What's in a Prague street name

K podjezdu was built in 1937.

A ‘podjezd’ is an underpass, and this street leads to (‘k’) one.

And this particular underpass leads to Praha-Vršovice railway station, which, as you might have guessed from its name, is not in Nusle (nor is it in Prague 4, so there may be a bit of a wait before I have to write about it in detail).

However, when it was put into operation in 1882, it was known as Nusle Station, and it probably reached its maximum level of attention on 21 December 1918, when one Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-156-masarykovo-nabrezi/) passed through, having just returned to his homeland – which had just been liberated from Austro-Hungarian rule, and which he was now president of: https://www.cd.cz/100-let-spolu/pribehy/-30718/.

It didn’t stop at the station, but it did slow down so that Masaryk could wave at the locals.

The Presidential Train got another outing in 2018 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Masaryk’s journey:

The station was known as Nusle-Vršovice from 1902, but, since 1941, the Nusle has been absent from the name.