Zeuthen

For other uses, see Zeuthen (disambiguation).

Zeuthen
Municipality
Town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Zeuthen within Dahme-Spreewald district
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Coordinates: 52°21′00″N 13°37′41″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Dahme-Spreewald
Government
• Mayor (2024–32)	Philipp Martens (Ind.)
Area
• Total	12.66 km2 (4.89 sq mi)
Elevation	34 m (112 ft)
Population  (2022-12-31)
• Total	11,491
• Density	910/km2 (2,400/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.

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

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

• 
  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 and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the Census in Germany in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2020-2030 (green line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line)

Zeuthen: Population development
within the current boundaries (2017)

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 372 —     1890 590 +3.12% 1910 1,553 +4.96% 1925 2,620 +3.55% 1933 5,249 +9.07% 1939 8,358 +8.06% 1946 8,730 +0.62% 1950 9,624 +2.47% 1964 9,078 −0.42% 1971 9,121 +0.07% 1981 8,610 −0.57% 1985 8,236 −1.10% 1989 7,979 −0.79% 1990 7,860 −1.49% 1991 7,738 −1.55%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1992 7,696 −0.54% 1993 7,652 −0.57% 1994 7,794 +1.86% 1995 7,923 +1.66% 1996 8,056 +1.68% 1997 8,171 +1.43% 1998 8,665 +6.05% 1999 9,005 +3.92% 2000 9,375 +4.11% 2001 9,646 +2.89% 2002 9,831 +1.92% 2003 9,959 +1.30% 2004 10,094 +1.36% 2005 10,219 +1.24% 2006 10,377 +1.55%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 2007 10,344 −0.32% 2008 10,272 −0.70% 2009 10,290 +0.18% 2010 10,400 +1.07% 2011 10,574 +1.67% 2012 10,693 +1.13% 2013 10,811 +1.10% 2014 10,993 +1.68% 2015 11,106 +1.03% 2016 11,270 +1.48% 2017 11,297 +0.24% 2018 11,381 +0.74% 2019 11,427 +0.40% 2020 11,355 −0.63%

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Gemeindevertretung) 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

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.

Past Mayors

• 1990–1994 Karl-Ludwig Böttcher (SPD)
• 1994–2010 Klaus-Dieter Kubick (No party affiliation)
• 2010–2018 Beate Burgschweiger (SPD)
• 2018–2024 Sven Herzberger (No party affiliation)
• since 2024 Philipp Martens (No party affiliation)

International relations

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

Zeuthen is twinned with:

• Małomice, Poland
• Interlaken, Switzerland
• Düren, Germany