What is "tauche"

Tauche ( Lower Sorbian Tuchow) is a municipality on both sides of the river Spree in the Oder-Spree district, in Brandenburg, Germany. The large municipality consists of 12 parts (German: Ortsteile) respectively villages with other local parts/settlements. The seat of the municipal administration is located in the village that is called Tauche as well.

In 1813, an explorer of Australia and naturalist, Ludwig Leichhardt, was born in Sabordt. That made, in 1998, the federal state of Brandenburg give the village of Trebatsch the additional name Leichhardt Gemeinde (Leichhardt Municipality).

Author Günter de Bruyn has been living since 1969 in Görsdorf. In Koseenblatt is a castle, Schloss Kossenblatt, which is said to have been the favourite palace of the 'Soldier King' Frederick William I of Prussia.