What's in a Prague street name

Pod lázní was built in 1925.

This street is under a ‘lázeň’, which we can translate as ‘bath’. To find out where that is (sorry, was), we need to head back to Jezerka (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/19/prague-4-day-51-na-jezerce/)

Once upon a time, a clean spring of water used to flow from Jezerka to Vyšehrad (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/).

As far back as 1361, the Vyšehrad Chapter had walls put round the spring, and replaced the wooden pipes with stone ones.

Much later – in the 1920s, which, you may have noticed, is when all these streets, and therefore a huge number of houses, were built – the spring was filled in.

The internet politely informs me that any water flowing around here is ‘not safe to drink, due to the increased content of nitrates, sulphates and the presence of bacteria’. Well noted.

There are a couple of legends about the spring, but I’ll bring those up again in a few days.