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: Hills
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Pod kopcem was built in 1938. Its name translates as ‘under the hill’, and the hill in question is the one above Braník train station (as today’s post is brief, here’s a link to a little bit more about that station: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/15/prague-4-day-260-pikovicka/).
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Originally published on X on 3 October 2023. A vršek is the upper part of something, or a small hill. And if you want to know you Jan was, take a quick look at day 33: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/08/prague-1-day-33-janska/. So this thread isn’t *too* brief, here’s one of the rare old-school German-language street signs you find round…
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Originally published on X on 20 February 2023. We don’t know when Horská was built, but it’s decidedly old. The first documented names for the street are Ztracená (Lost) and Na Ztracené vartě (At the lost guard-post), presumably because, back before multiple roads and public transport were a thing, this was quite a long way from…
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Originally published on Twitter on 24 July 2022. Na Parukářce was built in 1947. We explained Parukářka yesterday – see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/26/prague-3-day-91-pod-parukarkou/ – so today we can talk about people not quite agreeing what this area should be called. We know about Vrch svatého Kríže / Mount of the Holy Cross, named after a wooden cross…
What's in a Prague street name 