What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on Twitter on 13 August 2022.

Příběnická was built in 1899.

It was called Chodská until 1947, after the old name for the area around Domažlice (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-14-domazlicka/).

The Chodové, who lived in the region, were direct subjects of the King, and were responsible for guarding the border between Bohemia and Bavaria.

Příběnice, meanwhile, is a derelict castle in the Tábor district, established by the  Rožmberk family in the 13th century.

The owner of the castle in the early 1400s, Oldřich II z Rožmberka, was initially a Hussite, but later moved over to the Catholic side, presumably out of fear of the nearby Táborites.

He was probably right to fear them, as they took over the castle in 1420 and destroyed the town of Příběnice in 1428.

After the Táborites were defeated at the Battle of Lipany in 1434, they were gradually forced to come to terms with the Rožmberks. A peace treaty was signed in 1437, one of the conditions of which was that the castle should be destroyed.

The ruins of the castle can still be accessed as part of a hiking trail from Tábor.