What's in a Prague street name

U Děkanky was built in 1988.

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Děkanka is also the name of the athletics stadium that’s located round here: https://iscus.cz/web/pasport/6229.

In the 1920s, this area also became the location of an emergency colony, ie an area of makeshift housing, created to deal with the fact that Prague was now a capital city, and demand for housing was way in excess of availability.

This colony was called Na Děkance, and it lasted until 1962, being cleared to make way for, among other things, the Prague Metro.

Na Děkance became famous for all the wrong reasons in 1934, when it attracted significant attention after the murder of an elderly, destitute widow, Maria Lachmanová.

Her murderer, thankfully, was found, and, despite his attempts at getting a pardon, died in prison: https://dvojka.rozhlas.cz/vrazda-za-dvacku-jeden-z-poslednich-pripadu-rady-vanaska-alias-vacatka-8467740.