Plattenburg

{{Infobox German location

|image_coa = DE-BB 12-0-70-302 Plattenburg COA.svg

|image_photo = Prignitz 07-13 img11 Plattenburg Burg.jpg

|image_caption = Plattenburg Castle

|coordinates = {{coord|52|58|00|N|12|01|59|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|image_plan = Plattenburg in PR.png

|state = Brandenburg

|district = Prignitz

|elevation = 32

|area = 200.76

|postal_code = 19336

|area_code = 038796

|licence = PR

|Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 70 302

|website = [http://www.plattenburg.de/ www.plattenburg.de]

|mayor = Anja Kramer[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/bm-wahlen/ergebnisse/~12070000 Landkreis Prignitz Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters], accessed 2 July 2021.

|leader_term = 2020–28

}}

Plattenburg is a municipality in the Prignitz district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is named after the water castle of Plattenburg which is located in the district.

Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Plattenburg.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 Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)

File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Plattenburg.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)

{{historical populations

|align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr

|title = Plattenburg: Population development
within the current boundaries (2020)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]

| 1875 | 6113

| 1890 | 5589

| 1910 | 5592

| 1925 | 5852

| 1939 | 5384

| 1950 | 8827

| 1964 | 6571

| 1971 | 6351

| 1981 | 5141

| 1985 | 5265

| 1990 | 5146

| 1995 | 4693

| 2000 | 4177

| 2005 | 3977

| 2010 | 3712

| 2015 | 3413

| 2016 | 3412

| 2017 | 3325

| 2018 | 3297

| 2019 | 3274

| 2020 | 3270

}}

References

Category:Localities in Prignitz