Katusice | |
Settlement Type: | Municipality |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Central Bohemian |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Mladá Boleslav |
Pushpin Map: | Czech Republic |
Pushpin Relief: | 1 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in the Czech Republic |
Coordinates: | 50.4453°N 14.7775°W |
Established Title: | First mentioned |
Established Date: | 1352 |
Area Total Km2: | 16.13 |
Elevation M: | 308 |
Population As Of: | 2024-01-01 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 831 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone1: | CET |
Utc Offset1: | +1 |
Timezone1 Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset1 Dst: | +2 |
Postal Code Type: | Postal codes |
Postal Code: | 294 25, 294 26 |
Katusice is a municipality and village in Mladá Boleslav District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 800 inhabitants.
The villages of Doubravice, Spikaly, Trnová and Valovice are administrative parts of Katusice. Doubravice and Trnová form an exclave of the municipal territory.
The name is derived from the personal name Katous, meaning "the village of Katous' people".[2]
Katusice is located about 10km (10miles) west of Mladá Boleslav and 41km (25miles) northeast of Prague. It lies in the Jizera Table. The highest point is the hill Bezvel at 340m (1,120feet) above sea level.
The first written mention of Katusice is from 1352, when the local church was documented.[3]
Katusice is located on the railway line Mělník–Mladějov, but in the off season it is only in operation on weekends.[4]
The main landmark of Katusice is the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary. It is a neo-Gothic church with a Gothic-Renaissance core. It was built in 1853–1857.[5]