Spreenhagen

Municipality in Brandenburg, Germany

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

History

From 1815 to 1947, Spreenhagen was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, from 1947 to 1952 of the State of Brandenburg, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany and since 1990 again of Brandenburg.

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)

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.^[4]

References

1. Landkreis Oder-Spree Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters. Retrieved 10 July 2024.
2. "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bevölkerungsstandim Land Brandenburg Dezember 2022" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2023.
3. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons
4. Portrait of Marienetta Jirkowsky at chronik-der-mauer.de