Trzebnica County ( pl, powiat trzebnicki) is a unit of territorial administration and local government (powiat) in Lower Silesian Voivodeship, south-western Poland. It came into being on January 1, 1999, as a result of the Polish local go ...
(formerly Fürstenau, Landkreis Militsch,
Lower Silesia Province (Prussia)
The Province of Lower Silesia (german: Provinz Niederschlesien; Silesian German: ''Provinz Niederschläsing''; pl, Prowincja Dolny Śląsk; szl, Prowincyjŏ Dolny Ślōnsk) was a province of the Free State of Prussia from 1919 to 1945. Between ...
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Anton Bernhard Fürstenau
Anton Bernhard Fürstenau (born 20 October 1792 in Münster; died 18 November 1852 in Dresden, Germany) was a German flutist and composer. He was the most famous virtuoso in Germany on his instrument and the most important Romantic flutist of the ...
(born 20 October 1792, Münster, Germany; died 18 November 1852, Dresden, Germany)
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Kaspar Fürstenau
Kaspar Fürstenau (26 February 177211 May 1819) was a German flautist and composer. He wrote about sixty compositions for his instrument among rondos, fantasias, suites and concertos. Together with his son Anton Bernhard Fürstenau he traveled ext ...
(born 26 February 1772; died 11 May 1819)
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Moritz Fürstenau
Moritz Ludwig Carl Ignaz Franz August Fürstenau (born 26 July 1824 and died on 27 March 1889, also in Dresden) was a German flautist and music historian. He left only a few works that gained little significance, but was extremely helpful as a thea ...
(born 26 June 1824; died 27 March 1889)
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