What's in a Prague street name

Na Bučance was built in 1935.

Josef Ignác Franz Buček was born in Příbor, then known as Freiberg, in 1741. He studied philosophy in Olomouc and Vienna, later becoming a professor of economic sciences at the University of Prague.

Around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, he built a farmstead round here, with an extensive orchard, and called it Bučanka.

Buček died in 1821; later owners of the farmstead included one Václav Bělský, a mayor who purchased it in 1853 and built a villa on it called Bělka.

This explains the name of the former football pitch discussed yesterday on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/05/12/prague-4-day-93-pankracke-namesti/.

As the surrounding area became increasingly urbanised, the farmstead disappeared. It still existed in the 1920s, when it looked like this.