Katusice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the

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of the

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. It has about 800 inhabitants.

Administrative parts

Villages of Doubravice, Spikaly, Trnová and Valovice are administrative parts of Katusice. Doubravice and Trnová form an

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of the municipal territory.

Geography

Katusice is located about west of

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; german: Jungbunzlau) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 42,000 inhabitants. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region and a major centre of the Czech automotive ind ...

and northeast of

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. It lies in the Jizera Table. The highest point is the hill Bezvel at above sea level.

History

The first written mention of Katusice is from 1352, when the local church was documented.

Transport

Katusice is located on a railway line from Mělník to Mladá Boleslav and

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Sights

The landmark of Katusice is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is a neo-Gothic parish church with a Gothic-Renaissance core. It was built in 1853–1857.

References

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* {{authority control Villages in Mladá Boleslav District