What's in a Prague street name

Na Topolce was built in 1925.

Once upon a time, there was a vineyard around here. It was called Topolka.

According to legend, water from the spring here was used to serve Vyšehrad (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/).

At some point, the local well also became known as Topolka; there are rumours that Libuše used drink from it (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/23/prague-2-day-93-libusina/), or, at least, drank from it mythologically, if mythological drinking is a thing.

It seems more likely (again, ‘likely’ needs to be counteracted with ‘although she didn’t exist, at least not in the way the story goes’) that she drank from Jezerka (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/19/prague-4-day-51-na-jezerce/).

The story goes that drinking from this well would help you live a long life. The water was apparently not very safe in the 1980s, but ‘drinkable and tasty’ in 2016: https://www.estudanky.eu/1255-studanka-topolka.

During the Prague Uprising (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/), when Prague’s water supply was cut off, Topolka became Podolí’s only source of drinking water, and apparently had long queues outside it.