Chotěbuz (Polish: Kocobędzⓘ, German: Kotzobendz) is a municipality and village in Karviná District in the Moravian-Silesian Region of the Czech Republic.

At the beginning of the 11th century, people abandoned the gord and founded a new castle and town on a promontory above the Olza, known as Cieszyn.

[4] Chotěbuz was first mentioned in the document of Pope Gregory IX issued in 1229 among villages belonging to Benedictine abbey in Tyniec, as Koczobontz.

[2][5][6] In 1268 it was bestowed by Władysław Opolski to the newly established Benedictine abbey in Orlová Politically it belonged then to the Duchy of Opole and Racibórz and Castellany of Cieszyn, which was in 1290 formed in the process of feudal fragmentation of Poland and was ruled by a local branch of Piast dynasty.

According to the censuses conducted in 1880–1910 the population of the municipality grew from 975 in 1880 to 1,173 in 1910 with a majority being native Polish-speakers (between 95.1% and 97.1%) accompanied by a small German-speaking minority (at most 39 or 3.4% in 1910) and Czech-speaking (at most 17 or 1.5% in 1910).

Following the Munich Agreement, in October 1938 together with the Trans-Olza region it was annexed by Poland, administratively adjoined to Cieszyn County of Silesian Voivodeship.

Chotěbuz is located on the railway line heading from Ostrava to Český Těšín and further to Mosty u Jablunkova.

[13] Podobora is today an archaeological site which was partly rebuilt to form an archeopark open to the public.