What's in a Prague street name

Mirotická was built in 1988.

Mirotice is a town of 1,200 people which, like yesterday’s Čimelice (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/28/prague-4-day-344-cimelicka/), is in Písek District in South Bohemia.

The earliest known written mention is from 1254, by which time it was already a royal town.

Also in common with Čimelice, Mirotice was marked by events occurring in the final days of (the European part of) World War II.

On 28 April 1945, a German military contingent, along with some civilian refugees, arrived here. On the next day, American fighter planes discovered them.

Air raids, shelling and bombing ensued; eleven local residents were killed in the crossfire.

Mirotice is also known as the birthplace, in 1852, of the artist Mikoláš Aleš (whose name you may recognise if you’ve been by the Vltava in Prague 1: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/22/prague-1-day-210-alsovo-nabrezi-ales-embankment/).

The family’s 19th century residence was one of the buildings destroyed by the fighting in April 1945.

Going back a bit, the leading Czech puppeteer, Matěj Kopecký, was not born in Mirotice (in 1775), but did get married there in 1795.

Rounding this post off perfectly, here is Kopecký as drawn by Aleš.

And that’s us done with Lhotka! Our walk around Krč – which will probably take us through to late August, even if I don’t miss a day in that time – starts tomorrow.