Fürstenfeld (; hu, Fölöstöm) is a town and a district in southeastern

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

. It is situated within the Austrian

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Styria Styria (german: Steiermark ; Serbo-Croatian and sl, ; hu, Stájerország) is a state (''Bundesland'') in the southeast of Austria. With an area of , Styria is the second largest state of Austria, after Lower Austria. Styria is bordered to ...

, near the border of

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. According to the 2005 census, Fürstenfeld has 5,986 citizens within its communal area, the larger urban area of Fürstenfeld includes approximately 20% more citizens. It was the centre of an eponymous district until the end of 2012, when it was merged with Hartberg to form

Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District Hartberg-Fürstenfeld is a district in Styria, Austria. It came into effect on January 1, 2013, by merging of the districts of Hartberg and Fürstenfeld. Municipalities Since the 2015 Styria municipal structural reform, it consists of the followi ...

. Fürstenfeld was founded around 1170 as a fortress and received its town charter in 1215. Today it is known for its schools, middle-sized industry, and vicinity to several

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s (

Loipersdorf Loipersdorf may refer to: * Bad Loipersdorf in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld, Styria, Austria. * Loipersdorf-Kitzladen in Oberwart, Burgenland, Austria. * A thirteenth-century German language name for Štvrtok na Ostrove Štvrtok na Ostrove ( hu, Csal ...

, Bad Blumau,

Stegersbach Stegersbach ( hr, Santalek, hu, Szentelek) is a town in the district of Güssing in the Austrian state of Burgenland. Population International relations Its twin town is Northampton, Pennsylvania Northampton is a borough in Northampton Count ...

Geography

Fürstenfeld is located in the lower valley near the

Burgenland Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of ...

border. Elevation of the urban area ranges from 255m to approximately 300 m ü. A. The city`s central part sits on a river terrace two dozen meters above the valley floor.

History

First human traces in the Fürstenfeld area are attributed to the

Neolithic age The Neolithic period, or New Stone Age, is an Old World archaeological period and the final division of the Stone Age. It saw the Neolithic Revolution, a wide-ranging set of developments that appear to have arisen independently in several pa ...

. There are numerous

Urnfield culture The Urnfield culture ( 1300 BC – 750 BC) was a late Bronze Age culture of Central Europe, often divided into several local cultures within a broader Urnfield tradition. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and p ...

archaeological finds and the

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also found their way into the later Province of

Noricum Noricum () is the Latin name for the Celtic kingdom or federation of tribes that included most of modern Austria and part of Slovenia. In the first century AD, it became a province of the Roman Empire. Its borders were the Danube to the nort ...

bordering their Pannonia province. From the 6th century on, Slavs diffused into the Pannonic region and were followed by

Bavarian Bavarian is the adjective form of the German state of Bavaria, and refers to people of ancestry from Bavaria. Bavarian may also refer to: * Bavarii, a Germanic tribe * Bavarians, a nation and ethnographic group of Germans * Bavarian, Iran, a villag ...

settlers in the 8th century.

International relations

Twin towns — Sister cities

Fürstenfeld is

twinned Twinning (making a twin of) may refer to: * In biology and agriculture, producing two offspring (i.e., twins) at a time, or having a tendency to do so; * Twin towns and sister cities, towns and cities involved in town twinning * Twinning inst ...

with: *

Zug Zug (Standard German: , Alemannic German: ; french: Zoug it, Zugo rm, Zug New Latin: ''Tugium'')named in the 16th century is the largest town and capital of the Swiss canton of Zug in Switzerland. Its name originates from the fishing vocabulary ...

, Switzerland *

Körmend Körmend ( sl, Kermendin, Prekmurje Slovene: ''Karmadén,'' ger, Kirment) is a town in Vas county , Western Hungary. Places of interest The town is especially well known for its castle which used to belong to the Batthyány family, one of the ...

, Hungary * Vişeu de Sus, Romania *

Aindling Aindling is a market town in Aichach-Friedberg district, in Bavaria, southern Germany. Partner cities * Avord, France, since 1977 * Fürstenfeld, Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country ...

, Germany

People

* Anita *

Herbert Depisch Herbert may refer to: People Individuals * Herbert (musician), a pseudonym of Matthew Herbert Name * Herbert (given name) * Herbert (surname) Places Antarctica * Herbert Mountains, Coats Land * Herbert Sound, Graham Land Australia * Herbert, ...

