Bítouchov is a municipality and village in

Mladá Boleslav District Mladá Boleslav District () is a district in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. Its capital is the city of Mladá Boleslav. Administrative division Mladá Boleslav District is divided into two administrative districts of municipal ...

in the

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of the

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. It has about 400 inhabitants.

Administrative division

Bítouchov consists of three municipal parts (in brackets population according to the 2021 census): *Bítouchov (305) *Dalešice (58) *Dolánky (68)

Geography

Bítouchov is located about north of

Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav (; ) is a city in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 47,000 inhabitants. It lies on the left bank of the Jizera (river), Jizera River. Mladá Boleslav is the second most populated city in the region. I ...

and northeast of

Prague Prague ( ; ) is the capital and List of cities and towns in the Czech Republic, largest city of the Czech Republic and the historical capital of Bohemia. Prague, located on the Vltava River, has a population of about 1.4 million, while its P ...

. It lies in the

Jizera Table The Jizera Table () is a plateau and a geomorphological mesoregion of the Czech Republic. It is located mostly in the Central Bohemian Region, northeast of Prague. Geomorphology The Jizera Table is a mesoregion of the Central Bohemian Table wit ...

History

The first written mention of Bítouchov is from 1388. However, a mention of "Bítúch's court" allegedly appeared as early as the 12th century. The village was part of the Zvířetice estate.

Demographics

Transport

The railway line Mladá Boleslav–

Rumburk Rumburk (; ) is a town in Děčín District in the Ústí nad Labem Region of the Czech Republic. It has about 11,000 inhabitants. It lies on the border with Germany. Administrative division Rumburk consists of three municipal parts (in brackets ...

runs through the southern part of the municipality and along the northern municipal border, but there is no train station.

Sights

The only cultural monument in Bítouchov is the Chapel of the Virgin Mary, located in the centre of the village. It was built in the

Empire style The Empire style (, ''style Empire'') is an early-nineteenth-century design movement in architecture, furniture, other decorative arts, and the visual arts, representing the second phase of Neoclassicism. It flourished between 1800 and 1815 duri ...

in 1830.

Notable people

* Voitre Marek (1919–1999), Czech-Australian artist

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bitouchov Villages in Mladá Boleslav District