U podolského hřbitova was named in the 1940s. Yesterday’s street name could be mistaken for being about a cemetery (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/17/prague-4-day-120-nad-cementarnou/); today’s is.
There’s a street in Podolí which is called Pod Vyšehradem; it’ll get its own post soon enough, but for now it’s enough to say two things. Firstly, it is, indeed, below Vyšehrad.
Secondly, it has a church called the Church of St. Michael the Archangel. The church was accompanied by a cemetery which served the then-separate town of Podolí.
In 1885, however, a new cemetery was founded here; the cemetery at the church was closed down and turned into a park.
In 1912, the (no longer very) new cemetery was doubled in size.
As well as its twelve tombs, it has about 1,200 graves. The most well-known people buried there are arguably composer Václav Trojan (1907-1983), neurophysiologist Jan Bureš (1926-2012) and film director Bořivoj Zeman (1921-1991).
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