# Kobylisy Shooting Range > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kobylisy_Shooting_Range > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Kobylisy_Shooting_Range.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobylisy_Shooting_Range > Source revision: 1344450802 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) Site of Nazi war crimes in Czechia You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Czech. (June 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must follow the LLM translation guideline, revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. 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Kobylisy Shooting Range Part of Heydrichiáda [cs], German occupation of Czechoslovakia Memorial cross and sculpture by Miloš Zet Native name Kobyliská střelnice Location 50°7′54″N 14°27′47″E / 50.13167°N 14.46306°E / 50.13167; 14.46306 Kobylisy, Prague, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia Date May 30, 1942 (1942-05-30)- July 3, 1942 (1942-07-03) Target Czech resistance to Nazi occupation Attack type Mass executions Deaths 550 Victims Alois Eliáš František Erben Josef Mašín Matěj Pavlík-Gorazd Františka Plamínková Evžen Rošický Vladislav Vančura Perpetrators Karl Hermann Frank Motive Revenge for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich Close-up of memorial plaques with names of the victims. **Kobylisy Shooting Range** ([Czech](/source/Czech_language): *Kobyliská střelnice*) is a former [military](/source/Military) [shooting range](/source/Shooting_range) located in [Kobylisy](/source/Kobylisy), a northern suburb of [Prague](/source/Prague), [Czech Republic](/source/Czech_Republic). ## History The shooting range was established in 1889–1891, on a site that was at the time far outside the city, as a training facility for the [Austro-Hungarian](/source/Austria-Hungary) (and, later, [Czechoslovak](/source/Czechoslovakia)) army. During the [Nazi occupation](/source/German_occupation_of_Czechoslovakia) it was used for mass [executions](/source/Execution_by_firing_squad) as part of retaliatory measures against the [Czech people](/source/Czech_people) after the [assassination of Reinhard Heydrich](/source/Operation_Anthropoid) in 1942. About 550 Czech patriots of every social rank were killed here, most of them between 30 May and 3 July 1942, when executions took place almost every day. Their bodies were subsequently [incinerated](/source/Incineration) in [Strašnice Crematorium](/source/Stra%C5%A1nice_Crematorium). The site was converted to a memorial after [World War II](/source/World_War_II), and its current dimensions date to the 1970s when the large [paneláks](/source/Panel%C3%A1k) (Communist-era tower blocks) of a new [housing estate](/source/Housing_estate) encroached upon it. Kobylisy Shooting Range has had the status of national cultural monument since 1978. Today it is freely accessible and is within ten minutes' walk of the [Kobylisy](/source/Kobylisy_(Prague_Metro)) or [Ládví](/source/L%C3%A1dv%C3%AD_(Prague_Metro)) metro stations. ## Notable victims - [Jan Auerhan](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jan_Auerhan&action=edit&redlink=1), director of the State Bureau of Statistics - [Gen.](/source/General) [Alois Eliáš](/source/Alois_Eli%C3%A1%C5%A1), prime minister - [František Erben](/source/Franti%C5%A1ek_Erben), [Sokol](/source/Czech_Sokol_movement) member and gymnast - [Lt. Col.](/source/Lieutenant_Colonel) [Josef Mašín](/source/Josef_Ma%C5%A1%C3%ADn) soldier, member of the [Three Kings resistance group](/source/Three_Kings_(Czech_antinazi_rezistance)) - [Matěj Pavlík-Gorazd](/source/Mat%C4%9Bj_Pavl%C3%ADk), bishop of the [Czechoslovak Orthodox Church](/source/Czech_and_Slovak_Orthodox_Church), later canonised as St. Gorazd - [Františka Plamínková](/source/Franti%C5%A1ka_Plam%C3%ADnkov%C3%A1), senator, feminist - [Evžen Rošický](/source/Ev%C5%BEen_Ro%C5%A1ick%C3%BD), journalist, athlete - [Vladislav Vančura](/source/Vladislav_Van%C4%8Dura), physician, writer and film director - 26 citizens of [Lidice](/source/Lidice) (members of the Horák and Stříbrný families arrested before the extermination of the village, and men who were away at work that night) ## External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to [Kobylisy Shooting Range](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Kobylisy_Shooting_Range). - [History of the site, complete lists of the executed, photogallery](http://www.lidice.cz/obec/historie/kobyliska/index.html) (in Czech) - [Description of the site](https://www.praha8.cz/Kobylisy-Firing-Range.html) [50°07′54″N 14°27′47″E / 50.13167°N 14.46306°E / 50.13167; 14.46306](https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Kobylisy_Shooting_Range¶ms=50_07_54_N_14_27_47_E_region:CZ_type:landmark) --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Kobylisy Shooting Range](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobylisy_Shooting_Range) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobylisy_Shooting_Range?action=history)). 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