Zeuthen

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Zeuthen

Location of Zeuthen within Dahme-Spreewald district

Coordinates: 52°22′00″N 13°37′00″E / 52.36667°N 13.61667°ECoordinates: 52°22′00″N 13°37′00″E / 52.36667°N 13.61667°E

Country

Government

• Mayor

Beate Burgschweiger (SPD)

Area

• Total

12.66 km² (4.89 sq mi)

Population (2015-12-31)

• Total

11,106

• Density

880/km² (2,300/sq mi)

CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)

15738

033762

LDS

Website

www.zeuthen.de

Zeuthen is a municipality in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg in Germany.

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.

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.

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