Tettau, Brandenburg

Tettau
Municipality
Coat of arms
Location of Tettau within Oberspreewald-Lausitz district
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Coordinates: 51°26′N13°44′E / 51.433°N 13.733°E / 51.433; 13.733
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oberspreewald-Lausitz
Municipal assoc.	Ortrand
Government
•  Mayor (2024–29)	Joachim Nitzsche [1]
Area
• Total	8.80 km2 (3.40 sq mi)
Elevation	94 m (308 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31) [2]
• Total	758
• Density	86/km2 (220/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	01945
Dialling codes	03574
Vehicle registration	OSL
Website	www.tettau-osl.de

Tettau is a municipality in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district, in Upper Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.

History

From 1815 to 1825, Tettau was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg, from 1825 to 1919 of the Province of Silesia, from 1919 to 1938 of the Province of Lower Silesia, again from 1938 to 1941 of the Province of Silesia and again from 1941 to 1945 of the Province of Lower Silesia. From 1945 to 1952 it was part of Saxony and from 1952 to 1990 of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.

Demography

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)

Tettau: Population development
within the current boundaries (2013) ^[3]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 300 —     1890 340 +0.84% 1910 400 +0.82% 1925 436 +0.58% 1933 506 +1.88% 1939 589 +2.56% 1946 678 +2.03% 1950 765 +3.06% 1964 873 +0.95% 1971 980 +1.67% 1981 1,095 +1.12% 1985 1,062 −0.76% 1989 963 −2.42% 1990 948 −1.56% 1991 910 −4.01% 1992 902 −0.88% 1993 1,014 +12.42% 1994 996 −1.78% 1995 1,001 +0.50% 1996 995 −0.60%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1997 973 −2.21% 1998 972 −0.10% 1999 946 −2.67% 2000 932 −1.48% 2001 917 −1.61% 2002 915 −0.22% 2003 902 −1.42% 2004 892 −1.11% 2005 881 −1.23% 2006 857 −2.72% 2007 841 −1.87% 2008 834 −0.83% 2009 827 −0.84% 2010 828 +0.12% 2011 826 −0.24% 2012 803 −2.78% 2013 795 −1.00% 2014 804 +1.13% 2015 789 −1.87% 2016 783 −0.76%

References

1. Landkreis Oberspreewald-Lausitz Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
2. "Bevölkerungsentwicklung und Bevölkerungsstandim Land Brandenburg Dezember 2022" (PDF). Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). June 2023.
3. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons