Ragow-Merz
# Ragow-Merz

Ragow-Merz is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

## History

The municipality of Ragow-Merz was formed on 1 June 2002 by merging the municipalities of Ragow and Merz.

From 1815 to 1947, Ragow and Merz were part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg.

After World War II, the constituent localities of Ragow-Merz were incorporated into the State of Brandenburg from 1947 to 1952 and the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany from 1952 to 1990. Since 1990 Ragow and Merz are again part of Brandenburg, since 2002 united as the municipality of Ragow-Merz.

## Demography

* Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)

| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| - | - | - |
| 1875 | 667 | — |
| 1890 | 484 | −2.12% |
| 1910 | 459 | −0.26% |
| 1925 | 582 | +1.60% |
| 1933 | 510 | −1.64% |
| 1939 | 503 | −0.23% |
| 1946 | 660 | +3.96% |
| 1950 | 759 | +3.56% |
| 1964 | 605 | −1.61% |
| 1971 | 553 | −1.28% |
| 1981 | 478 | −1.45% |
| 1985 | 455 | −1.23% |
| 1989 | 461 | +0.33% |
| 1990 | 463 | +0.43% |
| 1991 | 464 | +0.22% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1992 | 453 | −2.37% |
| 1993 | 443 | −2.21% |
| 1994 | 463 | +4.51% |
| 1995 | 475 | +2.59% |
| 1996 | 500 | +5.26% |
| 1997 | 497 | −0.60% |
| 1998 | 526 | +5.84% |
| 1999 | 545 | +3.61% |
| 2000 | 560 | +2.75% |
| 2001 | 564 | +0.71% |
| 2002 | 573 | +1.60% |
| 2003 | 560 | −2.27% |
| 2004 | 539 | −3.75% |
| 2005 | 534 | −0.93% |
| 2006 | 510 | −4.49% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 2007 | 502 | −1.57% |
| 2008 | 506 | +0.80% |
| 2009 | 494 | −2.37% |
| 2010 | 478 | −3.24% |
| 2011 | 515 | +7.74% |
| 2012 | 516 | +0.19% |
| 2013 | 510 | −1.16% |
| 2014 | 504 | −1.18% |
| 2015 | 516 | +2.38% |
| 2016 | 507 | −1.74% |
| 2017 | 514 | +1.38% |
| 2018 | 514 | +0.00% |
| 2019 | 521 | +1.36% |
| 2020 | 527 | +1.15% |
