Spreenhagen

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

Spreenhagen
Location of Spreenhagen within Oder-Spree district
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Coordinates: 52°20′37″N 13°52′28″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oder-Spree
Municipal assoc.	Spreenhagen
Subdivisions	5 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Dr. Ralf-Eckhard Paesch (GfB)
Area
• Total	136.00 km^2 (52.51 sq mi)
Elevation	39 m (128 ft)
Population  (2019-12-31)[1]
• Total	3,460
• Density	25/km^2 (66/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	15528
Dialling codes	033633
Vehicle registration	LOS
Website	www.amt-spreenhagen.de

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 (2013)[2]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 3,137 —     1890 3,084 −0.11% 1910 3,511 +0.65% 1925 3,509 −0.00% 1933 3,539 +0.11% 1939 3,978 +1.97% 1946 3,821 −0.57% 1950 3,715 −0.70% 1964 3,058 −1.38% 1971 3,063 +0.02% 1981 3,133 +0.23% 1985 3,112 −0.17% 1989 3,170 +0.46% 1990 3,116 −1.70% 1991 3,092 −0.77% 1992 3,087 −0.16% 1993 3,057 −0.97% 1994 3,222 +5.40% 1995 3,204 −0.56% 1996 3,221 +0.53%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1997 3,238 +0.53% 1998 3,303 +2.01% 1999 3,402 +3.00% 2000 3,463 +1.79% 2001 3,512 +1.41% 2002 3,549 +1.05% 2003 3,540 −0.25% 2004 3,534 −0.17% 2005 3,535 +0.03% 2006 3,534 −0.03% 2007 3,526 −0.23% 2008 3,494 −0.91% 2009 3,473 −0.60% 2010 3,441 −0.92% 2011 3,250 −5.55% 2012 3,245 −0.15% 2013 3,208 −1.14% 2014 3,226 +0.56% 2015 3,229 +0.09% 2016 3,232 +0.09%

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 139 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 2019". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). July 2020.
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