What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1908
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Originally published on Twitter on 16 January 2023. U Havlíčkových sadů was built in 1908. From 1940 to 1945, the street was Grébovky. Which leads us to the fact that the park is known as both Havlíčkovy sady and Grébovka (with Gröbovka also being an option). It will surprise precisely nobody that area where the…
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Originally published on Twitter on 26 November 2022. Krkonošská was built in 1908. The Krkonoše – Riesengebirge in German, and Giant Mountains in English – are located in north-eastern Bohemia and in Polish Silesia. They’re the tallest mountain range in the Czech Republic. They also form part of the Sudetes, a ‘geomorphological subprovince’ shared by…
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Originally published on Twitter on 25 November 2022. Na Švihance was built in 1908. I’m not managing to work out what švihanka translates as, though. Švihat is to whip or flick (which leads to průšvih – trouble), and for the sake of people, horses and cream, I hope this isn’t the origin. (OK, I may…
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Originally published on Twitter on 17 October 2022. Chrudimská was built in 1908. Chrudim, population 23,000, is the second-largest city in the Pardubice region. It was first mentioned in writing in 1055, when Břetislav I died there during a military campaign. A proper city was then constructed here starting in 1263, at the initiative of…
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Originally published on Twitter on 16 October 2022. I’m really rubbish at transferring these to the website so far. Hradecká was built in 1908. Hradec Králové (German: Königgrätz), population 91,000, literally translates as ‘Queen’s Castle’. It’s the capital of the eponymous region (Královéhradecký kraj in Czech, so… eponymous-ish), in north-East Bohemia. Originally just called Hradec…
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Zelenky Hajského was built, with a different name (see later), in 1908. Jan Zelenka (1895-1942), born in Kamenný Újezd, but spending most of his life in Prague, was a primary school teacher, and, later, member of the Czech resistance in WW2. From 1925, he worked in a newly-built school in Háj u Duchcova, where he…
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Originally published on Twitter on 8 May 2022. Hájkova was built in 1908. Václav Hájek z Libočan – or, if you prefer, Wenceslaus Hájek of Libočany (died 1553) was a chronicler and author of the Czech Chronicle (Kronika česká, 1541). Originally a Protestant, he converted to Catholicism in 1521; from 1524, he worked as a…
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