What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 21 July 2022.

Náměstí Barikád was built in 1904, bearing its current name (Barricade Square) since 1952.

Until 1952, this was Perštýnovo náměstí, named after the Pernštejn family, a distinguished noble family from south-western Moravia.

Recent followers of these posts will be *stunned* to know that they were Hussites.

The square was renamed after the barricades that were erected in Žižkov during the Prague Uprising in 1945.

On 28 October 1968, a Lípa republiky (Linden of the Republic) was planted on the square to commemorate 50 years since the founding of Czechoslovakia. http://prazskestromy.cz/stromy/vyznamne-stromy/90-lipa-republiky-na-namesti-barikad-na-zizkove/

The most famous building on the square is probably the Hussian Congregation of Jan Žižka (Husův sbor Jana Žižky), a prayer house (photo links to Wikipedia as it’s much better than the one I took): https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hus%C5%AFv_sbor_(%C5%BDi%C5%BEkov)#/media/Soubor:%C5%BDi%C5%BEkov_Hus%C5%AFv_sbor_J._%C5%BDi%C5%BEky_1.jpg