What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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Category: Krč
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Antala Staška was built in 1935. Until 1952, it was called U krčské vodárny II, which we’ll get onto in an imminent-ish post. Antonín Zeman was born in Stanový, a village near Jablonec, in 1843, as the eldest of ten children. He went to school in Jičín (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/02/26/prague-3-day-158-jicinska/) and Kraków. He then studied law in…
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Halasova was built in 1962. František Halas was born in Brno-Husovice in 1901. His parents were textile workers; his father had been imprisoned for his communist beliefs, and his mother died in 1908. These experiences would greatly influence his career as a poet. When WW1 started, Halas’s father was called up to the front, where…
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U strže was built before 1925 (i.e. today is a brief interlude from the artistically-minded streets built in 1962 or 1965). Until 1945, the street was called ‘Rovinná’ due to its location in a plain (rovina). A ‘strž’ is a ravine, and I’m going to point you to the much longer and much better-known Na…
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Radova was built in 1965. Vlastimil Rada was born in České Budějovice (recently covered on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/26/prague-4-day-368-budejovicka/) in 1895, but lived in Prague from 1904. From 1908 to 1912, as well as going to regular school, he attended landscape painting classes given by Václav Jansa, and then studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts, graduating…
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Tilschové was built in 1962. Anna Maria Tilschová was born in Prague in 1873. Her father was a doctor of law; her mother was the daughter of Ferdinand Urbánek (1812-87), a sugar entrepreneur and organiser of cultural life in Bohemia and Moravia. In 1895, Anna Maria married her cousin, Emanuel Tilsch, also a lawyer; they…
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Blažíčkova was built in 1962. They were busy round here in 1962. Oldřich Blažíček was born in Slavkovice in 1887. Along with his brother, he trained as a house painter, and then moved to Prague to develop his career. Eventually, he got a place at the School of Applied Arts (UPŠ), eventually transferring to and…
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Kremličkova was built in 1962. Rudolf Kremlička was born in Kolín in 1886, and studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. Interested in impressionism, he became all the more so after visiting Paris, and the painter Édouard Manet became his role model. He became one of the leading members of Tvrdošíjní (‘The Stubborn…
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Fillova was built in 1962. Emil Filla was born in Chropyně, near Kroměříž, in 1882, and grew up in Brno. After graduating, he got a job as a clerk at an insurance company, but soon decided office life wasn’t for him and headed for Prague. He started studying monumental painting at the Academy of Fine…
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Rabasova was built in 1962. Václav Rabas was born in Krušovice (near Rakovník, and as in the beer) in 1885. After completing his military service, he started studying at Prague’s Academy of Fine Arts. This all went well enough until 1909, when a critical article he wrote about the Academy was published. Rabas’s studies were…
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Poláčkova was built in 1962. Karel Poláček was born in Rychnov nad Kněžnou in 1892; his father was a Jewish merchant. He also went to school there, but was expelled from grammar school for behaving badly and getting poor grades. Eventually, he ended up finishing his schooling on Truhlářská (AKA one of the streets that…
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Budějovická was given its named in 1925, having formerly been part of the road from Prague to… well, read on. In the early 1200s, a settlement was founded in South Bohemia, and was named Budivojovice, named after Budivoje ze Železnice, a courtier of King Přemysl Otakar I, and the most important judge in Bohemia. The…
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Květnových bojů was built in 1952. ‘Květnových bojů’ translates as (street) ‘of the May battles’, and commemorates the fact that Krč had a particularly hard time of it during the Prague Uprising of 1945. There have been a good few posts about the Prague Uprising, especially recently; https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/category/prague-uprising/ should guide you to all of them.
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Bystřická was built in 1941. However, until 1960, it was part of Humpolecká (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/20/prague-4-day-362-humpolecka/). Bystřice is a town of 4,700 people in Central Bohemia, about six kilometres south of Benešov. The earliest written mention that we know of is from about 1350. It developed due to its location on a trade route. In 1471, George…
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Krchlebská was built in 1941. Its second street sign, meanwhile, is one I won’t forget in a hurry. Krchleby is a village in Central Bohemia, six kilometres north of Nymburk, and about a sixty-kilometre drive to the northeast from Prague. The origins of Krchleby’s name have never quite been agreed on. ‘Krch’ means ‘left’ in…
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Neveklovská was built in 1941. Neveklov is a town of 2,800 people in Central Bohemia, about 12 km east of Benešov and, therefore, about 30 km north of Prague. The earliest written mention we know of dates from 1285, and we assume it was once the court of somebody called Nevykl or similar. That written…
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Jankovská was built in 1941. Jankov is a village in South Bohemia, about 13 kilometres of České Budějovice. It has a population of about 390. The earliest mention we know of is in a Land Register from 1379; Its name indicates that it was once the estate of someone called Janek. In 1964, a neighbouring…
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Humpolecká was built in 1941, and this is one case where highlighting roads in red doesn’t work very well. Humpolec is a town in the Vysočina Region, about 23 km northwest of Jihlava, with approximately 12,000 residents. The first verified written mention is from 1233, when the Order of Teutonic Knights sold some local property…
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U nových domů III was built in 1935. This is the third – and, thankfully, final – part of the New Houses trilogy which started on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/17/prague-4-day-359-u-novych-domu-i/. That longer red line on the map above indicates that, yes, the C line of the metro runs underground near here; the ‘no crossing here’ signs a bit…
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U nových domů II was built in 1935. New buildings, old post: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/17/prague-4-day-359-u-novych-domu-i/.
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U nových domů I was built in 1935. ‘Nové domy’ are ‘new buildings’ or ‘new houses’. In 1935, the houses around here were indeed new – they had been built by the Ústřední sociální pojišťovna / Central Social Insurance Agency. That ‘I’ in the name is a sign that I’m going to get quite an…
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