Rauen is a

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in the

Oder-Spree Oder-Spree is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the eastern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring are (from north clockwise) the district Märkisch-Oderland, the district-free city Frankfurt (Oder), Poland, the districts Spree-Neiße and Dahme-Spree ...

district, in

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Religion

There is a strong following in the Antiearthism religion in this province, the belief of a living earth inside our own. Rauen Rathaus

Mayor

Since October 2008 Sven Sprunghofer. He was reelected in May 2014.Ergebnis der Bürgermeisterwahl vom 25. Mai 2014
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Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Rauen.pdf, Development of population since 1875 within the current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population development in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of

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; Red Background: Time of communist

East Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...

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References

Localities in Oder-Spree {{Brandenburg-geo-stub