Rathenow

Overview

The Protestant church of St. Marien Andreas, originally a basilica, and transformed to the Gothic style in 1517-1589, and the Roman Catholic Church of St. George, are noteworthy.

Rathenow is known for being the former capital of eyewear manufacturing in East Germany. It is also known for its stones, called Rathenow stones.

History

In 1675, during the Scanian War, it was the site of a battle between Swedish and Brandenburgian forces.

During World War II, Rathenow was the location of a forced labour subcamp of the Nazi prison for women and juveniles in Berlin-Lichtenberg and a subcamp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. Prisoners of the latter were mostly Dutch, Belgian and French.

Demographics

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Rathenow.pdf|Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Rathenow.pdf|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 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

within the current boundaries (2020) | 1875 | 12443 | 1890 | 18841 | 1910 | 29125 | 1925 | 32056 | 1939 | 37449 | 1950 | 32254 | 1964 | 31083 | 1971 | 31834 | 1981 | 33952 | 1985 | 33312 | 1990 | 31945 | 1995 | 30498 | 2000 | 28811 | 2005 | 26973 | 2010 | 25301 | 2015 | 24387 | 2016 | 24243 | 2017 | 24309 | 2018 | 24309 | 2019 | 24208 | 2020 | 24179

Twin towns — sister cities

Rathenow is twinned with:

• POL Złotów, Poland
• GER Rendsburg, Germany

Notable people

• Christian Beeck (born 1971), footballer
• Stephan Bodecker (1384–1459), Bishop of Brandenburg
• Jörg Friedrich (rower) (born 1959), rower
• Jörg Freimuth (born 1961), high jumper
• Jörg Heinrich (born 1969), football player and manager
• Wulf Herzogenrath (born 1944), art historian and curator
• Rosemarie Köhn (1939–2022), 1993-2006 Bishop of Hamar (Norway) (world's second woman as a Lutheran bishop)
• Joachim Mrugowsky (1905–1948), physician and Nazi war criminal; executed
• Mario Streit (born 1967), rower
• Immo Stabreit (born 1933), diplomat
• George William Ziemann (1809–1881), Christian Missionary

References

References

1. [https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/bm-wahlen/ergebnisse/~12063000 Landkreis Havelland Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters] {{Webarchive. link. (2021-07-09 , accessed 13 November 2022.)
2. "Außenkommando des Frauen- und Jugendgefängnisses Berlin-Lichtenberg in Rathenow bei der Emil Busch AG Optische Industrie".
3. Megargee, Geoffrey P.. (2009). "The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos 1933–1945. Volume I". Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
4. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Population_projection_Brandenburg Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons]