Teltow

This article is about the town in Brandenburg. For other uses, see Teltow (disambiguation).

Teltow
Town
Market place and St Andrew's
Flag Coat of arms
Location of Teltow within Potsdam-Mittelmark district
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Potsdam-Mittelmark
Subdivisions	2 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Thomas Schmidt (SPD)
Area
• Total	21.54 km2 (8.32 sq mi)
Elevation	39 m (128 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	27,697
• Density	1,300/km2 (3,300/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal codes	14513
Dialling codes	03328
Vehicle registration	PM
Website	www.teltow.de

Teltow ['tɛltoː] is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Geography

Teltow is part of the agglomeration of Berlin. The distance to the Berlin city centre is 17 km (11 mi), while the distance to Potsdam is 15 km (9.3 mi).

The Teltow Canal links the River Havel near the city of Potsdam with the River Dahme near Köpenick in Berlin's eastern suburbs. It passes immediately to the north of Teltow, forming the border between Brandenburg and Berlin.

The central Teltow Stadt railway station is part of the Berlin S-Bahn line Template:SBB lines. Teltow railway station is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the south-east and is served by RegionalExpress lines 3, 4 and 5.

Protected specialty

Teltow turnips

Teltow Turnips are a well known regional speciality, however yield, homogeneity and handling properties are sub-optimal. Since year 1993 they are registered as a trade mark.

History

The settlement was first mentioned in a 1265 deed issued by Margrave Otto III of Brandenburg. It received its name from the eponymous plateau, a moraine of the last glacial period. Teltow was formerly known for the Teltower Rübchen (Brassica rapa ssp. rapa f. teltowiensis), a special type of turnip quite popular in the 18th and 19th century. The main sight of the town is the Protestant St Andrew's fieldstone church of the 12th century rebuilt in 1812 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It was depicted by Lyonel Feininger in his 1918 painting Teltow II.

Teltow shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated from it by the Berlin Wall.

The present municipality was established in 1994 by the merger of Teltow and the village of Ruhlsdorf whicj lies just to the southwest. It has seen a major increase of population since the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In 2005, German painter Markus Lüpertz installed his studio of sculpture at Teltow.

Demography

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  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)
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  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Teltow:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)

Year Population 1875 2 771 1890 3 364 1910 4 943 1925 6 281 1933 9 343 1939 13 309 1946 12 087 1950 12 864 1964 13 974 1971 16 179

Year Population 1981 15 809 1985 15 355 1989 15 966 1990 15 661 1991 15 666 1992 15 584 1993 15 478 1994 15 567 1995 15 576 1996 15 488

Year Population 1997 16 021 1998 16 593 1999 17 343 2000 17 938 2001 18 445 2002 18 841 2003 19 188 2004 19 541 2005 19 972 2006 20 315

Year Population 2007 20 658 2008 21 226 2009 21 904 2010 22 538 2011 22 716 2012 23 449 2013 24 031

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) as of 2008 elections:

• Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD): 9
• The Left: 6
• Bürgerinitiative Teltow e. V. (BIT): 4
• Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 3
• Free Democratic Party (FDP): 3
• Alliance '90/The Greens: 2
• Independent: 1

International relations

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

Teltow is twinned with:

• Ahlen, Germany, since 1991
• Gonfreville-l'Orcher, France, since 2000
• Żagań, Poland, since 2006

Transport

Since February 2005 Teltow has access to the Berlin S-Bahn network at Teltow Stadt station, which is at the end of the Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd–Teltow Stadt railway.

Via sections of the Expressway Potsdam-Schönefeld it is linked to the Potsdam city center as well as the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport.

Personalities

Honorary citizens

The honorary citizenship of the town of Teltow was awarded to the following persons:

• 1906: Ernst von Stubenrauch, (1853-1909), he was the district councilor of the district of Teltow from 1885-1908, and he has done much to improve the regional infrastructure.
• 1934: Wilhelm Kube (1887-1943), high official in Brandenburg-Berlin
• 1936: Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945), politician in the time of National Socialism, withdrawn in 2014 by resolution of the town council.
• 1956: Erich Correns (1896-1981), chemist, then director of the Institute for Fiber Research of the German Academy of Sciences in Teltow
• 1968: Albert Wiebach (1893-1974), first mayor of Teltow after the end of the second World war
• 1975: Konstantin Fyodorovich Chika, one of the first Red Army soldiers to reach Teltow at the end of the Second World War. In a shell attack, he was seriously injured in Teltow and lost an eye.

In January 2014, the honorary citizenship for Joseph Goebbels and Wilhelm Kube was withdrawn.

Sons and daughters of the city

• Erich Koschny (1846-1875), publisher and bookseller,
• Günther Feustel (1924-2011), author of children and youth literature
• Wolfgang Hegemeister (born 1924), former leader and co-founder of the German Forest Youth,
• Harry Zedler (born 1946), football player in the GDR, played three years for the 1. FC Union Berlin in the GDR-Oberliga

Other personalities

• Erich Correns (1896-1981), chemist and President of the National Council of the National Front of the GDR.
• Peter Brock (1916-1982), child and youth book author of the GDR, lived from 1960 until his death 1982 in the local part Seehof.
• Markus Lüpertz (born 1941), painter and sculptor, has in Teltow his studio

External links

Media related to Teltow at Wikimedia Commons