What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1952
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Květnových bojů was built in 1952. ‘Květnových bojů’ translates as (street) ‘of the May battles’, and commemorates the fact that Krč had a particularly hard time of it during the Prague Uprising of 1945. There have been a good few posts about the Prague Uprising, especially recently; https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/category/prague-uprising/ should guide you to all of them.
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Bartákova was named in 1952. Miloslav Barták was born in Pisnice (nowadays in Prague 12, south of here) in 1906. He worked as a teacher and lived on Neveklovská, which is coming up in a few days. On 31 December 1941, Barták was tortured to death at Mauthausen, a concentration camp about 20 kilometres east…
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Stallichova was named in 1952, but built before then. Antonín Stallich was born in Vinohrady in 1887. In 1921, he married Anna Hronová, the younger sister of Antonín Hron, a World War I veteran who was active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and ultimately died of exhaustion at Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Antonín (Stallich)…
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Vostrý was built in 1952. Another day, another character from a Jirásek novel. Actually, no, another day, another character from Temno by Jirásek (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/03/prague-4-day-248-machovcova/). In said novel, Vostrý is a Protestant priest – a big no-no to the Habsburgs – and distributes non-Catholic literature. And he’s also the one who tries to get Machovec’s…
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Zelený pruh was built in… read on. In 1941, a street, intended to be called Weilburgova, was built. It was named after Jan Weilburg z Widy, who, in the late 1400s, was the highest scribe in the Old Town. We have to assume he was a German speaker, not only because of his name, but…
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Jeremenkova has exited in its current form since 1952; before then, it consisted of two separate streets called Dvorecká (built 1906) and Pod vrstami (created 1938). More on those in future posts, as there are still streets with those names. Andrei Ivanovich Yeremenko was born to a peasant family in Markivka, near Kharkiv, in 1892.…
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U Jezerky was named in 1952. We’re entering repetition territory again: U Jezerky is located next to Jezerka, which we gave due attention on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/19/prague-4-day-51-na-jezerce/. And which is also the source (pun intended) of the stories behind https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/27/prague-4-day-47-pod-pramenem/, https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/22/prague-4-day-54-pod-lazni/ and https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/26/prague-4-day-58-u-libusinych-lazni/.
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Rovnoběžná was named in 1952. ‘Rovnoběžná’ is the feminine version of ‘rovnoběžný’, which translates as ‘parallel’. And, because everything is about Družstevní ochoz (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/28/prague-4-day-60-druzstevni-ochoz/) round here, this street is parallel to that one. Such is the importance of The Ochoz that the two addresses on Rovnoběžná, located between Družstevní ochoz 30 and 36, are numbered…
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K ochozu was given its name in 1952. It leads to (k) Družstevní ochoz, which we discussed yesterday: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/28/prague-4-day-60-druzstevni-ochoz/. Yes, that was incredibly brief, but that feels quite fitting for a street which has a grand total of one address on it.
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