The historic town centre is well preserved and is protected by law as an urban monument zone.

During the Hussite Wars, Touškov was destroyed by the army of Jan Žižka and became a village again, but it recovered and from 1472 it was called a market town again.

After the devastation of Touškov during the Thirty Years' War, settlers from Germany were invited to the market town, and a German majority gradually emerged.

[3] From 1938 to 1945, Město Touškov was annexed by Nazi Germany and administered as part of the Reichsgau Sudetenland.

[3] The I/20 road from Plzeň to Karlovy Vary (part of the European route E49) runs along the northern municipal border.