Wilfried Elmenreich Wilfried Elmenreich (born 1973 in Fürstenfeld, Austria) is an Austrian researcher and professor of Smart Grids at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt. Biography Wilfried Elmenreich studied computer science at the Vienna University of Te ...

, researcher and university professor *

Hans Fronius Hans Fronius (12 September 1903 - 21 March 1988) was an Austrian painter and illustrator. He was born in Sarajevo, which was then a territory of Austria-Hungary (now Bosnia and Hercegovina). His father was descended from an old, aristocratic Tr ...

* Sissy Handler * Richard L. Heschl, born in Welsdorf * Markus Hirtler (alias Ermi-Oma), cabaret artist *

Max J. Hiti Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) ( ...

Max Keimel Max or MAX may refer to: Animals * Max (dog) (1983–2013), at one time purported to be the world's oldest living dog * Max (English Springer Spaniel), the first pet dog to win the PDSA Order of Merit (animal equivalent of OBE) * Max (gorilla) (1 ...

Karl Mader Karl may refer to: People * Karl (given name), including a list of people and characters with the name * Karl der Große, commonly known in English as Charlemagne * Karl Marx, German philosopher and political writer * Karl of Austria, last Austrian ...

, painter, graphic artist *

Bert Isatitsch Bert Isatitsch (September 14, 1911 – February 8, 1994) was an Austrian educator who later became the first president of the International Luge Federation (FIL), serving from its 1957 establishment until his 1994 death. Education career Born i ...

Katharina Paldauf Katharina is a feminine given name. It is a German form of Katherine (given name), Katherine. It may refer to: In television and film: *Katharina Bellowitsch, Austrian radio and TV presenter *Katharina Mückstein, Austrian film director *Katharin ...

(1625-1675) "flower witch" prosecuted during the Great Witch trial of Feldbach * (1913, Rudersdorf - 2003)Parlamentarische Materialien: Erklärung des Präsidenten Gottfried Jaud anlässlich des 50. Jahrestages der Gründung des Europarates. Stenografisches Protokoll der 654 Sitzung /Seite 42, http://www.parlament.gv.at/pd/steno/PG/DE/BR/BRSITZ/BRSITZ_00654/SEITE_0042.html?P_PM=SEITE_0042 * Helmut Röhrling (known as ""), member of

S.T.S. S.T.S. (also ''STS''; acronym for "Steinbäcker – Timischl – Schiffkowitz") was a three-member Austropop band from Graz in Austria. Its most famous songs are " Großvater", "Irgendwann bleib i dann dort", "Gö, du bleibst heut Nacht bei m ...

Emmerich Schreiner Emmerich may refer to: Places * Emmerich am Rhein, city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany ** Emmerich Rhine Bridge ** Emmerich station * Emmerich, Wisconsin, unincorporated community in the town of Berlin, Wisconsin, United States Other uses ...

* Hanna Schulze-Bauer *

Hannes Schulze-Bauer Hannes is a masculine given name and a diminutive of Johannes or Hannibal. Hannes may refer to: *Hannes Alfvén (1908–1995) Swedish chemist and Nobel-prize winner *Hannes Aigner (born 1989), German slalom canoeist and Olympic medalist *Hannes An ...

* (born 1948, Fürstenfeld), member of

Fritz Vogt The Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross (german: Ritterkreuz des Eisernen Kreuzes) and its variants were the highest awards in the military and paramilitary of Nazi Germany during World War II. The decoration was awarded for a wide range of reasons ...

Gregor von Rezzori Gregor von Rezzori (; May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998), born Gregor Arnulph Herbert Hilarius von Rezzori d’Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, ...

, studied in Fürstenfeld

References

Twin towns – sister cities

Komádi Komádi is a town in Hajdú-Bihar county, in the Northern Great Plain region of eastern Hungary. Geography It covers an area of and has a population Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a c ...

(

) *

Schweiz ; rm, citad federala, links=no). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzon ...

Vișeu de Sus Vișeu de Sus (; german: Oberwischau; hu, Felsővisó; ; , Ober Vishoi, Ojberwischo) is a town in Maramureș County, Maramureș, Romania, located at the confluence of the rivers Vișeu and Vaser. It administers one village, Vișeu de Mijloc ('' ...

, Rumänien *

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External links

Official website of Fürstenfeld
Cities and towns in Hartberg-Fürstenfeld District {{Styria-geo-stub