Tauche (

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: ''Tuchow'') is a

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on both sides of the river Spree in the

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district, in

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. The large municipality consists of 12 parts (

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: ''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,

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, 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).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. 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"

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Division of the municipality

Tauche consists of the following districts (German: ''Ortsteile''): Kossenblatt Castle

*Briescht (

''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)''

History

From 1815 to 1947, Tauche was part of the

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. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the Bezirk Frankfurt of

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Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Tauche.pdf, 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

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; Red Background: Time of communist

) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Tauche.pdf, Recent Population Development and Projections (Population Development before Census 2011 (blue line); Recent Population Development according to the

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in 2011 (blue bordered line); Official projections for 2005-2030 (yellow line); for 2017-2030 (scarlet line); for 2020-2030 (green line)

References

External links

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