What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 3 August 2022.

Trocnovská was built in 1889.

Trocnov, population 112, is a village in the České Budějovice district. Before 1949, the name ‘Trocnov’ only referred to the court there, and the village itself was called Záluží (approx. ‘Behind the Floodplain’).

Jan Žižka was born less than two kilometres from the village.

According to legend, he was born in the forest under an oak tree, next to fields which belonged to one of the two Meierhofs of the village.

A Meierhof is a farm or building, occupied by the administrator of a noble or ecclesiastical estate.