What's in a Prague street name

Pikrtova was formerly part of 5. května (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/), but construction of the nearby main road changed its shape so much that it was declared a separate street in 1977.

We don’t have tremendous amounts of information about Josef Pikrt – for example, we don’t know his year of birth.

We do know that he was a member of the Communist Party’s inner committee in Nusle, and that he took part in resistance activities during World War II.

He was ultimately arrested for this, and executed in Dresden in 1943.