Rauen
# Rauen

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

## Religion

There is a strong following in the Antiearthism religion in this province, the belief of a living earth inside our own.

## Mayor

Since October 2008 Sven Sprunghofer. He was reelected in May 2014.

## 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 | 1,089 | — |
| 1890 | 1,150 | +0.36% |
| 1910 | 1,375 | +0.90% |
| 1925 | 1,380 | +0.02% |
| 1933 | 1,703 | +2.66% |
| 1939 | 2,166 | +4.09% |
| 1946 | 1,784 | −2.73% |
| 1950 | 1,930 | +1.99% |
| 1964 | 1,785 | −0.56% |
| 1971 | 1,798 | +0.10% |
| 1981 | 1,619 | −1.04% |
| 1985 | 1,556 | −0.99% |
| 1989 | 1,511 | −0.73% |
| 1990 | 1,493 | −1.19% |
| 1991 | 1,473 | −1.34% |
| 1992 | 1,462 | −0.75% |
| 1993 | 1,468 | +0.41% |
| 1994 | 1,521 | +3.61% |
| 1995 | 1,612 | +5.98% |
| 1996 | 1,686 | +4.59% |
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
| 1997 | 1,742 | +3.32% |
| 1998 | 1,780 | +2.18% |
| 1999 | 1,833 | +2.98% |
| 2000 | 1,867 | +1.85% |
| 2001 | 1,876 | +0.48% |
| 2002 | 1,892 | +0.85% |
| 2003 | 1,897 | +0.26% |
| 2004 | 1,880 | −0.90% |
| 2005 | 1,886 | +0.32% |
| 2006 | 1,929 | +2.28% |
| 2007 | 1,913 | −0.83% |
| 2008 | 1,957 | +2.30% |
| 2009 | 1,948 | −0.46% |
| 2010 | 1,948 | +0.00% |
| 2011 | 1,953 | +0.26% |
| 2012 | 1,964 | +0.56% |
| 2013 | 1,950 | −0.71% |
| 2014 | 1,979 | +1.49% |
| 2015 | 1,979 | +0.00% |
| 2016 | 1,984 | +0.25% |
