What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 3 July 2022.

K Červenému dvoru was built in 1925.

Červený dvůr (Red Court) is another local settlement that no longer exists.

It’s recorded that there were vineyards here as early as the mid-15th century. By the mid-18th century, there was a farming estate called Direktorka.

Direktorka was renamed Červený dvůr at some point (it’s not clear exactly when). It was located south of another farmstead, Vápenka, which we covered under https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-10-na-vapence/.

Viktorka (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/21/prague-3-day-70-na-viktorce/) may have been destroyed as Nákladové nádraží Žižkov was expanded, but Červený dvůr had even worse luck – it disappeared when the freight station was being constructed in the first place, and was completely gone by 1938.