Kotzen Explained

Kotzen
Coordinates:52.6331°N 12.5167°W
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 Ortsteile
Website:www.amt-nennhausen.de
Mayor:Jan-Peer Michalek[1]
Leader Term:2024 - 29

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

Translation

Since one English translation of the German verb "German: kotzen" is "to vomit", 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.

Notes and References

  1. https://wahlen.brandenburg.de/wahlen/de/kommunalwahlen/ergebnisse/buergermeisterwahlen/ergebnisse/~12063000 Landkreis Havelland Wahl der Bürgermeisterin / des Bürgermeisters