Tauche

Tauche
Tauche
Location of Tauche within Oder-Spree district
Coordinates: 52°07′00″N 14°07′00″E / 52.11667°N 14.11667°ECoordinates: 52°07′00″N 14°07′00″E / 52.11667°N 14.11667°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oder-Spree
Government
• Mayor	Gerd Mai (Ind.)
Area
• Total	119.93 km^2 (46.31 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	3,875
• Density	32/km^2 (84/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	15848
Dialling codes	033675
Vehicle registration	LOS
Website	www.gemeinde-tauche.de

Tauche (Lower Sorbian Tuchow) is a municipality on both sides of the river Spree in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany. The large municipality consists of 12 parts (German: Ortsteile) respectively villages with other local parts/settlements. The seat of the municipal administration is located in the village that is called Tauche as well.

In 1813, an explorer of Australia and naturalist, Ludwig Leichhardt, was born in Sabordt. That made, in 1998, the federal state of Brandenburg give the village of Trebatsch the additional name Leichhardt Gemeinde (Leichhardt Municipality).^[2]

Author Günter de Bruyn has been living since 1969 in Görsdorf. In Koseenblatt is a castle, Schloss Kossenblatt, which is said to have been the favourite palace of the 'Soldier King' Frederick William I of Prussia.

Division of the municipality

Tauche consists of the following districts (German: Ortsteile):

Castle of Kossenblatt between 1857 and 1883

• Briescht (Lower Sorbian Brěšc), including the local place Schwarzer Kater
• Falkenberg (Sokolnica)
• Giesensdorf (Gižojce), including the village Wulfersdorf
• Görsdorf (Górice), including the village Premsdorf (Pśemysłojce) and the local place Blabber
• Kossenblatt (Kósomłot)
• Lindenberg
• Mittweide
• Ranzig (Rańšyk)
• Stremmen (Tšumjeń)
• Tauche (Tuchow)
• Trebatsch (Žrobolce), including the villages Rocher (Rochow), Sabrodt (Zabrod) and Sawall (Zawal)
• Werder/Spree (Łucka)

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)
• 
  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

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

Year Population 1875 4 235 1890 4 113 1910 4 211 1925 4 391 1933 4 008 1939 4 576 1946 5 975 1950 5 864 1964 4 801 1971 4 930

Year Population 1981 4 506 1985 4 517 1989 4 455 1990 4 400 1991 4 293 1992 4 333 1993 4 340 1994 4 384 1995 4 378 1996 4 338

Year Population 1997 4 296 1998 4 341 1999 4 294 2000 4 295 2001 4 218 2002 4 134 2003 4 138 2004 4 070 2005 4 043 2006 3 985

Year Population 2007 3 957 2008 3 945 2009 3 972 2010 3 881 2011 3 936 2012 3 905 2013 3 877

External links

Media related to Tauche at Wikimedia Commons

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2015 (Fortgeschriebene amtliche Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2016.
2. Awarding the additional name "Leichhardt-Gemeinde": Bekanntmachung des Ministeriums des Innern vom 27. März 1998. Amtsblatt für Brandenburg Gemeinsames Ministerialblatt für das Land Brandenburg, 9. Jahrgang, Nummer 15, 22. April 1998, S.438.
3. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons