Teupitz

Teupitz
Coat of arms of Teupitz Coat of arms
Teupitz
Location of Teupitz within Dahme-Spreewald district 250px
Coordinates:
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Dahme-Spreewald
Municipal assoc.	Schenkenländchen
Government
• Mayor	Dirk Schierhorn (BNW)
Area
• Total	48.00 km2 (18.53 sq mi)
Population (2013-12-31)
• Total	1,785
• Density	37/km2 (96/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	15755
Dialling codes	033766
Vehicle registration	LDS
Website	www.teupitz.de

Teupitz (Lower Sorbian: Tupc) is a small town in the Dahme-Spreewald district, in Brandenburg, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Schenkenländchen municipal association (Amt).

Geography

The town is situated on the southern shore of Teupitzer See lake, 29 km (18 mi) northwest of the district capital Lübben, and about 45 km (28 mi) south of Berlin centre. The municipal area comprises the subdivisions of Egsdorf, Neuendorf and Tornow.

It has access to the Bundesautobahn 13, part of the European route E55, at the nearby Teupitz junction.

Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Teupitz.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)

Teupitz:
Population development within the current boundaries

Year Popul. 1875 1400 1890 1470 1925 3019 1933 3614 1939 3988 1946 2622 1950 2695 1964 2286 1971 2126 1981 1819

Year Popul. 1985 1725 1989 1649 1990 1652 1991 1629 1992 1658 1993 1689 1994 1744 1995 1733 1996 1711 1997 1672

Year Popul. 1998 1794 1999 1826 2000 1843 2001 1891 2002 1888 2003 1885 2004 1887 2005 1926 2006 1920 2007 1890

Year Popul. 2008 1870 2009 1844 2010 1831 2011 1802 2012 1786

Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.

History

Teupitz probably arose from a medieval Slavic settlement during the Ostsiedlung of German peasants and craftsmen. A Tupcz fortification was first mentioned in a 1307 deed, issued by Margrave Herman of Brandenburg at Spandau. The Ascanian rulers of Margraviate of Brandenburg had just acquired the estates in the former March of Lusatia from Margrave Dietrich IV of Wettin.

File:Schloss Teupitz Sammlung Duncker.jpg

Teupitz Castle, lithograph,
coll. Alexander Duncker (1813-1897)

The castle, located on a peninsula, from about 1330 served as a seat of the Schenk von Landsberg noble family. In 1411 one Albert Schenk von Landsberg, Lord of Teupitz and of Seyda in Saxe-Wittenberg, served as the Saxon representative at the (second) election of King Sigismund. The dynasty flourished for about four centuries until its extinction in 1721, leaving the local water castle as well as further residences in Königs Wusterhausen and Groß Leuthen. They also had the Brick Gothic Holy Ghost parish church erected and in 1437 on their own authority elevated Teupitz to the status of a town.

From 1717 the remnants of the castle were acquired by the Prussian state and served as the seat of the local Prussian Amt administration until 1812, when it was purchased as a private Rittergut manor. The town privileges were acknowledged in the 1808 Prussian reforms and a town hall was erected in 1830. After Theodor Fontane had published his Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg travelogue in 1880, Teupitz due to its picturesque setting became a popular destination for daytrippers from the Berlin agglomeration. In 1910 the Prussian Province of Brandenburg opened a sanatorium and in 1930 the former castle was again rebuilt as a hotel, which after World War II was used as a recreation centre by the East German Communist Party (SED).

Politics

File:Teupitz Rathaus.jpg

Town hall

Seats in the town's assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) as of 2008 elections:

• Free Voters: 7
• Christian Democratic Union (CDU): 5

External links

• (German) History of Teupitz