Město Touškov (; german: Tuschkau Stadt) is a town in Plzeň-North District in the Plzeň Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 2,200 inhabitants. The town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

Administrative parts

The village of Kůští is an administrative part of Město Touškov. It forms an

exclave An enclave is a territory (or a small territory apart of a larger one) that is entirely surrounded by the territory of one other state or entity. Enclaves may also exist within territorial waters. ''Enclave'' is sometimes used improperly to deno ...

of the municipal territory.

Geography

Město Touškov is located about northwest of

Plzeň Plzeň (; German and English: Pilsen, in German ) is a city in the Czech Republic. About west of Prague in western Bohemia, it is the Statutory city (Czech Republic), fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic with about 169,000 inhabita ...

. It lies in the Plasy Uplands.

Notable people

Simon von Lämel Simon Edler von Lämel (August 1766 – 18 April 1845) was an Austrian-Jewish merchant who devoted his life to bettering the lives of his fellow Jews. He was born in Tuschkau (now Město Touškov), near Pilsen, Bohemia. His father died early o ...

(1766–1845), Austrian-Jewish merchant

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* Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Holocaust locations Jewish communities in the Czech Republic Jewish Czech history Populated places in Plzeň-North District Shtetls {{Jewish-hist-stub