Kotzen


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

Demography

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.