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Photo: A.Savin, FAL, via Wikimedia Commons · FAL Unemployment rate7.4% Median gross pay a month€3,887
Cottbus
A Brandenburg city near the Polish border at the edge of the Lausitz coalfield, long dependent on lignite mining and the power plants it fed, an industry now winding down under Germany's coal phase-out. The city is trying to reinvent itself around a technical university and renewable-energy research as the mines that shaped it close for good.
Housing
- Asking price, apartments
- €2,563 per m²as of September 2026 · sourced · immoportal.com
- Asking rent, apartments
- €7.65 per m² a monthimmoportal.com
- Hausgeld
- €3.40 per m² a month
- Prices, last 12 months
- -1.2%
- A 70 m² flat
To buy €179,410 Closing costs on top + €21,206 To rent, cold €536 a month - Paid price, resold flats
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- Paid price, new flats
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Where these numbers come from
- September 2026immoportal.com
- July 2024BBSR, Laufende Raumbeobachtung (INKAR)Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- May 2022Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Zensus 2022Datenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- January 2024Statistische Ämter des Bundes und der Länder, Regionaldatenbank DeutschlandDatenlizenz Deutschland Namensnennung 2.0
- December 2025Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Entgeltstatistik
- December 2025Wikidata
- January 2026Wikipedia, Gesetzliche Feiertage
- September 2026Bundesagentur für Arbeit, Arbeitslosenquoten