Rüdnitz

Rüdnitz
Municipality
Location of Rüdnitz within Barnim district
Rüdnitz Rüdnitz
Coordinates: 52°43′00″N 13°37′00″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Barnim
Municipal assoc.	Biesenthal-Barnim
Government
• Mayor (2024–29)	Andreas Hoffmann
Area
• Total	13.79 km2 (5.32 sq mi)
Elevation	61 m (200 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	2,039
• Density	150/km2 (380/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC 01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC 02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	16321
Dialling codes	03338
Vehicle registration	BAR

Rüdnitz is a municipality in the district of Barnim in the state of Brandenburg, Germany.

History

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

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)

Rüdnitz: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 408 —     1890 400 −0.13% 1910 769 3.32% 1925 708 −0.55% 1933 755 0.81% 1939 888 2.74% 1946 1,088 2.94% 1950 1,188 2.22% 1964 1,167 −0.13% 1971 1,327 1.85% 1981 1,225 −0.80% 1985 1,123 −2.15% 1989 1,084 −0.88% 1990 1,057 −2.49% 1991 1,055 −0.19%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1992 1,040 −1.42% 1993 1,069 2.79% 1994 1,171 9.54% 1995 1,337 14.18% 1996 1,509 12.86% 1997 1,637 8.48% 1998 1,768 8.00% 1999 1,777 0.51% 2000 1,811 1.91% 2001 1,906 5.25% 2002 1,976 3.67% 2003 1,923 −2.68% 2004 1,882 −2.13% 2005 1,822 −3.19% 2006 1,790 −1.76%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2007 1,767 −1.28% 2008 1,800 1.87% 2009 1,839 2.17% 2010 1,899 3.26% 2011 1,927 1.47% 2012 1,945 0.93% 2013 1,955 0.51% 2014 1,967 0.61% 2015 1,980 0.66% 2016 1,925 −2.78% 2017 1,983 3.01% 2018 1,972 −0.55% 2019 1,989 0.86% 2020 2,032 2.16%

Personalities

• Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1831-1910), pastor, founded the first dwelling Hoffnungstal Foundation Lobetal in Rüdnitz in 1905
• Kurt Kretschmann (1914-2007), conservationist, lived in time in Rüdnitz