Kobylisy Shooting Range, Memorial site in Kobylisy district, Prague, Czech Republic
Kobylisy Shooting Range is a rectangular memorial ground featuring bronze sculptures, name plaques, and a metal cross within earthwork walls. The site sits among residential buildings and creates a solemn space for remembrance.
The area started as an Austro-Hungarian military shooting range before German occupiers used it as an execution site. The mass killings in 1942 marked a turning point, leading to its recognition as a national cultural monument in 1978.
The site's name comes from the village of Kobylisy, on whose edge the range was built in 1890; Střelničná street, leading toward Prosek, was named after the range in 1938. Metal plaques opposite the execution site list each victim's name, hour, day, month, year and completed age. Marie Pujmanová depicted the executions in her novel Život proti smrti.
The grounds are freely accessible and lie about ten minutes on foot from the Kobylisy or Ládví metro stations. The single entrance passes through the earthwork rampart, where verses by Miroslav Florian are carved into a slab. The site was closed from March 2015 to April 2016 for reconstruction costing roughly 13 million korunas.
The kneeling bronze figure is the work of sculptor Miloš Zet, not Žet. The wooden cross behind it was replaced in December 2007 because the original wood had decayed; the gilded crown of thorns marks the cross centre.
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