Parsberg is a town in the county of Neumarkt in

Bavaria Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...

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. It is 23 km southeast of Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz, and 33 km northwest of Regensburg, next to the A3 autobahn, the main route from

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

to Regensburg (and then on into

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). It was formerly the seat of the

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s of Parsberg, whose

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is now used by the town.

People

Ludwig Stiegler Ludwig Stiegler (born 9 April 1944 in Parsberg) is a German politician. He was chairman of the SPD's group in the Bundestag in 2002

(born 1945), German politician (SPD)

References

External links

History of Parsberg
(pdf in German)

* {{Authority control Neumarkt (district) Municipalities in Bavaria