Spreenhagen

Spreenhagen
Spreenhagen
Location of Spreenhagen within Oder-Spree district
Coordinates: 52°20′37″N 13°52′28″E / 52.34361°N 13.87444°ECoordinates: 52°20′37″N 13°52′28″E / 52.34361°N 13.87444°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oder-Spree
Municipal assoc.	Spreenhagen
Government
• Mayor	Dr. Ralf-Eckhard Paesch (GfB)
Area
• Total	136.00 km^2 (52.51 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	3,229
• Density	24/km^2 (61/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	15528
Dialling codes	033633
Vehicle registration	LOS
Website	www.amt-spreenhagen.de

Spreenhagen (Lower Sorbian: Sprjewiny Ług) is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Demography

Development of population since 1875 within the current boundaries (Blue line: Population; Dotted line: Comparison to population development of Brandenburg state; Grey background: Time of Nazi rule; Red background: Time of communist rule)

Spreenhagen:
Population development within the current boundaries^[2]

Year Population 1875 3 137 1890 3 084 1910 3 511 1925 3 509 1933 3 539 1939 3 978 1946 3 821 1950 3 715 1964 3 058 1971 3 063

Year Population 1981 3 133 1985 3 112 1989 3 170 1990 3 116 1991 3 092 1992 3 087 1993 3 057 1994 3 222 1995 3 204 1996 3 221

Year Population 1997 3 238 1998 3 303 1999 3 402 2000 3 463 2001 3 512 2002 3 549 2003 3 540 2004 3 534 2005 3 535 2006 3 534

Year Population 2007 3 526 2008 3 494 2009 3 473 2010 3 441 2011 3 250 2012 3 245 2013 3 208

Local council

The local council of Spreenhagen has 16 members. Elections were held on May 25, 2014 with the following results:

• SPD = 35.8% (6 seats)
• GfB (Free Citizens) = 28.9% (5 seats)
• DCM (Club Markgrafpieske)= 13.0% (2 seats)
• LINKE = 9.2% (1 seat)
• CDU = 7.5% (1 seat)
• NPD = 5.6% (1 seat)

Notable Residents

• Marienetta Jirkowsky (1962–1980), one of at least 138 victims at the Berlin Wall; also one of only eight female victims, and the youngest of those eight female victims..^[3]

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2015 (Fortgeschriebene amtliche Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2016.
2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons
3. Portrait of Marienetta Jirkowsky at chronik-der-mauer.de