Rangsdorf

Rangsdorf is a municipality in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg in Germany. It has an airfield [up to 1940 a genuine commercial airport] from where on 20 July 1944 Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg took off on his fateful attempt to assassinate German leader Adolf Hitler at his military headquarters in East Prussia, the Wolfsschanze.

Rangsdorf
Coat of arms
Location of Rangsdorf within Teltow-Fläming district
Rangsdorf
Rangsdorf
Coordinates: 52°16′59″N 13°25′59″E
CountryGermany
StateBrandenburg
DistrictTeltow-Fläming
Subdivisions3 Ortsteile
Government
  MayorKlaus Rocher (FDP)
Area
  Total33.72 km2 (13.02 sq mi)
Elevation
36 m (118 ft)
Population
 (2019-12-31)[1]
  Total11,369
  Density340/km2 (870/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
15834
Dialling codes033708
Vehicle registrationTF
Websitewww.rangsdorf.de

Reich Minister of Armaments and Ammunition Fritz Todt was killed in a Heinkel He 111 crash departing the airfield on 8 February 1942.

Demography

Rangsdorf: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)[2]
YearPop.±% p.a.
1875 1,079    
1890 1,084+0.03%
1910 1,303+0.92%
1925 1,400+0.48%
1933 2,267+6.21%
1939 4,986+14.04%
1946 5,907+2.45%
1950 6,166+1.08%
1964 6,294+0.15%
1971 6,846+1.21%
1981 6,483−0.54%
1985 6,220−1.03%
1989 6,001−0.89%
1990 5,905−1.60%
1991 5,808−1.64%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1992 5,863+0.95%
1993 5,961+1.67%
1994 6,050+1.49%
1995 6,297+4.08%
1996 6,532+3.73%
1997 7,052+7.96%
1998 7,480+6.07%
1999 7,912+5.78%
2000 8,303+4.94%
2001 8,581+3.35%
2002 8,818+2.76%
2003 8,977+1.80%
2004 9,236+2.89%
2005 9,545+3.35%
2006 9,745+2.10%
YearPop.±% p.a.
2007 10,002+2.64%
2008 10,190+1.88%
2009 10,372+1.79%
2010 10,515+1.38%
2011 10,444−0.68%
2012 10,498+0.52%
2013 10,609+1.06%
2014 10,824+2.03%
2015 10,848+0.22%
2016 11,163+2.90%
2017 11,279+1.04%
2018 11,309+0.27%
2019 11,369+0.53%

References

  1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2019". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). July 2020.
  2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons
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