What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

Prague 4

  • Prague 4, day 340: U Nového dvora

    U Nového dvora was built in 1927. Repetition time: this one is by the ‘new court’ that a much longer road around the corner is also named after: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/11/prague-4-day-276-novodvorska/. Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 339: Na Borovém

    Na Borovém was built in 1930. A ‘bor’ is a pine; ‘borový’ is therefore the adjective, and a ‘borový les’ is a pine forest. There was once one round here, eventually replaced by the Krč housing estate. The forest was generally known as ‘Borový’ (no les), hence the street name. Obviously, that forest is long… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 338: U družstva Tempo

    U družstva Tempo was built in 1935. A ‘družstvo’ is a cooperative, or a housing cooperation. Those of you who’ve been following the series for a while may remember https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/28/prague-4-day-60-druzstevni-ochoz/, where I spoke about how the street was named after said cooperatives (who built its houses). There were then various streets named after specific cooperatives,… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 337: Slepá II

    Slepá II was built in 1935. This is, predictably, the sequel to yesterday’s https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/18/prague-4-day-336-slepa-i/. So here’s some vocabulary to compensate. The ‘slepé střevo’ is the blind gut, or the caecum, which is joined to the appendix. If you can hear a sound right now, it’s me realising it’s taken me until 2026 to realise why… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 336: Slepá I

    Slepá I was built in 1935. ‘Slepá’ most commonly translates as ‘blind’ (for those wondering, ‘slepá bába’ is ‘blind man’s buff’. Things that are not part of the animal kingdom that can be blind include, of course, alleys. Therefore, a ‘slepá ulice’, such as this one, is a ‘blind alley’, a ‘dead end’ or a… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 335: V zahradní čtvrti

    V zahradní čtvrti was built in 1935. This district (‘čtvrť) has a lot of nice houses. Although I wouldn’t particularly recommend performing internet searches to see if you can afford them. These nice houses are often accompanied by nice gardens (‘zahrady’). Hence this street being ‘in the garden district’. Looking for this info has led to me… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 334: Toušeňská

    Toušeňská was built in 1980. Lázně Toušeň is a town in the current-day Prague East district, with a population of 1,500. The oldest gold object ever found in Central Europe – an earring from the Řivnáč culture, dating from about BCE 3,000 – was discovered here. Its name means ‘Toušen’s hillfort’, and it’s feminine –… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 333: K Novému dvoru

    K Novému dvoru was built in 1925. K Novému dvoru is named after the former farmstead Nový dvůr (New Court), as is the nearby main road, Novodvorská (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/11/prague-4-day-276-novodvorska/). From 1925 to 1930, the street was called Mikoláše Aleše, after one of the greatest Czech painters; you can learn more about him on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/22/prague-1-day-210-alsovo-nabrezi-ales-embankment/ (which is… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 332: Na příčce

    Na příčce was built in 1938. A ‘příčka’ is… well, all kinds of things. Take your pick from ‘crossbar’, ‘rung’, spoke’, ‘dividing wall’, ‘partition’, or ‘crosspiece’, and feel free to add your own. In this case, the street was apparently meant to be a dividing line between Na Borovém (now called Štúrova; see on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/05/prague-4-day-325-sturova/)… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 331: Vzdušná

    Vzdušná was built in 1941 (I think). There’s greenery around here, and there no doubt used to be a lot more of it, especially as none of these streets I’ve been covering lately seem to have sprung up earlier than Czechoslovakia did. This particular street was built on a plateau near the forest. One nice… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 330: Dobřejovická

    Dobřejovická was buiilt in 1980. Dobřejovice is a village in Prague-East, about 18 km south-east of the centre of the city. The earliest extant information of it in writing is from 1309. It has about 1,300 inhabitants and a nice chateau, although, given it’s privately owned, you’re unlikely to be able to visit it unless… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 329: Na rovinách

    Na rovinách was built in 1925. It’s flat round here. And the street is, as its name says, on a plain (or, as it’s in the plural, ‘plains’). We’ve been in very similar name territory in Prague 4 already: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/09/09/prague-4-day-167-v-rovinach/. Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 328: Na Větrově

    Na Větrově was built in 1925. Větrov, deriving from ‘vítr’ (wind), is a name popularly given to hills which are bare of vegetation and quite, yes, windy. This area was once called Větrov for that reason. If you think we’ve been on this topic before, we have – see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/25/prague-2-day-113-apolinarska/ for a hill in the… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 327: U lesa

    U lesa was built in 1925. We’re back on the street names that represent the surroundings – ‘U lesa’ is quite literally by a forest, namely Velký háj, which got a bit of attention on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/04/prague-4-day-270-nad-lesnim-divadlem/. This piece – published yesterday – indicates that the intended revival of the forest theatre is progressing quite nicely:… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 326: Sulická

    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… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 325: Štúrova

    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… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 324: V pláni

    V pláni was built in 1930. A ‘pláň’ is not too different to its English translation – a plain – and this street is on one. Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 323: Mezilesní

    Mezilesní was built in 1931. We’re between (mezi) two forests (lesy) here. The first one is Kunratický les or Michelský les, as described on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/12/20/prague-4-day-265-zalesi/ (which is ‘behind’ the forest, whatever you want to call it). The second is the grove in the valley of Kunratický potok, which there are some nice pictures of on… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 322: U vodotoku

    U vodotoku was built in 1935. U Vodotoku (which we’d translate as something like ‘watercourse’) is a pond on the Zátišský stream, created in the 1960s at the same time as many surrounding housing estates. Given the dates, we have to assume that the street was named after the various waterways round here, and the… Continue reading

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  • Prague 4, day 321: Nad koupadly

    Nad koupadly was built in 1935. We’ve been near the bathing area round here: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/02/22/prague-4-day-317-u-lazni/. We’ve then been near it again: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/02/24/prague-4-day-319-u-koupadel/. And now we’re above it. Remind me to take some more pictures round here in the summer, it’s probably quite a different experience. Continue reading

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