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Prague 1, day 131: Jindřišská
Originally published on X on 2 February 2024. ‘Jindřich’ is Henry, and the two don’t seem so different once you realise that one of the German versions of ‘Henry’ is ‘Heinrich’. And one famous German Henry was Henry II (973-1024), Holy Roman Emperor, also known as Saint Henry the Exuberant. He essentially incorporated Bohemia into Continue reading
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Prague 1, day 94: Na Struze
Originally published on X on 23 December 2023. A strouha is a gutter or a drain – and, in the 14th century, the term was also attributed to the bay of the Vltava located here. It was also in the 14th century that we have the first written mention of a church here – St Continue reading
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Prague 1, day 66: Saská
Originally published on X on 11 November 2023. No, we’re not escaping Germany just yet, as we’re close to both https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/08/prague-1-day-58-u-luzickeho-seminare/ and https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/09/prague-1-day-65-misenska/. And saská is the adjective from Sasko, AKA Saxony. For those not living nearby, Saxony is the German state on the north-west border of the Czech Republic. You may have been to Continue reading
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Prague 1, day 19: Keplerova
Originally published on X on 13 September 2023. Johannes Kepler was born Weil der Stadt, the “Gateway to the Black Forest”, in 1571, and was the son of a mercenary and a herbalist. Observing the Great Comet of 1577, and a lunar eclipse in 1580, he soon became fascinated by astronomy. The picture below is Continue reading
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Prague 2, day 28: Lužická
Originally published on Twitter on 4 December 2022. Lužická was built around 1900. From 1940 to 1945, this was Rankova, after Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886), a historian and proponent of modern, source-based history. But Lužice / Lusatia / Lausitz / Łużyce is a historical territory, nowadays split between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic. Slavic Continue reading
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Prague 2, day 26: Šumavská
First published on Twitter on 2 December 2022. Šumavská was built in 1889. Šumava is a mountain range covering the borderlands of the Czech Republic, Germany (Bavaria) and Austria. Many German speakers refer to it as the Böhmerwald – (the Bohemian Forest), although Bavarians, clearly wanting to take full credit, like to call it the Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 63: Rixdorfská
Originally published on Twitter on 25 June 2022. Rixdorfská was built in a very recent 2012. Český Rixdorf, or Böhmisch-Rixdorf, was a community founded by Protestant refugees from Bohemia in 1737. It’s located in what is now the Neukölln district of Berlin. Like other Bohemian Protestants, these exiles left the country as they were being Continue reading
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