What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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Category: Kunratice
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Vídeňská was named in 1978. Until 1978, this was part of Budějovická (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/26/prague-4-day-368-budejovicka/), but it got renamed because Czechoslovakia and Austria tentatively started to work on their relationship that year. And because Vídeň is Vienna (Wien in German). Some believe that the name comes from the Celtic *Vedunia, meaning ‘forest stream’, which may have given…
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Novohrádecká was built in 1935. In 1411, King Václav IV (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/10/prague-1-day-183-kralodvorska/) ordered the construction of a castle here in Kunratice Forest. It must have been constructed pretty quickly, especially by 21st-century Prague standards, as there’s a record of his staying there in 1412. But it also seems he liked it so much there that he…
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Kunratická was built in 1927. We know of a text from 1287 which refers to a local settlement called ‘Chunratitz’, the name being derived from Kunrat/Konrad. By 1336, it was known as Kunratice, and was owned by a servant of John of Luxembourg (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/02/26/prague-3-day-153-lucemburska/). In 1407, King Wenceslas IV purchased the village; in 1421, King…
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Jalodvorská was built in 1920. Until 1935, the street was called Moskevská, after Moscow. Its current name harks back to the presumably underperforming farms that were once round here: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/09/21/prague-4-day-450-pod-jalovym-dvorem/. For those keeping count (nobody is keeping count), there are ten streets to go before we move on to Michle. And all of Michle and…
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Pod Krčským lesem was built in 1941. You will see a big chunk of forest on the map above. Thing is, people can’t quite agree what to call it. Generally, the north-western section is known as Michelský les (Michle Forest), and Michle is where we’ll be going once I’m finished with Krč in approximately one…
