What's in a Prague street name
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Category: Prague 4
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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,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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 –…
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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…
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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/)…
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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…
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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…
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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/.
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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…
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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:…
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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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V pláni was built in 1930. A ‘pláň’ is not too different to its English translation – a plain – and this street is on one.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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Židlického was built in 1986. Vlasta Židlický was a member of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, and, during WW2, was a member of the illegal Union of Friends of the Soviet Union (Svazu přátel Sovětského svazu). Due to his opposition to the Nazi occupation, he was executed on 6 February 1944.
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U koupadel was built in 1935. ‘Koupadla’ are ‘baths’, as in the outdoor ones you would go to swim in, rather than the indoor ones that you want to lie in for hours on end after having a bit of a day of it at work (I’m in that place today). See also: ‘koupaliště’. And…
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