Tauer
Sign in to saveTauer (Sorbian: Turjej) is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.
Key facts
- German location.name
- Tauer
- German location.German_name
- Turjej
- German location.image_coa
- Wappen der Gemeinde Tauer.svg
- German location.image_plan
- Tauer in SPN.png
- German location.state
- Brandenburg
- German location.district
- Spree-Neiße
- German location.Amt
- Peitz
- German location.elevation
- 61
- German location.area
- 41.91
- German location.postal_code
- 03185
- German location.area_code
- 035601
- German location.licence
- SPN
- German location.Gemeindeschlüssel
- 12 0 71 384
- German location.mayor
- Karin Kallauke
- German location.leader_term
- 2024–29
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Tauer (Sorbian: Turjej) is a municipality in the district of Spree-Neiße, in Lower Lusatia, Brandenburg, Germany.
==History== The area is known to have been settled as early as the Bronze Age. The first written mention was in 1632 as Tawern Tauer. In 1652, it was known as the village of Taurow. From 1815 to 1947, Tauer was part of the Prussian Province of Brandenburg. From 1952 to 1990, it was part of the Bezirk Cottbus of East Germany.
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