What's in a Prague street name

Originally published on X on 30 March 2024.

According to one source, Petr Štupart z Löwenthal was a hetman (i.e. a military commander) in the imperial army for fifteen years, after which he moved to Prague and worked in the Royal Chamber for three decades.

In 1664, Štupart purchased a house in the vicinity, and I’ll write about that tomorrow as it’s not actually on this street.

Things that are on Štupartská, and which I’ll therefore write about instead today, include Dům U Hřebene, which you may recognise from its other side on Celetná (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/09/prague-1-day-180-celetna/).

Built in 1883, this was the building it replaced.

Number 12, meanwhile, is another entrance to Menhartovský palác (covered in the Celetná thread).

These fine buildings deserve to be photographed too.

As does one of Prague’s greatest views (to me, at least). If this view isn’t a book cover already, it should be.

Here’s my (sightly filtered, but it was still a glorious day) photo of the same view from April 2016, at which point I’d already decided I was moving back to Prague but hadn’t yet told anyone.