What's in a Prague street name

Valtínovská was built in 1979.

Valtínov is another village near Jindřichův Hradec, and actually part of the municipality of Kunžak (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/06/04/prague-4-day-393-kunzacka/). It has about 120 inhabitants.

The earliest written mention that we know of is from 1358. The name means that it was once the property of someone called Valtin, a shorter version of ‘Valentin’.

In the 1600s, a German name – Walterschlag (‘-schlag’ being a clearing) was derived from it; (it’s often the other way round, but Valtínov was almost certainly founded by Czech-speakers.

There haven’t been a huge number of key events in Valtínov, but we do know that, by 1921, it was, once again, exclusively Czech in ethnicity, which is not always the case for places round here (you’d only have to drive south for about twenty minutes to cross the present-day border with Austria).

That journey would probably take you through Slavonice, a case in point (0.4% Czech-speaking in 1910; 14% Czech-speaking in 1930), and also an excuse for me to post some photos of my trip there two months ago.