What's in a Prague street name

U Kublova was named in 1906.

Until 1947 (with the inevitable break during the Nazi occupation), the street was called Riegrova, as in the early leader of the Czech nationalist movement, František Ladislav Rieger (1818-1903), who’s also given his name to that park in Vinohrady.

Kublov, meanwhile, was the name of a settlement round here, though not one there’s a tremendous amount of information online about, although this lovely piece suggests its last remnants were destroyed in the 1950s and it lacked sanitation: https://vysehradskej.cz/vzpominky-pametnice-podoli-a-vltava/.

Recent news stories are limited to improvements being made to its local playground: https://www.prazskypatriot.cz/hriste-u-kublova-a-ohradni-prosla-rekonstrukci-s-vyberem-hernich-prvku-pomohla-radnici-anketa/.

Kublov is also the name of a local tram stop which I spent a *lot* of six-o’clock starts (or earlier) at in 2007. I remember being fascinated by the fact that, even at that time, it was hard to get a seat, yet most of the passengers were clearly no longer of working age.

(Now secretly hoping this series will lead me to discover that the world’s greatest nightclub for people aged sixty and above is located in Braník)