Kotzen

Kotzen is a municipality in the Havelland district, in Brandenburg, Germany.

Kotzen
Location of Kotzen within Havelland district
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Coordinates: 52°37′59″N 12°31′00″E
Country	Germany
State	Brandenburg
District	Havelland
Municipal assoc.	Nennhausen
Subdivisions	4 Ortsteile
Government
• Mayor	Franziska Blask
Area
• Total	42.73 km^2 (16.50 sq mi)
Elevation	27 m (89 ft)
Population  (2018-12-31)[1]
• Total	589
• Density	14/km^2 (36/sq mi)
Time zone	CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes	14715
Dialling codes	033874
Vehicle registration	HVL
Website	www.amt-nennhausen.de

Demography

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)

Kotzen: Population development
within the current boundaries (2013)[2]

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1875 965 —     1890 951 −0.10% 1910 924 −0.14% 1925 1,002 +0.54% 1933 878 −1.64% 1939 814 −1.25% 1946 1,352 +7.52% 1950 1,368 +0.29% 1964 953 −2.55% 1971 950 −0.05% 1981 763 −2.17% 1985 798 +1.13% 1989 733 −2.10% 1990 724 −1.23% 1991 697 −3.73% 1992 702 +0.72% 1993 667 −4.99% 1994 659 −1.20% 1995 650 −1.37% 1996 653 +0.46%

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1997 653 +0.00% 1998 659 +0.92% 1999 664 +0.76% 2000 640 −3.61% 2001 642 +0.31% 2002 659 +2.65% 2003 650 −1.37% 2004 644 −0.92% 2005 651 +1.09% 2006 643 −1.23% 2007 629 −2.18% 2008 614 −2.38% 2009 631 +2.77% 2010 590 −6.50% 2011 588 −0.34% 2012 582 −1.02% 2013 577 −0.86% 2014 571 −1.04% 2015 585 +2.45% 2016 600 +2.56%

Translation

Since one English translation of the German verb "kotzen" is "to vomit" therefore the town was jokingly (?) incorrectly referred to in Ripley's Believe-It-or-Not under the title "Barfburg". More prosaically the name probably comes from the Slavonic-German noun "Kotzen" which means market place, as per the Theater an der Kotzen, Divadlo v Kotcích in Prague.

Personalities

Explorer Karl Klaus von der Decken was born in Kotzen in 1833.

References

1. "Bevölkerung im Land Brandenburg nach amtsfreien Gemeinden, Ämtern und Gemeinden 31. Dezember 2018". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). July 2019.
2. Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

External links

The dictionary definition of kotzen at Wiktionary