What's in a Prague street name

Hornokrčská was built in 1920.

The street didn’t have an official name until 1935; apparently, it was ‘unofficially’ known as Zborovská until then, whatever ‘unofficially’ means.

We’re about a year from writing about a street in Prague 5 that is still called Zborovská, but, for now, Zboriv and its WW1 battle get a mention on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/12/prague-1-day-90-most-legii-legion-bridge/.

It’s not unusual for places which we think of as single units to have once been two separate places, with ‘upper’ (horní) and ‘lower’ (dolní) in their names to distinguish them.

For example, there used to be a Horní Nusle and a Dolní Nusle, both with residential farmhouses and both in existence before getting treated quite badly in the Hussite Wars around 1420.

And, as this street name (partially) indicates, we once had villages called Horní Krč and Dolní Krč. The former, in 1900, had 823 inhabitants, whereas present-day Krč has about 27,000.

For a bit of the history of Krč x 2, now Krč x 1, see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/20/prague-4-day-385-krcska/.