What's in a Prague street name

Na Zemance was built in 1935.

A vineyard was probably in place here as far back as the Middle Ages. It survived several centuries, but took a bit of a beating in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740 to 1748).

Reduced from being a vineyard to just being a field, it was purchased by one Mikuláš Jan Miksa in 1756. The vineyard would be revived around 80 years later – but more on that on a later day.

It’s also around the 1840s that a farmstead was built here, and was named Zemanka (it’s not clear which person called Zeman this was presumably named after). It was rebuilt around 1900, and again in 1920.

The 1920s classicist upgrade is what you see before you today (it’s now a villa).