What's in a Prague street name

Višňová was built in 1925.

It’s quite nice and green around here (to me, at least), but apparently it used to be greener (as we learned on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/08/20/prague-4-day-425-u-spolecenske-zahrady/).

And it may also have been redder, too – a ‘višeň’ is a sour (or morello) cherry, one of life’s great pleasures, and is also the name of the tree that they grow on. And there was once a cherry orchard round here.

A ‘třešeň’ is also a cherry, or a cherry tree, but not of the sour variant.