Kotzen

Kotzen
Kotzen

Coordinates: 52°37′59″N 12°31′00″E / 52.63306°N 12.51667°E / 52.63306; 12.51667Coordinates: 52°37′59″N 12°31′00″E / 52.63306°N 12.51667°E / 52.63306; 12.51667
Country Germany
State Brandenburg
District Havelland
Municipal assoc. Nennhausen
Government
 • Mayor Marlies Ossenbühl
Area
 • Total 42.73 km2 (16.50 sq mi)
Population (2015-12-31)[1]
 • Total 585
 • Density 14/km2 (35/sq mi)
Time zone CET/CEST (UTC+1/+2)
Postal codes 14715
Dialling codes 033874
Vehicle registration HVL
Website www.amt-nennhausen.de

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

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[2]
Year Popul.
1875 965
1890 951
1925 1002
1933 878
1939 814
1946 1352
1950 1368
1964 953
1971 950
1981 763
Year Popul.
1985 798
1989 733
1990 724
1991 697
1992 702
1993 667
1994 659
1995 650
1996 653
1997 653
Year Popul.
1998 659
1999 664
2000 640
2001 642
2002 659
2003 650
2004 644
2005 651
2006 643
2007 629
Year Popul.
2008 614
2009 631
2010 590
2011 588
2012 582

Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.[3]

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 2015 (Fortgeschriebene amtliche Einwohnerzahlen auf Grundlage des Zensus 2011)". Amt für Statistik Berlin-Brandenburg (in German). 2016.
  2. ↑ Boundaries as of 2013
  3. ↑ Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons

The dictionary definition of kotzen at Wiktionary


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