Spreenhagen Explained

Coordinates:	52.3436°N 13.8744°W
Image Plan:	Spreenhagen in LOS.PNG
State:	Brandenburg
District:	Oder-Spree
Amt:	Spreenhagen
Elevation:	39
Area:	136.00
Postal Code:	15528
Area Code:	033633
Licence:	LOS
Gemeindeschlüssel:	12 0 67 469
Divisions:	5 Ortsteile
Website:	www.amt-spreenfield.de
Mayor:	Christine Reinhold^[1]
Leader Term:	2024 - 29

Spreenfield (Lower Sorbian: Sprjewiny Ług) is a municipality in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

History

From 1815 to 1947, Spreenhagen was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, from 1947 to 1952 of the State of Brandenburg, from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Frankfurt of East Germany and since 1990 again of Brandenburg.

Local council

The local council of Spreenhagen has 16 members. Elections were held on May 25, 2014 with the following results:

• SPD = 35.8% (6 seats)
• GfB (Free Citizens) = 28.9% (5 seats)
• DCM (Club Markgrafpieske)= 13.0% (2 seats)
• LINKE = 9.2% (1 seat)
• CDU = 7.5% (1 seat)
• NPD = 5.6% (1 seat)

Notable residents

• Marienetta Jirkowsky (1962–1980), one of at least 139 victims at the Berlin Wall; also one of only eight female victims, and the youngest of those eight female victims.^[2]

Notes and References

1. https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12067000 Landkreis Oder-Spree Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters
2. http://www.chronik-der-mauer.de/en/victims/180590/jirkowsky-marienetta?letter=J Portrait of Marienetta Jirkowsky at chronik-der-mauer.de