Zeuthen

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Zeuthen
Municipality
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Location of Zeuthen within Dahme-Spreewald district
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Location of Zeuthen
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Zeuthen
Coordinates: 52°21′00″N13°37′41″E / 52.35000°N 13.62806°E / 52.35000; 13.62806
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Dahme-Spreewald
Government
 •  Mayor (2024–32) Philipp Martens [1] (Ind.)
Area
 • Total
12.66 km2 (4.89 sq mi)
Elevation
34 m (112 ft)
Population
 (2023-12-31) [2]
 • Total
11,578
 • Density914.5/km2 (2,369/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes
15738
Dialling codes 033762
Vehicle registration LDS
Website www.zeuthen.de

Zeuthen is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.

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Geography

It is located near the southeastern Berlin city limits on the western shore of the Dahme River and the Zeuthener See. It borders Eichwalde in the north, Schulzendorf and Schönefeld in the west, Wildau and Königs Wusterhausen in the south, as well as the Berlin borough of Treptow-Köpenick (Schmöckwitz locality) on the eastern shore of Zeuthener See, where the municipal area also includes the Miersdorfer Werder exclave. The four municipalities of Zeuthen, Eichwalde, Wildau and Schulzendorf form a coherently built-up suburban area.

Zeuthen railway station is a stop on the Berlin-Görlitz line, it is served by the Berlin S-Bahn.

History

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Martin Luther Church

Probably of Slavic origin like many Brandenburg settlements, Zeuthen with neighbouring Miersdorf and Gersdorf was first mentioned in the 1375 Landbuch (domesday book) written at the behest of the Luxembourg emperor Charles IV, who had acquired the margraviate from the Bavarian House of Wittelsbach two years before.

Devastated in the Thirty Years' War and with a population of only 122 still in 1860, the rapid development of the former village on the riverside to a coveted suburban residential area began with the building of the railway line to Görlitz shortly afterwards and the rise of Berlin as capital of the German Empire in 1871. Zeuthen station was inaugurated on 1 November 1897. Neighbouring Miersdorf was merged into the Zeuthen municipality in 1957.

In World War II, the German Reichspostministerium research department under Wilhelm Ohnesorge had begun to build up a cyclotron particle accelerator and an isotope separator at Zeuthen, which from 1962 formed the nucleus of the East German Institute for High Energy Physics (IfH), part of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. Following German reunification, the premises were merged as the second site of the DESY institute on 1 January 1992.

Demography

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly

As of the 2008 elections.

Mayor

On September 24, 2017 Sven Herzberger (no party affiliation) won the election for an eight-year term with 62.9% of the valid votes cast. [4]

Past Mayors

International relations

Zeuthen is twinned with:

References

  1. ↑ Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters. Retrieved 25 June 2024.
  2. ↑ "Alle politisch selbständigen Gemeinden mit ausgewählten Merkmalen am 31.12.2023" (in German). Federal Statistical Office of Germany. 28 October 2024. Retrieved 16 November 2024.
  3. ↑ Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons
  4. ↑ "Ergebnis der Bürgermeisterwahl am 24. September 2017". Archived from the original on 2017-10-13. Retrieved 2017-10-17.
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