What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1894
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Originally published on X on 25 April 2023. We don’t know when the street was built. What we do know is that the road was known as Malá Lazarská (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/prague-2-day-165-lazarska/) until 1909, then becoming part of Lazarská itself until 1934. In 1890, an eleven-point plan, known as Punktace, was drawn up, aiming at Czech-German reconciliation.…
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Originally published on X on 10 April 2023. Jenštejnská was built in 1894. Pavel z Jenštejna was born… somewhere, in the first half of the 14th century. From 1351 to 1374, i.e. during Karel IV’s reign, he was the royal chamber’s notary and the King’s bookkeeper. Karel’s writings referred to him as Paulo de Praga. He…
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Originally published on X on 9 April 2023. Podskalí was built in 1894. František Dittrich was born in Podskalí – i.e. here – in 1801. Being deprived of both parents and his inheritance at an early age, he started to work as a raft swimmer on the Vltava, ultimately making enough money to open a…
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Originally published on X on 26 March 2023. Pod Větrovem was built in 1894. We’ve touched on this one briefly before: Větrník, Větrná hora or Větrov is the (windy) hill which the Church of St. Apollinaire was built on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/25/prague-2-day-113-apolinarska/. In a mildly desperate bid to pump this thread up a bit, let’s look at…
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Originally published on X on 11 March 2023. Na Výtoni was built in 1894, and was called Vejtoňská until 1903. Once upon a time, there was a settlement here called Podskalí. The first written mention is from 1198, but it’s likely to have originated a long time before that. The locals made a living by…
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