It has a high tower. Notable people Moses Sofer (1762–1839), one of the leading Orthodox rabbis of European Jewry Hirsch Bär Fassel (1802–1883), rabbi and philosopher Hermann Wassertrilling (18??–1887), Austrian Hebraist Solomon H. Sonneschein (1839–1908), Hungarian-American rabbi Karel Absolon (1877–1960), archaeologist, paleontologist and speleologist Otakar Kubín (1883–1969), painter and sculptor Hermann Ungar (1893–1929), writer Josef Augusta (1903–1968), paleontologist and geologist Tomáš Špidlík (1919–2010), prelate of the Catholic Church Josef Koudelka (born 1938), photographer Pavel Kysilka (born 1958), economist Ladislav Maier (born 1966), footballer Yvetta Hlaváčová (born 1975), long-distance swimmer Twin towns – sister cities Boskovice is twinned with: Frasnes-lez-Anvaing, Belgium Levice, Slovakia Prnjavor, Bosnia and Herzegovina Rawa Mazowiecka, Poland Gallery References External links Boskovice Castle Boskovice Château Populated places in Blansko District Cities and towns in the Czech Republic Shtetls Castles in the South Moravian Region Margraviate of Moravia