Kosmonosy is a town in

Mladá Boleslav District Mladá Boleslav District ( cs, okres Mladá Boleslav) is a district (''okres'') within Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Mladá Boleslav. Complete list of municipalities Bakov nad Jizerou - Bělá pod Bezd ...

in the

Central Bohemian Region The Central Bohemian Region ( cz, Středočeský kraj, german: Mittelböhmische Region) is an administrative unit ( cz, kraj) of the Czech Republic, located in the central part of its historical region of Bohemia. Its administrative centre is in ...

of the

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. It has about 4,800 inhabitants. The town is known for its psychiatric hospital.

Administrative parts

The village of Horní Stakory is an administrative part of Kosmonosy.

Notable people

Alois Bubák Alois Bubák (20 August 1824, Kosmonosy – 6 March 1870, Prague) was a Czech painter of landscapes and an illustrator. He was a son of a wood carver. After graduating from a gymnasium in Mladá Boleslav, he started to study at a college of ...

(1824–1870), landscape painter *

Gustav Adolf Procházka Gustav Adolf Procházka (11 March 1872, Kosmonosy, Mladá Boleslav District, Czechoslovakia – 9 February 1942, Prague) was the second patriarch of the Czechoslovak Hussite Church. Originally a Roman Catholic priest, he became a reformist or ...

(1872–1942), patriarch of the

Czechoslovak Hussite Church The Czechoslovak Hussite Church ( cs, Církev československá husitská, ''CČSH'' or ''CČH'') is a Christian church that separated from the Catholic Church after World War I in former Czechoslovakia. Both the Czechoslovak Hussite Church and ...

* Václav Kopecký (1897–1961), communist politician

Twin towns – sister cities

Kosmonosy is twinned with: * Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany, since 1997

References

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* Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Populated places in Mladá Boleslav District {{CentralBohemia-geo-stub