Hradec Králové
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Prague 4, day 176: Sitteho
Sitteho was built in 1955. This is one of those cases where I’d like my (brief) research to tie in with itself a little bit better. The Pražský uličník – AKA my usual first port of all – says that Jindřich Sitte was the progressive headmaster of a school in Braník. It doesn’t say which Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 87: Hradeckých
Hradeckých was built in 1931. This one can be explained by pointing to a few previous stories. Hradečtí are people from Hradec Králové, which, with 94,000 inhabitants, is Czechia’s eighth-largest city, and has a street named after it in Prague 3: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/06/24/prague-3-day-176-hradecka/. By association, Hradečtí are also soldiers from Hradec Králové, and, near here, there Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 176: Hradecká
Originally published on Twitter on 16 October 2022. I’m really rubbish at transferring these to the website so far. Hradecká was built in 1908. Hradec Králové (German: Königgrätz), population 91,000, literally translates as ‘Queen’s Castle’. It’s the capital of the eponymous region (Královéhradecký kraj in Czech, so… eponymous-ish), in north-East Bohemia. Originally just called Hradec Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 158: Jičínská
Originally published on Twitter on 28 September 2022. Jičínská was built in 1910. Jičín is a town of 16,000 people in the Hradec Králové Region. Initially a royal town, Jan Lucemburský sold it to the Vartenberk family in 1337. It really started to expand in 1621, when it was purchased by the military leader Albrecht von Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 107: Orebitská
Originally published on Twitter on 8 August 2022. Orebitská was built in 1885. The Orebites (Orebité) were a radical branch of the Hussites, named after a procession that they took part in on Mount Oreb, which is located in Třebechovice. Oreb itself was named after Horeb, the mountain at which Moses received the Ten Commandments. Continue reading
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Prague 3, day 68: Ambrožova
Originally published on Twitter on 30 June 2022. Ambrožova was built in 1932. Ambrož of Hradec, or Ambrož Hradecký, was pastor of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Hradec Králové, until he was banished from the town in 1419 for his Hussite beliefs. In 1420, he founded the Orebites, the Hussites’ followers in Eastern Continue reading
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