Teltow

This article is about the town in Brandenburg. For other uses, see Teltow (disambiguation).
Teltow

Market place and St Andrew's

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Teltow

Coordinates: 52°24′8″N 13°16′14″E / 52.40222°N 13.27056°E / 52.40222; 13.27056Coordinates: 52°24′8″N 13°16′14″E / 52.40222°N 13.27056°E / 52.40222; 13.27056
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Potsdam-Mittelmark
Government
  Mayor Thomas Schmidt (SPD)
Area
  Total 21.54 km2 (8.32 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
  Total 25,483
  Density 1,200/km2 (3,100/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 14513
Dialling codes 03328
Vehicle registration PM
Website www.teltow.de

Teltow ['tɛltoː] is a town in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Geography

Teltow is part of the agglomeration of Berlin. The distance to the Berlin city centre is 17 km (11 mi), while the distance to Potsdam is 15 km (9.3 mi).

The Teltow Canal links the River Havel near the city of Potsdam with the River Dahme near Köpenick in Berlin's eastern suburbs. It passes immediately to the north of Teltow, forming the border between Brandenburg and Berlin.

The central Teltow Stadt railway station is part of the Berlin S-Bahn line S25. Teltow railway station is 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) to the south-east and is served by RegionalExpress lines 3, 4 and 5.

Protected specialty

Teltow turnips

Teltow Turnips are a well known regional speciality, however yield, homogeneity and handling properties are sub-optimal. Since year 1993 they are registered as a trade mark.

History

The settlement was first mentioned in a 1265 deed issued by Margrave Otto III of Brandenburg. It received its name from the eponymous plateau, a moraine of the last glacial period. Teltow was formerly known for the Teltower Rübchen (Brassica rapa ssp. rapa f. teltowiensis), a special type of turnip quite popular in the 18th and 19th century. The main sight of the town is the Protestant St Andrew's fieldstone church of the 12th century rebuilt in 1812 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. It was depicted by Lyonel Feininger in his 1918 painting Teltow II.

Teltow shared its borders with the former West Berlin, and so during the period 1961-1990 it was separated from it by the Berlin Wall.

The present municipality was established in 1994 by the merger of Teltow and the village of Ruhlsdorf whicj lies just to the southwest. It has seen a major increase of population since the fall of the Berlin Wall and German reunification. In 2005, German painter Markus Lüpertz installed his studio of sculpture at Teltow.

Demography

Teltow:
Population development within the current boundaries (2013)
[2]
Year Population
1875 2 771
1890 3 364
1910 4 943
1925 6 281
1933 9 343
1939 13 309
1946 12 087
1950 12 864
1964 13 974
1971 16 179
Year Population
1981 15 809
1985 15 355
1989 15 966
1990 15 661
1991 15 666
1992 15 584
1993 15 478
1994 15 567
1995 15 576
1996 15 488
Year Population
1997 16 021
1998 16 593
1999 17 343
2000 17 938
2001 18 445
2002 18 841
2003 19 188
2004 19 541
2005 19 972
2006 20 315
Year Population
2007 20 658
2008 21 226
2009 21 904
2010 22 538
2011 22 716
2012 23 449
2013 24 031

Politics

Seats in the municipal assembly (Stadtverordnetenversammlung) as of 2008 elections:

International relations

Teltow is twinned with:

Transport

Since February 2005 Teltow has access to the Berlin S-Bahn network at Teltow Stadt station, which is at the end of the Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd–Teltow Stadt railway.

Via sections of the Expressway Potsdam-Schönefeld it is linked to the Potsdam city center as well as the Berlin-Schönefeld Airport.

Personalities

Honorary citizens

The honorary citizenship of the town of Teltow was awarded to the following persons:

In January 2014, the honorary citizenship for Joseph Goebbels and Wilhelm Kube was withdrawn.

Sons and daughters of the city

Other personalities

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References

Media related to Teltow at Wikimedia Commons

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