Rheinsberg

Rheinsberg
Rheinsberg
Town
	Schloss Rheinsberg
	Coat of arms
	Location of Rheinsberg within Ostprignitz-Ruppin district
	Rheinsberg Rheinsberg
	Coordinates: 53°5′54″N 12°53′45″E / 53.09833°N 12.89583°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Ostprignitz-Ruppin
Subdivisions	17 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Frank-Rudi Schwochow
Area
• Total	324.83 km2 (125.42 sq mi)
Elevation	61 m (200 ft)
Population (2022-12-31)
• Total	7,948
• Density	24/km2 (63/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	16831
Dialling codes	033931
Vehicle registration	OPR
Website	www.rheinsberg.de

Rheinsberg (German: [ˈʁaɪ̯nsˌbɛʁk] ^ⓘ) is a town and a municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is located on lake Grienericksee [de] and the river Rhin, approximately 20 km north-east of Neuruppin and 75 km north-west of Berlin.

History

Frederick the Great, while still Crown Prince, designed and moved into a restored chateau in Rheinsberg shortly after his 1733 marriage to Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Bevern. Here he experienced his "Rheinsberg Period", an era marked by regular correspondence with Voltaire, boisterous celebration in the company of minor philosophers and musicians, and the writing of several works of political theory, including the Anti-Machiavel.^[2]

In 1870, the painter Eduard Gaertner and his family decided to leave the hectic atmosphere of Berlin and settle in Flecken Zechlin, a suburb of Rheinsberg - where he lived until his death in 1877.

Rheinsberg is the location for Kurt Tucholsky's Rheinsberg, a 1912 picture book for lovers based on an autobiographical weekend trip.

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)
Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2014-2030 (red line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)

Rheinsberg: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)^[3]

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1875	7,461	—
1890	7,554	+0.08%
1910	8,015	+0.30%
1925	8,263	+0.20%
1933	8,681	+0.62%
1939	9,063	+0.72%
1946	11,268	+3.16%
1950	11,188	−0.18%
1964	10,391	−0.53%
1971	10,450	+0.08%
1981	9,635	−0.81%
1985	9,612	−0.06%
1989	9,681	+0.18%
1990	9,700	+0.20%
1991	9,477	−2.30%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1992	9,362	−1.21%
1993	9,469	+1.14%
1994	9,387	−0.87%
1995	9,390	+0.03%
1996	9,388	−0.02%
1997	9,454	+0.70%
1998	9,395	−0.62%
1999	9,414	+0.20%
2000	9,374	−0.42%
2001	9,320	−0.58%
2002	9,280	−0.43%
2003	9,198	−0.88%
2004	9,085	−1.23%
2005	9,005	−0.88%
2006	8,889	−1.29%

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
2007	8,814	−0.84%
2008	8,705	−1.24%
2009	8,579	−1.45%
2010	8,466	−1.32%
2011	8,254	−2.50%
2012	8,179	−0.91%
2013	8,120	−0.72%
2014	8,029	−1.12%
2015	8,153	+1.54%
2016	8,161	+0.10%
2017	8,111	−0.61%
2018	8,015	−1.18%
2019	8,007	−0.10%