Hirschberg () is a town in the
Saale-Orla-Kreis district, in
Thuringia
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Er ...
,
Germany
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. It is situated on the river
Saale
The Saale (), also known as the Saxon Saale ( ) and Thuringian Saale (), is a river in Germany and a left-bank tributary of the Elbe. It is not to be confused with the smaller Fränkische Saale, Franconian Saale, a right-bank tributary of the M ...
, 20 km south of
Schleiz, 12 km northwest of
Hof (
Bavaria
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), and 25 km southwest of
Plauen
Plauen (; ; ) is a town in Saxony, Germany with a population of around 65,000. It is Saxony's 5th most populated city after Leipzig, Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau, the second-largest city of the Vogtland after Gera, as well as the largest cit ...
(
Saxony
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).
History
File:Passportstempel DDR Hirschberg.jpg, Hirschberg crossing passport stamp.
Demographics, politics and government
Hirschberg is located next to the motorway
A 9 (
Berlin
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–
Munich
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). The city includes the subdivisions:
Juchhöh,
Göritz,
Sparnberg,
Ullersreuth and
Venzka.
Annexation of Subdivisions
The dates into the brackets are the first documentary citations.
* 1. January 1974:
Venzka (24. July 1348) with
Juchhöh (1713-1715)
* 8. March 1994:
Göritz (20. February 1282),
Sparnberg (1202) and
Ullersreuth (1246)
Population
Trend of population figures (reference
Thuringia State Office for Statistics
(German) is starting at 1994):
Culture
File:Hirschberg_(Saale)-2008-03a.jpg, Museum of Hirschberg
File:Hirschberg_(Saale)-2008-03b.jpg, Village Hall
See also
References
Towns in Thuringia
Inner German border
Saale-Orla-Kreis
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