What's in a Prague street name

Horáčkova was most likely built in the 1930s.

Until 1952, it was named U družstev after the housing cooperatives (družstva) that built the surrounding residential buildings.

Vlastimil Horáček was born in 1927. At the time of the Prague Uprising, he was a student at a technical school.

On 7 May 1945, Vlastimil was killed during fighting between the Czech insurgents and the Nazi occupiers. He was eighteen.

His death occurred on Na Jezerce street in nearby Nusle (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/19/prague-4-day-51-na-jezerce/), where there is a memorial plaque to him.

For more on events on 7 May 1945, see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/04/prague-4-day-350-heralecka-ii/, one of several recent posts on the Uprising (a good opportunity to also announce that the website now has a search bar. Hello, Ed, meet the 21st century).