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)
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", 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.