What's in a Prague street name

Děkanská vinice I was built in 1941.

Let’s start by reminding ourselves that we’re not far from Vyšehrad, which has a more than significant place in Czech history (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/, and maybe have a look round https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/category/vysehrad/ for more).

Around the year 1070, the Vyšehrad Chapter / Vyšehradská kapitula was founded, a ‘chapter’ being an assembly or monks or other clergymen connected with a specific cathedral or church.

The church being that of St. Peter and St. Paul, which has held the status of ‘basilica’ since 2003 (more on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/24/prague-2-day-94-k-rotunde/).

And a church will have a dean – or a ‘děkan’ in Czech. And this church’s deacon – well, one of them, and maybe this was never actually true – supposedly had a vineyard (‘vinice’) around here.

The street didn’t refer to the vineyard at first – it was just known as ‘Děkanka’ until 1947.

For the ‘I’, read what is running the risk of being a painfully short story tomorrow.