What's in a Prague street name

Jaurisova was built in 1920.

Pankrác Jauris was born in 1847, and was a mayor of Michle. There’ll be plenty of Michle coming up in future posts – indeed, this street is partially there, partially in Nusle.

So, for now, I’ll keep it brief and say that the earliest written mention we have of Michle is from 1185, and that it, like Nusle and so many other Prague districts, became part of Prague in 1922.

Jauris founded a restaurant on Michelská, and called it U Jaurisů; it still exists (https://jidelna-u-jaurisu.webnode.cz/).

In 1887, Jauris decided to launch the Michle branch of the Sokol federation (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-114-sokolska/) in one of his restaurants (I can’t confirm if this was U Jaurisů – internet searches for this guy are not especially fruitful).

From 1912, he also ran a restaurant called Na Jezerce, which doesn’t exist these days, but a street and theatre with that name are still very much present.

Jauris died in 1934. Nowadays, the Michle Sokol is on Pod Stárkou (link to be placed here once I’m deep into my Michle era).

On https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/domaci/je-20-let-po-privatizaci-podivejte-se-jak-dopadly-/r~i:gallery:18422/r~i:photo:351961/, there’s a great picture of U Jaurisů in about 1986, with high school students outside. The picture after that one suggests that, in 2011, it had become a Chinese restaurant. It’s definitely serving Czech fare now, and internet reviews seem very positive.