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| Kobylisy Shooting Range | |
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| Part ofHeydrichiáda [cs],German occupation of Czechoslovakia | |
 Memorial cross and sculpture by Miloš Zet | |
| Native name | Kobyliská střelnice |
| Location | 50°7′54″N14°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 | |
| Perpetrators | Karl Hermann Frank |
| Motive | Revenge for theassassination of Reinhard Heydrich |
Kobylisy Shooting Range (Czech:Kobyliská střelnice) is a formermilitaryshooting range located inKobylisy, a northern suburb ofPrague,Czech Republic.
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 theAustro-Hungarian (and, later,Czechoslovak) army. During theNazi occupation it was used for massexecutions as part of retaliatory measures against theCzech people after theassassination of Reinhard Heydrich 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 subsequentlyincinerated inStrašnice Crematorium.
The site was converted to a memorial afterWorld War II, and its current dimensions date to the 1970s when the largepaneláks (Communist-era tower blocks) of a newhousing 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 theKobylisy orLádví metro stations.
50°07′54″N14°27′47″E / 50.13167°N 14.46306°E /50.13167; 14.46306