{{Other uses}} {{Infobox German location |image_coa = DEU Zeuthen COA.svg |image_photo = Zeuthen Rathaus.jpg |image_caption = Town hall |coordinates = {{coord|52|21|00|N|13|37|41|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |image_plan = Zeuthen in LDS.png |state = Brandenburg |district = Dahme-Spreewald |elevation = 34 |area = 12.66 |postal_code = 15738 |area_code = 033762 |licence = LDS |Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 61 572 |website = [https://www.zeuthen.de/ www.zeuthen.de] |mayor = Philipp Martens<ref>[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12061000 Landkreis Dahme-Spreewald Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters]. Retrieved 25 June 2024.</ref> |leader_term = 2024–32 |party = Independent }} '''Zeuthen''' is a [[Municipalities of Germany|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)|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 railway|Berlin-Görlitz]] line, it is served by the [[Berlin S-Bahn]].
==History== [[File:Zeuthen Martin Luther Kirche.jpg|thumb|left|Martin Luther Church]]
Probably of [[Polabian Slavs|Slavic]] origin like many [[Margraviate of Brandenburg|Brandenburg]] settlements, Zeuthen with neighbouring Miersdorf and Gersdorf was first mentioned in the 1375 ''Landbuch'' (domesday book) written at the behest of the [[House of Luxembourg|Luxembourg]] emperor [[Charles IV, Holy Roman 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 separation|isotope separator]] at Zeuthen, which from 1962 formed the nucleus of the [[East Germany|East German]] Institute for [[Particle physics|High Energy Physics]] (IfH), part of the [[German Academy of Sciences at Berlin|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 == <gallery widths="250" heights="200"> File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Zeuthen.pdf|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) File:Bevölkerungsprognosen Zeuthen.pdf|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) </gallery>
{{historical populations |align=none | cols=3 | percentages=pagr |title = Zeuthen: Population development <br>within the current boundaries (2017)<ref>Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Population_projection_Brandenburg Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons]</ref> | 1875 | 372 | 1890 | 590 | 1910 | 1553 | 1925 | 2620 | 1933 | 5249 | 1939 | 8358 | 1946 | 8730 | 1950 | 9624 | 1964 | 9078 | 1971 | 9121 | 1981 | 8610 | 1985 | 8236 | 1989 | 7979 | 1990 | 7860 | 1991 | 7738 | 1992 | 7696 | 1993 | 7652 | 1994 | 7794 | 1995 | 7923 | 1996 | 8056 | 1997 | 8171 | 1998 | 8665 | 1999 | 9005 | 2000 | 9375 | 2001 | 9646 | 2002 | 9831 | 2003 | 9959 | 2004 | 10094 | 2005 | 10219 | 2006 | 10377 | 2007 | 10344 | 2008 | 10272 | 2009 | 10290 | 2010 | 10400 | 2011 | 10574 | 2012 | 10693 | 2013 | 10811 | 2014 | 10993 | 2015 | 11106 | 2016 | 11270 | 2017 | 11297 | 2018 | 11381 | 2019 | 11427 | 2020 | 11355 }}
==Politics== ===Seats in the municipal assembly=== ''As of the 2008 elections.'' *''Bürger für Zeuthen'' ([[Free Voters]]): 6 *[[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] (SPD): 6 *[[The Left (Germany)|The Left]]: 4 *[[Christian Democratic Union (Germany)|Christian Democratic Union]] (CDU): 4 *[[Alliance '90/The Greens]]: 1 *[[Free Democratic Party (Germany)|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.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.wahlen.brandenburg.de/bmwahlen/1206157200/h |title=Ergebnis der Bürgermeisterwahl am 24. September 2017 |access-date=2017-10-17 |archive-date=2017-10-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013172448/http://www.wahlen.brandenburg.de/bmwahlen/1206157200/h |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|List of twin towns and sister cities in Germany}} Zeuthen is [[town twinning|twinned]] with: *{{flagicon|POL}} [[Małomice]], [[Poland]] *{{flagicon|CHE}} [[Interlaken]], [[Switzerland]] *{{flagicon|GER}} [[Düren]], [[Germany]]
==References== {{Reflist}}
{{commons category|Zeuthen}} {{Cities and towns in Dahme-Spreewald (district)}}
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