What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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I could talk about myself for ages, or I could point out that https://english.radio.cz/ed-ley-englishman-recording-stories-pragues-streets-one-one-8806941 is over two years old but still largely stands (other than the Twitter links).
Category: Cemeteries
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U podolského hřbitova was named in the 1940s. Yesterday’s street name could be mistaken for being about a cemetery (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/17/prague-4-day-120-nad-cementarnou/); today’s is. There’s a street in Podolí which is called Pod Vyšehradem; it’ll get its own post soon enough, but for now it’s enough to say two things. Firstly, it is, indeed, below Vyšehrad. Secondly,…
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Originally published on X on 5 May 2024. This might be the Old (Jewish) Cemetery, but it’s not the oldest in Prague – we know that there was another one in the present-day New Town, dating back to at least 1254: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/14/prague-1-day-107-charvatova/. King Vladislav II had that one closed down in 1478. However, this cemetery…
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Originally published on X on 8 January 2024. Prague’s New Town was founded in 1348; of its early citizens, we know that there was one called Jakub Charvát. We can also assume he was quite well-off, because, in 1378, he bought two houses (now at numbers 33 and 34 on this street), as well as…
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Originally published on X on 11 February 2023. Until 1888, this street was known as Na hřbitově, as it led to the Vyšehrad Cemetery. Then, from 1961 to 1995, it was part of K rotundě (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/24/prague-2-day-94-k-rotunde/). The rest of the time, it’s been Štulcova. Václav Štulc was born in Kladno in 1814. After studying theology…
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Originally published on Twitter on 2 October 2022. U Vinohradského hřbitova, built in 1925, translates as ’By the Vinohrady Cemetery’. Vinohrady Cemetery was built in 1885, and was mainly used for the burial of upper-class Prague citizens. It was expanded over the next forty years, and is now the second-largest cemetery in Prague in terms…
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Originally published on Twitter on 30 September 2022. Pod židovskými hřbitovy was built in 1981 (like me). Another belated ‘oh, that’s Prague 3’ moment – the only street sign says otherwise, but the northernmost part of the short street is actually in the district. The street name translates as ‘Under the Jewish Cemeteries’, and that’s…
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Originally published on Twitter on 31 July 2022. Izraelská was built in 1945. Until 1995, the street was part of ‘Nad vodovodem’ (‘Above the water pipeline’), which is still located directly to the east of it in Prague 10. Izraelská is directly south of the New Jewish Cemetery. The cemetery founded in 1890, as the…
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Originally published on Twitter on 5 July 2022. Olšanská was built in 1947. Olšany, a village located where the road now is, was built in 1306. It was named after ‘olše’, the alder tree. It’s hard to believe now, but there were several ponds and a stream here. The manors here had various owners, before…
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