Zeuthen

For other uses, see Zeuthen (disambiguation).

Zeuthen
Coat of arms of Zeuthen Coat of arms
Zeuthen
Location of Zeuthen within Dahme-Spreewald district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Dahme-Spreewald
Government
• Mayor	Beate Burgschweiger (SPD)
Area
• Total	12.66 km2 (4.89 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	10,811
• Density	850/km2 (2,200/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
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.

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

File:Zeuthen Martin Luther Kirche.jpg

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

• Bevölkerungsentwicklung Zeuthen.pdf

  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)

• Bevölkerungsprognosen Zeuthen.pdf

  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Zeuthen:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)

Year Population 1875 372 1890 590 1910 1 553 1925 2 620 1933 5 249 1939 8 358 1946 8 730 1950 9 624 1964 9 078 1971 9 121

Year Population 1981 8 610 1985 8 236 1989 7 979 1990 7 860 1991 7 738 1992 7 696 1993 7 652 1994 7 794 1995 7 923 1996 8 056

Year Population 1997 8 171 1998 8 665 1999 9 005 2000 9 375 2001 9 646 2002 9 831 2003 9 959 2004 10 094 2005 10 219 2006 10 377

Year Population 2007 10 344 2008 10 272 2009 10 290 2010 10 400 2011 10 574 2012 10 693 2013 10 811

Politics

File:Zeuthen Rathaus.jpg

Town hall

Seats in the municipal assembly (Rat der Geminde) as of 2008 elections:

• Bürger für Zeuthen (Free Voters): 6
• Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 6
• The Left: 4
• Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 4
• Alliance '90/The Greens: 1
• Free Democratic Party (FDP): 1

International relations

Main article: List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany

Zeuthen is twinned with:

• Małomice, Poland
• Interlaken, Switzerland