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{{Infobox German location
|name              = Kotzen
|image_coa            =
|coordinates       = {{coord|52|37|59|N|12|31|00|E|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|image_plan          = Kotzen in HVL.png
|state        = Brandenburg
|district         = Havelland
|Amt               = Nennhausen
|elevation              = 27
|area            = 42.73
|postal_code               = 14715
|area_code           = 033874
|licence               = HVL
|Gemeindeschlüssel = 12 0 63 165
|divisions         = 4 [[Ortsteil]]e
|website           = [http://www.amt-nennhausen.de www.amt-nennhausen.de]
|mayor             = Jan-Peer Michalek<ref>[https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12063000 Landkreis Havelland Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters]. Retrieved 3 July 2024.</ref>
|leader_term       = 2024&ndash;29
|party             =
}}
'''Kotzen''' is a [[Municipalities of Germany|municipality]] in the [[Havelland (district)|Havelland]] district, in [[Brandenburg]], [[Germany]].
==Demography==
[[File:Bevölkerungsentwicklung Kotzen.pdf|thumb|200px|left|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)]]
{{historical populations
|align=none | cols=2 | percentages=pagr
|title = Kotzen: Population development <br>within the current boundaries (2013)<ref>Detailed data sources are to be found in the Wikimedia Commons.[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Population_projection_Brandenburg Population Projection Brandenburg at Wikimedia Commons]</ref>
| 1875 | 965
| 1890 | 951
| 1910 | 924
| 1925 | 1002
| 1933 | 878
| 1939 | 814
| 1946 | 1352
| 1950 | 1368
| 1964 | 953
| 1971 | 950
| 1981 | 763
| 1985 | 798
| 1989 | 733
| 1990 | 724
| 1991 | 697
| 1992 | 702
| 1993 | 667
| 1994 | 659
| 1995 | 650
| 1996 | 653
| 1997 | 653
| 1998 | 659
| 1999 | 664
| 2000 | 640
| 2001 | 642
| 2002 | 659
| 2003 | 650
| 2004 | 644
| 2005 | 651
| 2006 | 643
| 2007 | 629
| 2008 | 614
| 2009 | 631
| 2010 | 590
| 2011 | 588
| 2012 | 582
| 2013 | 577
| 2014 | 571
| 2015 | 585
| 2016 | 600
}}
==Translation==
Since one [[English language|English]] translation of the German verb "{{lang|de|kotzen}}" is "to [[vomit]]", the town was jokingly{{OR inline|date=June 2022}} 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==
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==External links==
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