Sparnberg is a village in

Thuringia Thuringia (; german: Thüringen ), officially the Free State of Thuringia ( ), is a state of central Germany, covering , the sixth smallest of the sixteen German states. It has a population of about 2.1 million. Erfurt is the capital and lar ...

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. It was an independent municipality until 1994, when it became a district of the town Hirschberg.Statistik Thüringen
Gebietsveränderungen: Sparnberg It is situated on the right bank of the river

Saale The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale (german: Sächsische Saale) and Thuringian Saale (german: Thüringische Saale), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Franconian Saale ...

, at 440 m above sea level. It has an area of about 333 hectares. Sparnberg counted about 160 residents in 2005. Sparnberg 1980s

From 1949 to 1990 the Saale formed the

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between

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(GDR) and

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(FRG) here, with Sparnberg on the GDR side.

References

{{Authority control Saale-Orla-Kreis Former municipalities in Thuringia