Rhinow

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title: "Rhinow" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["localities-in-havelland-(district)"] topic_path: "general/localities-in-havelland-district" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinow" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
type	Stadt
image_coa	Wappen_Rhinow.PNG
coordinates
image_plan	Rhinow in HVL.png
state	Brandenburg
district	Havelland
Amt	Rhinow
elevation	30
area	31.66
postal_code	14728
area_code	033875
licence	HVL
Gemeindeschlüssel	12063260
website	www.rhinow.de
mayor	Stefan Schneider
leader_term	2024–29
party	SPD
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Geography

The region lies on the southern edge of the Rhinluch (Rhin moor) and at the feet of the up to 110 Meter high Rhinower Mountains. The Rhin river flows west through the district into the Gülper See at the southwestern border. Federal highway (Bundesstraße) 102 cuts through the area. Since 2003, the stretch between Rathenow and Neustadt (Dosse) is no longer served by public rail transit (Öffentlichen Personennahverkehr).

Administrative division

Greater Rhinow includes the village of Kietz.

History

During the Third Reich, a famous sail plane school was founded in memory of Otto Lilienthal.

Demography

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ec/Bevölkerungsentwicklung_Rhinow.pdf" caption="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)"] ::

|align=none | cols=2 | percentages=pagr |title = Rhinow: Population development within the current boundaries (2013) | 1875 | 1397 | 1890 | 1512 | 1910 | 1540 | 1925 | 1533 | 1933 | 1551 | 1939 | 1713 | 1946 | 2728 | 1950 | 2553 | 1964 | 2051 | 1971 | 2052 | 1981 | 2198 | 1985 | 2213 | 1989 | 2222 | 1990 | 2146 | 1991 | 2090 | 1992 | 2065 | 1993 | 2086 | 1994 | 2070 | 1995 | 2103 | 1996 | 2111 | 1997 | 2154 | 1998 | 2165 | 1999 | 2146 | 2000 | 2101 | 2001 | 2021 | 2002 | 2012 | 2003 | 1967 | 2004 | 1959 | 2005 | 1933 | 2006 | 1874 | 2007 | 1821 | 2008 | 1758 | 2009 | 1714 | 2010 | 1716 | 2011 | 1695 | 2012 | 1667 | 2013 | 1640 | 2014 | 1649 | 2015 | 1625 | 2016 | 1614

Politics

City Council

The council of the city of Rhinow has 12 members with the following distribution by political party:

FDP 6 seats
SPD 3 seats
CDU 2 seats
Die Linke 1 seat

(As of elections held on September 28, 2008)

Elections in 2014:

SPD: 4
FDP: 2
The Left: 2
CDU: 1
Single candidates: 3

Architecture

101 Meter high radio tower belonging to Deutsche Telekom AG constructed from reinforced concrete with uncustomary asymmetry at 52° 44′ 45″ N, 12° 21′ 7″ E, was built during the Soviet era.

Personalities

Otto Lilienthal (1848-1896), settled in Rhinow in 1893, building his workshop for his glider. In the beginning, he flew also in the Rhinow Mountains, later switching to flying at Gollenberg.

References

[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12063000 Landkreis Havelland Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters]. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
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]
[https://www.wahlergebnisse.brandenburg.de/wahlen/KO2014/gemver/ergebgemver.asp?sel1=4350&sel2=2075&gebiet=63809260 Ergebnis der Kommunalwahl am 25. Mai 2014]

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