What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 25 July 2022.

U Zásobní zahrady was built in 1947.

A zásobní zahrada is a ‘supply garden’.

The garden here provided flowers for Prague’s parks, and for specific events, from 1937 onwards. That’s a lot of flowers.

It replaced a previous storage garden, also located in Žižkov, but at Rajská zahrada, which we’ll discuss when we get a little more central.

This was a year after the Kapslovna factory closed down, as production was moved to Vlašim in 1936. Meaning that I’ve managed to work out a little bit more of what was here post-factory and pre-biathlon association.

The walls around the southern part of the Kapslovna factory were demolished around 1960; the supply garden disappeared along with them.

There are nice photos of both supply gardens (I think it’s both of them, in any case) on https://praha3.cz/aktualne-z-trojky/zpravy/retrospektiva/zahrada-ktera-zdobila-kvetinami-prahu-n1131671.htm….