What's in a Prague street name

V podluží was built in 1925.

Yesterday, we discussed how a ‘luh’ is a meadow, and that the area around here once had that name too (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/13/prague-4-day-33-v-luhu/).

We’re not straying at all far from that story today, because ‘podluží’ would translate as ‘the area under the meadow’.

Shove ‘Podluží’ into Wikipedia, and you’ll find out that it’s also the name of an ‘ethnographic region’ in the southern tip of Moravia.

If you’ve ever taken a train to Austria, Slovakia or Hungary, you’ve almost certainly been through its main town, Břeclav.

The region also saw a major tornado in June 2021 – the strongest ever in this country, and the deadliest tornado in Europe since 2002: https://www.theguardian.com/weather/2021/jun/25/czech-republic-tornado-deaths-villages-damage-south-moravia-hodonin-hrusky.