What's in a Prague street name

 U Libušiných lázní was built in 1934.

Libuše has been discussed in some detail before – see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/23/prague-2-day-93-libusina/ – but the short version is that she was a legendary ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty.

She is also said to have predicted the future existence of a city you might have heard of. It’s called Prague.

The reason why this is relevant round here? In the 1500s, Václav Hájek z Libočan (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-15-hajkova/) wrote that Libuše used to go bathing on a hill called Bezer or Jezer.

This later became known as Libušina lázeň (‘Libuše’s Bath’). And since the 19th century, it’s been known as Jezerka, which is right next to here, and which we covered on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/19/prague-4-day-51-na-jezerce/.

Meanwhile, if you want to find other places named after Libuše, you might just have to go as far as Louisiana: https://readtheplaque.com/plaque/libuse-czech-colony#gsc.tab=0.