Dahme (also: Dahme/Mark) is a town in the

Teltow-Fläming Teltow-Fläming () is a ''Kreis'' (district) in the southwestern part of Brandenburg, Germany. Neighboring districts are (from the east clockwise) Dahme-Spreewald, Elbe-Elster, the districts Wittenberg in Saxony-Anhalt, the district Potsdam-Mitte ...

district of

Brandenburg Brandenburg (; nds, Brannenborg; dsb, Bramborska ) is a state in the northeast of Germany bordering the states of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Saxony, as well as the country of Poland. With an area of 29,480 sq ...

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. It is situated on the Dahme River, 30 km southeast of

Luckenwalde Luckenwalde (; Upper and dsb, Łukowc) is the capital of the Teltow-Fläming district in the German state of Brandenburg. It is situated on the Nuthe river north of the Fläming Heath, at the eastern rim of the Nuthe-Nieplitz Nature Park, about ...

, and 38 km west of

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History

From 1815 to 1947, Dahme was part of the

Prussian Prussia, , Old Prussian: ''Prūsa'' or ''Prūsija'' was a German state on the southeast coast of the Baltic Sea. It formed the German Empire under Prussian rule when it united the German states in 1871. It was ''de facto'' dissolved by an e ...

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. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the

Bezirk Cottbus Cottbus was a district () of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). The administrative seat and main town was Cottbus. History The district was established, along with the other 13, on 25 July 1952, ''de facto'' replacing the East German ...

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Demography

File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Stadt Dahme-Mark.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 Stadt Dahme-Mark.pdf, Recent Population Development (Blue Line) and Forecasts

Notable people

* 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

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* Birgit Vanderbeke (1956–2021), writer

References

Localities in Teltow-Fläming {{Brandenburg-geo-stub