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

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%

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.

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

The dictionary definition of kotzen at Wiktionary