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Ortrand Latitude and Longitude:
51°22′00″N 13°46′59″E / 51.36667°N 13.78306°E / 51.36667; 13.78306
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Ortrand
Town
Train station
Train station
Coat of arms of Ortrand
Coat of arms
Location of Ortrand within Oberspreewald-Lausitz district
Saxony Cottbus Dahme-Spreewald Elbe-Elster Spree-Neiße Teltow-Fläming Altdöbern Bronkow Calau Frauendorf Großkmehlen Großräschen Grünewald Guteborn Hermsdorf Hohenbocka Kroppen Lauchhammer Lindenau Lübbenau Luckaitztal Neupetershain Neu-Seeland Ortrand Ruhland Schipkau Schwarzbach Schwarzheide Senftenberg Tettau Vetschau
Ortrand is located in Germany
Ortrand
Ortrand
Ortrand is located in Brandenburg
Ortrand
Ortrand
Coordinates: 51°22′00″N 13°46′59″E / 51.36667°N 13.78306°E / 51.36667; 13.78306
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Oberspreewald-Lausitz
Municipal assoc. Ortrand
Government
 •  Mayor (2019–24) Niko Gebel [1] ( CDU)
Area
 • Total7.34 km2 (2.83 sq mi)
Elevation
110 m (360 ft)
Population
 (2022-12-31) [2]
 • Total2,057
 • Density280/km2 (730/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 ( CET)
 • Summer ( DST) UTC+02:00 ( CEST)
Postal codes
01990
Dialling codes035755
Vehicle registrationOSL
Website www.stadt-ortrand.de

Ortrand ( pronunciation ⓘ; Upper Sorbian: Wótrań, pronounced [ˈwʊtʁajn]) is a town in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated 24 km southwest of Senftenberg, and 36 km north of Dresden.

History

From 1815 to 1944, Ortrand was part of the Prussian Province of Saxony and from 1944 to 1945 of the Province of Halle-Merseburg. From 1947 to 1952 it was part of Saxony-Anhalt and from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.

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)
Ortrand: Population development
within the current boundaries (2013) [3]
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1875 1,739—    
1890 1,793+0.20%
1910 2,054+0.68%
1925 2,288+0.72%
1933 2,416+0.68%
1939 2,574+1.06%
1946 3,268+3.47%
1950 3,259−0.07%
1964 3,143−0.26%
1971 3,152+0.04%
1981 3,049−0.33%
1985 3,070+0.17%
1989 2,946−1.03%
1990 2,839−3.63%
1991 2,846+0.25%
1992 2,802−1.55%
1993 2,776−0.93%
1994 2,744−1.15%
1995 2,739−0.18%
1996 2,740+0.04%
Year Pop. ±% p.a.
1997 2,721−0.69%
1998 2,716−0.18%
1999 2,680−1.33%
2000 2,634−1.72%
2001 2,601−1.25%
2002 2,570−1.19%
2003 2,539−1.21%
2004 2,544+0.20%
2005 2,504−1.57%
2006 2,430−2.96%
2007 2,370−2.47%
2008 2,316−2.28%
2009 2,295−0.91%
2010 2,265−1.31%
2011 2,257−0.35%
2012 2,213−1.95%
2013 2,196−0.77%
2014 2,164−1.46%
2015 2,154−0.46%
2016 2,144−0.46%

Sons and daughters of the town

  • Paul Lindau (1881-1945), sculptor
  • Lutz Heßlich (born 1959), track racing cyclist, Olympic champion 1980 and 1988
  • Gloria Siebert (born 1964), hurdler

References

  1. ^ Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters, accessed 2 July 2021.
  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


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