What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 4 May 2022.

Built in 1975, Na Ohradě the newest street that I’ve written about to date.

Like yesterday’s Vápenka, Ohrada is a former homestead, founded somewhere around the year 1400, and containing a large vineyard.

An ohrada is a fence, a barrier or an enclosure. Presumably there was one around the vineyard.

The first documented owner was one Pavlík Svachov; he solid it to a shopkeeper called Zikmund, and it was later owned by a Jan Wolf. The first written record referring to it as Ohrada dates from 1455.

Documents from 1785 stated that Ohrada consisted of three buildings; in 1908, each was owned by a married couple: the Hlaváčeks, the Kasls and the Oppels.

The land was purchased in the early 20th century, followed by the homestead, which was subsequently demolished.

Trolleybuses ran at Ohrada between 1951 and 1966; Prague stopped using trolleybuses entirely in 1972, although they made a comeback in 2017 (but not at Ohrada).