What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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Category: Krč
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Bartákova was named in 1952. Miloslav Barták was born in Pisnice (nowadays in Prague 12, south of here) in 1906. He worked as a teacher and lived on Neveklovská, which is coming up in a few days. On 31 December 1941, Barták was tortured to death at Mauthausen, a concentration camp about 20 kilometres east…
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Horáčkova was most likely built in the 1930s. Until 1952, it was named U družstev after the housing cooperatives (družstva) that built the surrounding residential buildings. Vlastimil Horáček was born in 1927. At the time of the Prague Uprising, he was a student at a technical school. On 7 May 1945, Vlastimil was killed during…
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Za Zelenou liškou was built in 1935. Some time before 1720, an inn was built, south of Pankrác (then a village) and near the road that led from Prague to České Budějovice. It had a green fox – a zelená liška – painted on its gable. The fox then gave its name to the inn,…
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Senožatská was built in 1968. Senožaty (German: Heumahd) is another village in the Vysočina Region, located about ten kilometres from Humpolec. It was probably founded by Želiv Monastery (yes, also nearby) around 1300, and the earliest written mention we have is from 1352. In 1678, an abbott called Strobl, together with an apothecary from Jihlava…
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Dudínská was built in 1941. Dudín is a village near Humpolec (which will probably be the subject of tomorrow’s post) in the Vysočina Region. It has a population of 198. The oldest written mention we have is from 1226; the name means that it belonged to someone named Duda, a surname in several Slavic languages,…
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Stallichova was named in 1952, but built before then. Antonín Stallich was born in Vinohrady in 1887. In 1921, he married Anna Hronová, the younger sister of Antonín Hron, a World War I veteran who was active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and ultimately died of exhaustion at Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Antonín (Stallich)…
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Herálecká IV was built in the 1960s. Herálecká IV obviously has its name for the same reason as the other three Herálecké: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/03/prague-4-day-349-heralecka-i/. So, I’m going to complete the series I’ve been doing these last few days where I tell the story of the Prague Uprising, day by day. Today, we’re on May 9. The…
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Herálecká III was built in the 1960s. Is it a bit tacky to announce that this is my 1,000th street post? Yes? Oh well. As promised on yesterday’s post (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/04/prague-4-day-350-heralecka-ii/), I’m going to continue with the story of the Prague Uprising, this time covering 8 May 1945. The day started with an announcement from Moscow…
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Herálecká was built in the 1960s. Herálecká II follows on from Herálecká I, which we discussed yesterday (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/03/prague-4-day-349-heralecka-i/). Cue me thinking what to write about instead, but actually working that out almost at once. Krč suffered a lot during the Prague Uprising. It is right next to a street named after both the Uprising’s first…
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Herálecká I (which was lacking the Roman numeral at that time) was built in 1941. Herálec is a village of about 1,200 people in the Vysočina Region, about 12 kilometres southwest of Havlíčkův Brod (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/12/26/prague-3-day-122-havlickovo-namesti/ to learn about the Havlíček part). The earliest written mention that we know of is from a Papal document…
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Obětí 6. května was built in 1941. The Prague Uprising, an attempt by the Czech resistance to liberate Prague from six years of occupation, broke out on 5 May 1945. You can read about its first day on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/. On the night of the 5th and 6th of May, almost 1,600 barricades were erected in…
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Pacovská was built in 1941. Pacov is a town of about 4,700 inhabitants in Vysočina Region, 17 kilometres northwest of Pelhřimov. It flourished during the 1400s and the 1500s, gaining a coat of arms in 1519 and being designated a manor town in 1597. It eventually became the property of the Discalced Carmelites (find out…
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Olbrachtova was built in 1962. Welcome to the Krč era! Karel Zeman (bear with me) was born in Semily, near Liberec, in 1882. His father, Antonín, was a lawyer who also wrote novels under the name of Antal Stašek (this will be relevant in a future post). Even while studying at the gymasium in Dvůr…
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Chýnovská was built in 1972. Chýnov is a town of 2,600 people in South Bohemia, eleven kilometres to the east of Tábor (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/06/prague-4-day-26-taborska/). Before the town existed, there was a hillfort of the same name, associated with the Slavník dynasty (circa 981) if we believe Kosmas and his Chroncicle (circa over 120 years later). It…
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Durychova was built in 1976. Until 1995, the street was called Dolejšího, after Vojtěch Dolejší (1903-1972), a Communist journalist who worked for Rudé právo, among other publications, and was chairman of the Czechoslovak Union of Journalists from 1957 to 1963. Jaroslav Durych was born in Hradec Králové (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/06/24/prague-3-day-176-hradecka/). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine…
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Sulická was built before 1925; it was part of Libušská (not covered yet) until 1975. Sulice is a village in present-day Prague-East District. The earliest mention of it that we know of is from 1282. A description from 1898 said Sulice was ‘fanned by coniferous forest’, used to have a fortress, and had a population…
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Štúrova was built in 1969. Ľudovít Velislav Štúr was born in Uhrovec, a village near Trenčín, Slovakia, in 1815. His father, Samuel, had moved from Trenčín to take up a position as a teacher. Originally educated by his father, Ľudovít moved to Ráb (present-day Győr, Hungary) in 1827 to study at the gymnasium. A Slovak-born…
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Zálesí was built in 1925. Zalesí is behind (za) a forest (les). If you want to know what to call that forest, you’re kind of spoiled for choice: you can call it Kunratický les (colloquially: Kunraťák), Krčský les (colloquially: Krčák) or, in its northwest, Michelský les. As we’ll be going through Krč, Michle and Kunratice…
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Ke Krči was built in 1935. Ke Krči leads (to an extent) towards Krč, a district with about 27,300 inhabitants (about twice as many as either Braník or Podolí). It also has about 135 streets and is in Prague 4, hence my relative silence about the area for now.
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U Ryšánky was built in 1935. Until 1957, U Ryšánky was part of Na usedlosti (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/11/05/prague-4-day-220-na-usedlosti/). For the story of Ryšánka, see yesterday’s post: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/11/10/prague-4-day-225-k-rysance/. Ryšánka has also given its name to the surrounding area. The number 13 tram ran round here from 1938 to 1970, when it was closed, as the red line of…
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