What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

1935

  • Prague 4, day 160: Pod Pekařkou

    Pod Pekařkou was built in 1935. On day 119, we learnt about Pekařka, a 19th-century farmstead. That day’s street – Nad Pekařkou – was above where the farmstead once stood (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/16/prague-4-day-119-nad-pekarkou/). Pod Pekařkou is, yes, beneath said farmstead (and is about 35-40 years older than Nad Pekařkou. The perils of covering these streets in an Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 120: Nad cementárnou

    Nad cementárnou was built in 1935. False friend alert: a ‘cementárna’ is not a cemetery, even though one is nearby and has given its name to a street in the area. It’s a cement factory. Such a factory was opened in Podolí in 1871. It soon ran into financial difficulties, as the Vienna Stock Exchange Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 118: K sídlišti

    K sídlišti was built in 1935. Until 1952, the street was called V rovinách II. I’ll say no more until we get to V rovinách (‘I’ no longer required). A ‘sídliště’ is a settlement, but it’s also the term for a housing estate – a residential area with multi-storey residential buildings – panel houses, or, Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 115: Na hřebenech I

    Na hřebenech I was built in 1935. If you’ve heard the word ‘hřeben’ recently, it’s probably because you have to use one quite regularly (or you keep mislaying them and having to buy new ones) – it’s a comb. It’s also the name for a geographical feature, though – it would be translated as ‘ridge’ Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 111: Pod Děkankou

    Pod Děkankou was built in 1935. To find out why this area was called Děkanka (which this street is ‘under’), see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/03/prague-4-day-107-dekanska-vinice-i/. To find out about the residential area called Na Děkance which existed for about 40 years in the 20th century, see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/05/prague-4-day-109-u-dekanky/. In line with other similar ’emergency colonies’ set up in Prague Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 94: Na Bučance

    Na Bučance was built in 1935. Josef Ignác Franz Buček was born in Příbor, then known as Freiberg, in 1741. He studied philosophy in Olomouc and Vienna, later becoming a professor of economic sciences at the University of Prague. Around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, he built a farmstead round here, with Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 20: Pod Terebkou

    Pod Terebkou (‘Under Terebka’) was built in 1935. Once upon a time, this area was either a vineyard or just a regular field, but, in 1841, a homestead was built here. Later in the century, it was purchased by Rudolf Tereba (1851-1904), an architect who had travelled around Italy, later settling in Prague and building Continue reading

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  • Prague 2, day 73: Pod Zvonařkou

    Originally published on Twitter on 18 January 2023. Pod Zvonařkou was built in 1935. Nice and quick this morning: while day 60 (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/07/06/prague-2-day-60-u-zvonarky/) was at Zvonařka, today is under it. And Zvonařka is another ex-vineyard. However, there’s still something special to say about Pod Zvonařkou: in 1889, number 65 was purchased by one Antonín Chmel, Continue reading

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  • Prague 3, day 171: V Horní Stromce

    Originally published on Twitter on 11 October 2022. V Horní Stromce was built in 1935. Horní Stromka (‘Upper Tree’) was an estate that appeared in this location around the 16th century. In 1723, it was purchased by a married couple called the Svobodas. In 1757, during the Seven Years’ War, the homestead was devastated during the Continue reading

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  • Prague 3, day 169: Zásmucká

    Originally published on Twitter on 9 October 2022. Zásmucká was built in 1935. Zásmuky is a town of 2,100 people, 16 km to the south-west of Kolín, first mentioned in 1285. Originally owned by the Zásmucký family (originally enough), it was acquired by the Šternberk clan, one of the oldest Bohemian noble families, in the Continue reading

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  • Prague 3, day 72: U Nákladového nádraží

    Originally published on Twitter on 4 July 2022. U Nákladového nádraží was built in 1935 but not given a name until 1947. Nákladové nádraží Žižkov, or Žižkov freight railway station, is the biggest functionalist industrial building in Prague and a notorious Destroyer of Neighbourhoods (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/21/prague-3-day-70-na-viktorce/ and https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/22/prague-3-day-71-k-cervenemu-dvoru/). It also gets to have *two* tram stops Continue reading

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  • Prague 3, day 54: V Zeleni

    V Zeleni was built in 1935. It translates as ‘in green’, ‘in green vegetation’ / ‘in greenery’ / ‘in verdure’, etc. As if that name needed any explanation, V Zeleni leads into https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/prague-3-day-29-v-zahradkach/, ‘In the gardens’. Which has https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/20/prague-3-day-48-pod-lipami/ (under the lindens) at its northernmost point. And ‘flowery’ a little bit further down: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/20/prague-3-day-52-kvetinkova/. You Continue reading

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