What's in a Prague street name

Chýnovská was built in 1972.

Chýnov is a town of 2,600 people in South Bohemia, eleven kilometres to the east of Tábor (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/06/prague-4-day-26-taborska/).

Before the town existed, there was a hillfort of the same name, associated with the Slavník dynasty (circa 981) if we believe Kosmas and his Chroncicle (circa over 120 years later).

It was an important administrative centre until 1250, when King Wenceslas I sold it to Mikuláš z Újezda, the 23rd Bishop of Prague.

By 1289, Chýnov the town existed; however, after 1413, the Bishops of Prague rented it out and never paid a great deal of attention to it.

Chýnov’s most famous sons include the Art Nouveau and Symbolist sculptor, František Bílek (1872-1941); his brother, Antonín (1881-1936), was also a sculptor (and painter).

As well as actor František Němec, born in 1943, a member of the National Theatre’s drama company, winner of a Thalia award in 1988, and star of several classics of Czech cinema: Ucho, Adéla ještě nevečeřela, Samotáři and Rebelové.