What's in a Prague street name
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Category: 1990
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Za dvorem was built in 1990. Quick one today: ‘Za dvorem’ translates as ‘Behind the court’, and we spoke about that court on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/09/21/prague-4-day-450-pod-jalovym-dvorem/.
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Tavolníková was built in 1990. ‘Tavolník’ is Czech for ‘spiraea’, also known as ‘meadowsweets’ or ‘steeplebushes’, a genus of plants belonging to the rose family. They’re deciduous shrubs, found across the northern hemisphere, but especially in Eastern Asia. They are not generally eaten – although Native Americans used to – and are frequently used as…
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Thomayerova was built in 1990. Josef Thomayer was born in Trhanov, near Domažlice in the Chodsko Region (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/01/30/prague-2-day-25-chodska/) in 1853. He went to school in Klatovy in the Plzeň region, where one of his classmates would later change his name to Jaroslav Vrchlický and become a famous poet. Thomayer then studied medicine in Prague, and…
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Roškotova was built in 1990. Kamil Roškot was born in Vlašim in 1886; as a teenager, he studied at the gymnasium on Křemencova (Bohemia’s first Realgymnasium – see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/13/prague-1-day-100-kremencova/). From 1904 to 1910, he studied civil engineering at Prague’s German Technical University, while taking part-time architecture classes at the Czech counterpart. This was followed by further…
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Podolské nábřeží has existed in its current form since 1990. From 1904 to 1906, the part of the embankment leading from the Vyšehrad Tunnel (mentioned on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-122-podskalska/) to Podolská (which will get its own post in a couple of days) was called Vyšehradské nábřeží, ie the Vyšehrad Embankment. From 1906 to 1924, it was named…
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Originally published on Twitter on 27 May 2022. Luční was built in 1931. From 1931 to 1990, this was called Luční I. A nearby street was built in the same year, called, yes, Luční II. Clearly wanting to get a bit of that post-Berlin Wall vibe (or because Luční II got fed up with being…
