What's in a Prague street name

U kola was built before 1935.

This is the third part of the wheel trilogy that started on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/08/30/prague-4-day-430-paprskova/ and continued on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/08/31/prague-4-day-431-v-kole/.

In 1912, a late Art Nouveau family house was built here for the family of the lawyer and writer Antal Stašek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/07/prague-4-day-378-antala-staska/), who we’ve discussed a lot in Krč.

It was named Villa Kamila after his wife. It was also the home of their son, Ivan Olbracht (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/30/prague-4-day-346-olbrachtova/), including when he was an adult living with his partner, Helena Malířová.

A frequent visitor to the house was one Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-156-masarykovo-nabrezi/). His regular visits might be why the street was ultimately built (streets are helpful when you have a presidential carriage or car).

The house was renovated in 2015-7, and has a plaque outside commemorating its original residents.

Some very current news on the legacy of Ivan Olbracht: there was going to be a station on the upcoming D line of the metro named after him, but, of course, he was quite the Communist.

So it was announced (yesterday!) that it’s going to be called Ryšánka instead, on which see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/11/10/prague-4-day-225-k-rysance/.