Puke (Havelland)

Basic data
State :	Brandenburg
County :	Havelland
Office :	Nennhausen
Height :	27 m above sea level NHN
Area :	42.87 km 2
Residents:	598 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	14 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	14715
Area code :	033874
License plate :	HVL, NAU, RN
Community key :	12 0 63 165
Community structure:	3 districts and a living space
Office administration address:	Fouqué-Platz 3 ; 14715 Nennhausen
Website :	www.amt-nennhausen.de
Mayoress :	Franziska Blask
Location of the municipality of Kotzen in the Havelland district

Kotzen is a municipality in the Havelland district in Brandenburg . It is administered by the Nennhausen office.

geography

Kotzen is about 14 km east of Rathenow . The community is located approx. 70 km west of Berlin . It is located on the B 188 (district Rhinsmühlen ) and on both sides of the Great Havelland main canal .

Community structure

The districts belong to the municipality of Kotzen

Throw up
Kriele
Landin

and the inhabited part of the municipality

Rhinsmühlen

history

The place name is of Slavic origin and means "place where hairy plants grow". In the Middle Ages, to the west of Landin, there was Landin Castle on the Teufelsberg , the only known hilltop castle in the area. Kotzen was first mentioned in 1352 under the name Cozym . In 1353 the current district of Landin was mentioned in a document as a property of the von Bredow family . The Kotzen castle and estate were owned by the von Stechow family from the 14th century until they were expropriated by the land reform in the Soviet occupation zone .

The district Kriele was probably founded by immigrants from the Rhineland (probably Kriel near Cologne), its first documentary mention comes from the 13th century.

Kotzen, Kriele and Landin belonged to the Westhavelland district in the Prussian province of Brandenburg since 1817 and to the Rathenow district in the GDR district of Potsdam from 1952 . Since 1993, the places have been in the Havelland district in Brandenburg.

In the course of the Brandenburg municipal area reform , the villages of Kotzen, Kriele and Landin merged on October 26, 2003 to form the municipality of Kotzen.

Population development

year	Residents
1875	498
1890	522
1910	444
1925	513
1933	484
1939	479
1946	717
1950	702

year	Residents
1964	514
1971	548
1981	451
1985	493
1989	463
1990	463
1991	450
1992	447
1993	422
1994	416

year	Residents
1995	402
1996	392
1997	382
1998	392
1999	379
2000	362
2001	359
2002	382
2003	650
2004	644

year	Residents
2005	651
2006	643
2007	629
2008	614
2009	631
2010	590
2011	588
2012	582
2013	577
2014	571

year	Residents
2015	585
2016	600
2017	600
2018	589
2019	598

Territory of the respective year, number of inhabitants: as of December 31 (from 1991), from 2011 based on the 2011 census

politics

Community representation

The Kotzen community council consists of eight community representatives and the honorary mayor. The local election on May 26, 2019 resulted in the following distribution of seats:

Voter group	Seats
Proactively throw up	3
Village-nature-culture	2
Interest group Landin	2
Individual applicant Tobias Hünicke	1

mayor

2003–2014: Marlies Ossenbühl
2014–2019: Thomas Behlke (Village-Nature-Culture voter group)
since 2019: Franziska Blask

Blask was elected in the mayoral election on June 16, 2019 with 57.0% of the valid votes for a term of five years.

Attractions

Church in Kriele

In the list of architectural monuments in Kotzen (Havelland) are the monuments entered in the list of monuments of the state of Brandenburg. Other sights are:

Centennial oaks and locust trees in puke
Oak alley in Kotzen
Deer enclosure puke
Viewpoint Hoher Rott in Kotzen
Church in Kriele, the oldest surviving brick church in the Rathenow district from the 13th century
Church in Landin from the 18th century
Conservation area Landiner Lake
Landscape protection area Am Teufelsberg
Burgwall, Landwehr and pump works in Landin

Economy and Infrastructure

traffic

The federal highway 188 between Rathenow and Friesack runs through the municipality.

From April 2, 1900 to 1945, Kotzen was a stop at the Rathenow-Senzke-Nauen district railway .

societies

In the spring of 2009, the home and sports club Kotzen was founded.

Personalities

Max von Bredow (1817–1893), politician, landowner and colonel
Karl Klaus von der Betten (1833–1865), explorer and traveler to Africa , born in Kotzen
Hedwig von Bredow (1853–1932), long-time chairwoman of the women's association of the German Colonial Society , born in Kotzen
Max von Bredow (1855–1918), politician and landowner

Individual evidence

↑ Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).
^ Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Kotzen community
↑ Elisabeth Berner, "Where are you going here after Kotzen?" - Names as the subject of teaching projects in lower secondary level in: Region - Language - Literature, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2017, pp. 105–125
^ Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): The Havelland around Rathenow and Premnitz . A regional study. Landscapes in Germany Values of the German Homeland , Volume 74. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-22297-0 , pp. 240–241.
^ StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003
^ Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Havelland . Pp. 14-17
↑ Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7
^ Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)
^ Result of the local election on May 26, 2019
↑ Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 25
^ Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014
↑ Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act
^ Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019

Web links

Commons : Kotzen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-BB-1] Population in the State of Brandenburg according to municipalities, offices and municipalities not subject to official registration on December 31, 2019 (XLSX file; 223 KB) (updated official population figures) ( help on this ).

[2] Service portal of the state administration Brandenburg. Kotzen community

[3] Elisabeth Berner, "Where are you going here after Kotzen?" - Names as the subject of teaching projects in lower secondary level in: Region - Language - Literature, Universitätsverlag Potsdam, 2017, pp. 105–125

[4] Sebastian children, Haik Thomas Porada (ed.): The Havelland around Rathenow and Premnitz . A regional study. Landscapes in Germany Values of the German Homeland , Volume 74. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-412-22297-0 , pp. 240–241.

[5] StBA: Changes in the municipalities in Germany, see 2003

[6] Historical municipality register of the state of Brandenburg 1875 to 2005. District Havelland . Pp. 14-17

[7] Population in the state of Brandenburg from 1991 to 2015 according to independent cities, districts and municipalities , Table 7

[8] Office for Statistics Berlin-Brandenburg (Ed.): Statistical report AI 7, A II 3, A III 3. Population development and population status in the state of Brandenburg (respective editions of the month of December)

[9] Result of the local election on May 26, 2019

[10] Local elections October 26, 2003. Mayoral elections , p. 25

[11] Result of the mayoral election on May 25, 2014

[12] Section 73 of the Brandenburg Local Election Act

[13] Result of the mayoral election on June 16, 2019