What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1935
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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