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{{Infobox District DE
|name=Oder-Spree
|state=Brandenburg
|image_flag=Hissflagge des Landkreises Oder-Spree.svg
|image_coa=Wappen Landkreis Oder-Spree.svg
|capital=[[Beeskow]]
|area=2242
|Kreisschlüssel=12067
| district_admin    = Frank Steffen
| admin_party       = SPD
|carsign=LOS, FW, BSK, EH
|url=[http://www.landkreis-oder-spree.de landkreis-oder-spree.de]
|map={{Germany district OSM map |parent_subdivision = Q1208}}
}}
'''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-Spreewald]], and the [[States of Germany|''Bundesland'']] [[Berlin]].

==Geography==
The district is named after the two major rivers in the district - the [[Spree (river)|Spree]] river forms a large bend within the district; the [[Oder]] river constitutes the eastern border.

==History==
The district was created in 1993 by merging the districts Eisenhüttenstadt, Beeskow and Fürstenwalde, and the district-free city Eisenhüttenstadt.

== Demography ==
<gallery widths="250" heights="200">
File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Landkreis Oder-Spree.pdf|Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state)
File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Landkreis Oder-Spree.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 2014-2030 (red line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)
</gallery>

{{historical populations
|align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr
|title = Landkreis Oder-Spree: Population development <br>within the current boundaries (2017)<ref>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]</ref>
| 1875 | 87934
| 1890 | 94469
| 1910 | 115555
| 1925 | 128292
| 1933 | 141635
| 1939 | 151802
| 1946 | 158490
| 1950 | 166492
| 1964 | 183110
| 1971 | 191619
| 1981 | 195164
| 1985 | 194810
| 1989 | 197478
| 1990 | 193753
| 1991 | 190103
| 1992 | 186878
| 1993 | 187827
| 1994 | 188986
| 1995 | 190839
| 1996 | 193006
| 1997 | 195032
| 1998 | 196655
| 1999 | 196784
| 2000 | 196453
| 2001 | 195670
| 2002 | 194169
| 2003 | 193062
| 2004 | 192001
| 2005 | 190728
| 2006 | 189185
| 2007 | 188035
| 2008 | 186542
| 2009 | 185062
| 2010 | 183859
| 2011 | 177764
| 2012 | 177047
| 2013 | 176850
| 2014 | 177823
| 2015 | 182397
| 2016 | 178849
| 2017 | 178347
| 2018 | 178658
| 2019 | 178803
}}

==Coat of arms==
[[File:Banner des Landkreises Oder-Spree.svg|thumb|right|150px|District banner of Oder-Spree]]
The coat of arms shows symbols for the three former districts which make up the district. In the top left quarter is the coat of arms of the Bishops of Lebus, who had their seat in Fürstenwalde. The second quarter shows the checkered bar of the [[Cistercian Order]] as the symbol of the Abbey of Neuzelle, who until 1817 owned most of the territory which later became the district Eisenhüttenstadt. The two quarters in the bottom symbolize the former district Beeskow. The three knives in the left are the symbol of the Lords of Strehla, the deer antler the symbol of the Lords of Biberstein, who in 1317 succeeded the Lords of Strehla as the Lords of Beeskow and Storkow.

==Towns and municipalities==
{{Imagemap Germany district LOS|Municipalities in LOS.png|300px{{!}}thumb{{!}}Clickable map of towns and municipalities in the district}}

The capital of the district is [[Beeskow]], but [[Fürstenwalde]] is the biggest town, with a population of 31,000 people.
{|
! width=33% align=left|Amt-free towns
! width=33% align=left|[[Amt (political division)|Ämter]]
! width=33% align=left|
|- valign=top
||
#[[Beeskow]]
#[[Eisenhüttenstadt]]
#[[Erkner]]
#[[Friedland, Brandenburg|Friedland]]
#[[Fürstenwalde]]
#[[Storkow, Brandenburg|Storkow]]
<br>
'''Amt-free municipalities'''
#[[Grünheide (Mark)|Grünheide]]
#[[Rietz-Neuendorf]]
#[[Schöneiche]]
#[[Tauche]]
#[[Woltersdorf, Brandenburg|Woltersdorf]]
||
'''1.''' [[Amt Brieskow-Finkenheerd|Brieskow-Finkenheerd]]
#[[Brieskow-Finkenheerd]]<sup>1</sup>
#[[Groß Lindow]]
#[[Vogelsang, Brandenburg|Vogelsang]]
#[[Wiesenau]]
#[[Ziltendorf]]

'''2.''' [[Amt Neuzelle|Neuzelle]]
#[[Lawitz]]
#[[Neißemünde]]
#[[Neuzelle]]<sup>1</sup>

'''3.''' [[Amt Odervorland|Odervorland]]
#[[Berkenbrück]]
#[[Briesen (Mark)|Briesen]]<sup>1</sup>
#[[Jacobsdorf]]
#[[Steinhöfel]]
||
'''4.''' [[Amt Scharmützelsee|Scharmützelsee]]
#[[Bad Saarow]]<sup>1</sup>
#[[Diensdorf-Radlow]]
#[[Langewahl]]
#[[Reichenwalde]]
#[[Wendisch Rietz]]

'''5.''' [[Amt Schlaubetal|Schlaubetal]]
#[[Grunow-Dammendorf]]
#[[Mixdorf]]
#[[Müllrose]]<sup>1, 2</sup>
#[[Ragow-Merz]]
#[[Schlaubetal]]
#[[Siehdichum]]

'''6.''' [[Amt Spreenhagen|Spreenhagen]]
#[[Gosen-Neu Zittau]]
#[[Rauen]]
#[[Spreenhagen]]<sup>1</sup>
|-
|colspan=3 align=center|<sup>1</sup>seat of the Amt; <sup>2</sup>town
|}

== See also ==

* [[Räuberberg (Görsdorf)]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Landkreis Oder-Spree|Oder-Spree}}
* [http://www.landkreis-oder-spree.de Official website] (German)
* [http://www.beeskow.de Website Beeskow] (German)
* [http://www.eisenhuettenstadt.de Website Eisenhüttenstadt] (German)
* [http://www.fuerstenwalde.de Website Fürstenwalde] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081217021919/http://www.fuerstenwalde.de/ |date=2008-12-17 }} (German)
* [http://www.schoeneiche-bei-berlin.de/sprachen/en/ Website Schöneiche] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050315222727/http://www.schoeneiche-bei-berlin.de/sprachen/en/ |date=2005-03-15 }} (English)

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