Kroppen

Kroppen
Municipality
Location of Kroppen within Oberspreewald-Lausitz district
Kroppen Kroppen
Coordinates: 51°22′59″N 13°48′00″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oberspreewald-Lausitz
Municipal assoc.	Ortrand
Subdivisions	2 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Reiner Krämer (CDU)
Area
• Total	15.16 km2 (5.85 sq mi)
Elevation	112 m (367 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	720
• Density	47/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	01945
Dialling codes	035755
Vehicle registration	OSL
Website	www.kroppen-osl.de

Kroppen is a municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in southern Brandenburg, 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)

Kroppen: Population development
within the current boundaries (2013)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 500 —     1890 540 +0.51% 1910 550 +0.09% 1925 589 +0.46% 1933 580 −0.19% 1939 707 +3.36% 1946 820 +2.14% 1950 908 +2.58% 1964 1,008 +0.75% 1971 971 −0.53% 1981 925 −0.48% 1985 916 −0.24% 1989 860 −1.56% 1990 848 −1.40% 1991 840 −0.94% 1992 835 −0.60% 1993 827 −0.96% 1994 826 −0.12% 1995 819 −0.85% 1996 823 +0.49%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1997 814 −1.09% 1998 828 +1.72% 1999 817 −1.33% 2000 825 +0.98% 2001 804 −2.55% 2002 775 −3.61% 2003 778 +0.39% 2004 770 −1.03% 2005 762 −1.04% 2006 753 −1.18% 2007 759 +0.80% 2008 746 −1.71% 2009 721 −3.35% 2010 721 +0.00% 2011 710 −1.53% 2012 697 −1.83% 2013 682 −2.15% 2014 679 −0.44% 2015 676 −0.44% 2016 678 +0.30%