Dahme, Brandenburg

Dahme
Town hall and post office
Coat of arms
Dahme
Location of Dahme within Teltow-Fläming district
Coordinates: 51°52′00″N 13°25′59″E / 51.86667°N 13.43306°ECoordinates: 51°52′00″N 13°25′59″E / 51.86667°N 13.43306°E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Teltow-Fläming
Municipal assoc.	Dahme/Mark
Government
• Mayor	Thomas Willweber (FW)
Area
• Total	162.02 km^2 (62.56 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
• Total	5,073
• Density	31/km^2 (81/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	15936
Dialling codes	035451
Vehicle registration	TF
Website	www.dahme.de

Dahme (also: Dahme/Mark) is a town in the Teltow-Fläming district of Brandenburg, Germany. It is situated on the Dahme River, 30 km southeast of Luckenwalde, and 38 km west of Lübbenau.

Demography

• 
  Development of Population since 1875 within the Current Boundaries (Blue Line: Population; Dotted Line: Comparison to Population Development of Brandenburg state)
• 
  Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Dahme/Mark:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)^[2]

Year Population 1875 8 674 1890 8 355 1910 8 976 1925 8 303 1933 8 009 1939 7 943 1946 10 840 1950 10 676 1964 8 756 1971 8 608

Year Population 1981 7 610 1985 7 427 1989 7 271 1990 7 179 1991 7 036 1992 6 839 1993 6 745 1994 6 698 1995 6 680 1996 6 506

Year Population 1997 6 496 1998 6 399 1999 6 279 2000 6 219 2001 6 165 2002 6 147 2003 6 035 2004 5 910 2005 5 790 2006 5 678

Year Population 2007 5 583 2008 5 525 2009 5 412 2010 5 376 2011 5 288 2012 5 253 2013 5 194

Notable People

Hermann Hellriegel

• Karsten Greve (born 1946), an internationally renowned art dealer.
• Johannes Groenland (1824-1891), botanist and microscopist who worked for Vilmorin and was a professor of natural science in Dahme.
• Hermann Hellriegel (1831-1895), first head of the agricultural test station in Dahme from 1857 to 1873
• Max Jacob (1849-1921), architect
• Roswitha Krause (born 1949), swimmer and handball player
• Günther Marks (1897-1978), church musician and composer; lecturer for organ play and church music at the evangelical seminar in Dahme
• Otto Unverdorben (1806-1873), discoverer of the Aniline
• Birgit Vanderbeke (born 1956), writer

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2015 (Fortgeschriebene amtliche Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2016.
2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons