What's in a Prague street name

Vostrý was built in 1952.

Another day, another character from a Jirásek novel.

Actually, no, another day, another character from Temno by Jirásek (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/03/prague-4-day-248-machovcova/).

In said novel, Vostrý is a Protestant priest – a big no-no to the Habsburgs – and distributes non-Catholic literature. And he’s also the one who tries to get Machovec’s children to join their father abroad (success rate: one out of two).

It turns out that Vostrý was (based on) a real person, first name Jiří, born in 1702. He lived in exile in Zittau, now in Germany. He later moved to Berlin, specifically to Rixdorf (do check out https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/20/prague-3-day-63-rixdorfska/ – you won’t regret it).

Vostrý came back to Bohemia during the Seven Years’ War, but was arrested for being a spy, and died under torture in 1760.