Tauche

Tauche
Municipality
Location of Tauche within Oder-Spree district
Tauche Tauche
Coordinates: 52°07′00″N 14°07′00″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Oder-Spree
Subdivisions	12 districts
Government
• Mayor	Gerd Mai (Ind.)
Area
• Total	119.93 km2 (46.31 sq mi)
Elevation	53 m (174 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	3,783
• Density	32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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) or villages with other local parts/settlements, respectively. The seat of the municipal administration is located in the village of the same name.

In 1813, explorer of Australia and naturalist, Ludwig Leichhardt, was born in the hamlet of Sabrodt near Trebatsch. That made, in 1998, the federal state of Brandenburg award the village of Trebatsch the additional name "Leichhardt-Gemeinde" (Leichhardt Municipality).

Author Günter de Bruyn has been living since 1969 in Görsdorf. In Kossenblatt there 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 in Brandenburg state; Grey Background: Time of Nazi Germany; Red Background: Time of communist East Germany)
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  Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Projection by the Brandenburg state for 2005-2030 (yellow line); Projection by the Brandenburg state for 2014-2030 (red line)

Tauche: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 4,235 —     1890 4,113 −0.19% 1910 4,211 +0.12% 1925 4,391 +0.28% 1933 4,008 −1.13% 1939 4,576 +2.23% 1946 5,975 +3.88% 1950 5,864 −0.47% 1964 4,801 −1.42% 1971 4,930 +0.38% 1981 4,506 −0.90% 1985 4,517 +0.06% 1989 4,455 −0.34% 1990 4,400 −1.23%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1991 4,293 −2.43% 1992 4,333 +0.93% 1993 4,340 +0.16% 1994 4,384 +1.01% 1995 4,378 −0.14% 1996 4,338 −0.91% 1997 4,296 −0.97% 1998 4,341 +1.05% 1999 4,294 −1.08% 2000 4,295 +0.02% 2001 4,218 −1.79% 2002 4,134 −1.99% 2003 4,138 +0.10% 2004 4,070 −1.64%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2005 4,043 −0.66% 2006 3,985 −1.43% 2007 3,957 −0.70% 2008 3,945 −0.30% 2009 3,972 +0.68% 2010 3,881 −2.29% 2011 3,936 +1.42% 2012 3,905 −0.79% 2013 3,877 −0.72% 2014 3,865 −0.31% 2015 3,875 +0.26% 2016 3,872 −0.08% 2017 3,816 −1.45%

External links

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