What's in a Prague street name
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Category: Krč
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Nad svahem was built in the early 1980s. A ‘svah’ is a slope or a hillside, and this street is located above one. Somehow, this is our fourth svah-based street in Prague 4 (and counting): we started with https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/21/prague-4-day-53-svazna/ in Nusle. And then we were on a slope in Podolí, (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/07/01/prague-4-day-133-ve-svahu/) and then under one…
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Před nádražím was built in 1977. Yes, Krč has a train station. If you haven’t been through the station, that’s not too much of a surprise – only one route, the one to/from Dobříš, runs though it. I’ll tell the story of the station later, as: a) there’s another street named after it; b) I’ve…
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Mezi sklady was built in 1988. A ‘sklad’ is a warehouse, a storehouse, a storeroom, etc. Also, if you have something ‘v skladě’, you’ve got it in stock. And the street is indeed located between/among warehouses. One of which suffered significant fire damage two summers ago: https://prazsky.denik.cz/krimi/praha-pozar-hasici-mezi-sklady-ohen/.
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V polích was built in 1968. Back from what I hope is my final trip this summer (they’ve all been marvellous, but a lot at once). Anyway, a ‘pole’ is a field, and the street is located ‘in fields’ (or, more accurately, on top of where they once were).
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Rozárčina was built in 1947. Until 1952, it was called U krčské vodárny V, on which see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/24/prague-4-day-386-u-krcske-vodarny/. For it’s current name, we’re still on Antal Stašek’s O ševci Matoušovi a jeho přátelích (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/13/prague-4-day-381-sevce-matouse/). Rozárka is Růza Kyklová, the local girl whom the lead character, Matouš, falls in love with. She is also the daughter of…
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Kykalova was built in 1973. Remember how we talked about the novelist Antal Stašek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/07/prague-4-day-378-antala-staska/)? Or about his novel, O ševci Matoušovi a jeho přátelích (About the Shoemaker Matouš and His Friends; https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/13/prague-4-day-381-sevce-matouse/)? Well, Jakub Kykal is a cottager in that novel – and the lead character, Matouš, falls in love with Kykal’s daughter Růza, although…
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Přechodní was named in 1938. A ‘přechod’ is a crossing, as in ‘hraniční přechod’ (border crossing) or ‘přechod pro chodce’ (pedestrian crossing). It can also be translated as ‘transition’ or ‘changeover’. Some readers will be most familiar with the concept of having to apply for ‘přechodný pobyt’ – temporary residence – in ČR. While some…
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Na sponě was built in or before 1941. ‘Spona’ can be translated as clip, fastener, buckle, and so on. It derives from the verb ‘spínat/sepnout’, which translates as ‘to fasten’ or ‘to clip (together)’. So, a ‘tie clip’ would be a ‘spona do kravaty’. In grammar, a ‘spona’ would be a ‘copula’, i.e. a word linking…
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Postranní was built in 1941. Until 1947, it was called Na odbočce, due to its location (it turns off from Dolnokrčská (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/07/18/prague-4-day-406-dolnokrcska/); an ‘odbočka’ is a diversion, a turn, a digression, and so on. Meanwhile, ‘postranní’ is an adjective meaning ‘side’ (as in ‘postranní ulička’ – a ‘side street’). You sort of wonder why they…
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Pod vrstevnicí was built in 1979. Until 1990, it shared a name with https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/07/27/prague-4-day-409-na-vrstevnici/, and is, of course, named after the same ‘vrstevnice’ / contour line. There are several types of contour line. A basic one (základní vrstevnice) connects point which are the same height above sea level. Also, contour lines are drawn at basic…
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Na staré cestě was built in 1930. Until 1935, it was called Trenčínská, after Trenčín, Slovakia’s eighth-largest city (population 55,000), located near Czech border – and, along with Oulu, Finland, European Capital of Culture in 2026. We’re not too far from Nová cesta (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/06/10/prague-4-day-399-nova-cesta/), which means ‘New Road’. And the existence of a new road…
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Na vrstevnici was built in 1935. A ‘vrstevnice’ is a line on a map that connects two places of equal elevation, helping them to show the shape and height of the terrain. In other words, a contour line. And the street is named because it’s located ‘on’ one.
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Nad obcí II was built in 1941. Nad obcí I (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/07/17/prague-4-day-405-nad-obci-i/) is named after Lower Krč (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/07/18/prague-4-day-406-dolnokrcska/). So it probably won’t come as a surprise that Nad obcí II is too. I don’t like harking back to Prague’s Nazi occupation, but I can’t help but be intrigued by the fact that, in that time, this…
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Nad Ryšánkou was built in 2000. This excites me more than it should – I’ve covered 1,055 streets so far (blimey), without coming across a single one built in the period from 1999 to 2006. Anyway, this one harks back to a street which is nearby, but which we discussed way back in November 2025:…
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Dolnokrčská was built in or before 1920. The street is named after Dolní Krč – or Lower Krč, because, as discussed on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/05/30/prague-4-day-390-hornokrcska/, this was once A Tale of Two Krčes. The first written mention of Krč that we know of is from the 1200s; there is also a document from 1620 in which Dolní…
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Nad obcí I was built in 1935. An ‘obec’ is a ‘village’, a ‘parish’, or a ‘municipality’. The obec in question is (was) Lower Krč, or Dolní Krč, which we’ll discuss soon enough, because, yes, there’s a street named after it.
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Na staré vinici was built in 1935. A ‘vinice’ is a vineyard or a vinery. There was once one round here (actually, there were probably several, and you can still imagine them when you walk around the area). Hence the street being named after ‘the old vineyard’. In the 1920s, Prague’s population was growing too…
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We don’t know exactly when Na Dvorcích was built, but we do know that it existed by 1937. Apparently, the area around here was once known as Dvorce. We’ve already seen one of those (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/07/25/prague-4-day-155-dvorecke-namesti/). While it’s in Prague 4, it’s not that near, and would have been even more ‘not that near’ before all…
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Now, where the heck was I? Oh, OK. Návršní was built in 1920. Location-based name time: ‘navrch’ is an adverb, meaning something is ‘on top’. Usually, an adverb derives from an adjective, but this seems to be the reverse – ‘navršní’ is the adjective, and the street is, yes, high up. I quite like the…
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Za pruhy was built in 1938. ‘Pruhy’ are ‘strips’, ‘bands’, or ‘lanes’. In this case, the street is named after the kind of strips that you will find in, or separating, individual fields. We’re not far from Braník here, and we’re next to a main road that is also named after a ‘pruh’: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/10/22/prague-4-day-206-zeleny-pruh/.
What's in a Prague street name 