What's in a Prague street name

Skaláků was built in 1975.

The Alois Jirásek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-154-jiraskovo-namesti/) series continues.

Skaláci (1876) is Jirásek’s novel about the Peasant’s Uprising which took place 101 years earlier. I won’t go into huge detail on that (spoiler: the peasants were still peasants after it), as it’s sure to come up in other posts.

For the title of the novel, we have to rewind to 1628, when a character called Jíra Skalák had taken part in a peasant rebellion in the Náchod region.

After being arrested and physically punished, he moved to a farm which subsequently became known as ‘Na skalce’. The family endured, and the novel then follows his descendants during the events of 1775.

Skaláci was Jirásek’s first novel; he would write another five novels about the post-Bílá Hora period of Czech history, including Temno, as discussed two days ago (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/03/prague-4-day-248-machovcova/).