{{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<ref>[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/bm-wahlen/ergebnisse/~12070000 Landkreis Prignitz Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters], accessed 2 July 2021.</ref> |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 == <gallery widths="250" heights="200"> 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) </gallery>
{{historical populations |align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr |title = Plattenburg: Population development <br>within the current boundaries (2020)<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 | 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 }}
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Category:Localities in Prignitz {{Brandenburg-geo-stub}}