What's in a Prague street name

Na hřebenech I was built in 1935.

If you’ve heard the word ‘hřeben’ recently, it’s probably because you have to use one quite regularly (or you keep mislaying them and having to buy new ones) – it’s a comb.

It’s also the name for a geographical feature, though – it would be translated as ‘ridge’ or ‘crest’.

And this street is on the ‘ridges’ between Pankrác (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/04/25/prague-4-day-84-na-pankraci/) and Podolí.

‘Zlatý hřeb’, which literally translates as ‘golden comb’ (or ‘golden ridge’, I guess), means the ‘highlight’ or ‘high point’, eg of an evening.