What's in a Prague street name
Every street in Prague, one by one.
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I could talk about myself for ages, or I could point out that https://english.radio.cz/ed-ley-englishman-recording-stories-pragues-streets-one-one-8806941 is over two years old but still largely stands (other than the Twitter links).
Category: Prague Uprising
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Published on X on 2 and 3 April 2024 (there was a fair amount to say). Part 1: the history In 1338, John of Luxembourg (King of Bohemia from 1310 to 1346) gave the Old Town permission to build itself a town hall. This seemed like the perfect location, as a major market had existed…
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Originally published on Twitter on 8 January 2023. Rybalkova was built before 1884. Prior to the Nazi occupation, and again from 1945 to 1946, the street was called Jablonského, after Boleslav Jablonský (1813-81), poet and priest. During the Nazi occupation, it was known as Labská, after the river Labe (and as in ‘Ústí nad’), known…
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Originally published on Twitter on 13 November 2022. Na Smetance was built in 1889. Smetanka (translation: ‘Dandelion’) is a homestead and vineyard that used to lie in this spot. It’s old enough for it to be unclear when it was built. What we do know is that it housed a pub, and, from 1859, was…
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Originally published on Twitter on 29 September 2022. Novovysočanská was built in 1906. We’re at the ‘streets I didn’t realise were partially in Prague 3 / Žižkov’ stage of things. In my defence, there isn’t actually a single street sign in the Prague 3 part of Novovysočanská, and this pic is the nearest I can…
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Originally published on Twitter on 21 July 2022. Náměstí Barikád was built in 1904, bearing its current name (Barricade Square) since 1952. Until 1952, this was Perštýnovo náměstí, named after the Pernštejn family, a distinguished noble family from south-western Moravia. Recent followers of these posts will be *stunned* to know that they were Hussites. The…
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Originally posted on Twitter on 6 May 2022. Pražačka was built in 1947. It’s named after *another* farmstead (and vineyard) that no longer exists. The origin of the name ‘Pražačka’ isn’t clear, but original maps list the name as ‘Brasatscha’ – so, surprisingly, the name probably doesn’t have anything to do with ‘Praha’. The vineyard…
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Starting off where it all began – this was originally posted on Twitter on 24 April 2022. Here begins a series in which I walk along the very long street immediately to the north of my flat and examine the names of the streets leading off it, one by one. We’ll start with the very…
What's in a Prague street name 