title: Rauen
text: # 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% |
  