Praha 4
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Prague 4, day 114: Na Topolce
Na Topolce was built in 1925. Once upon a time, there was a vineyard around here. It was called Topolka. According to legend, water from the spring here was used to serve Vyšehrad (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/). At some point, the local well also became known as Topolka; there are rumours that Libuše used drink from it (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/23/prague-2-day-93-libusina/), Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 113: Na dolinách
Na dolinách was built in 1922. And look at that – we’re out of Nusle and in Podolí! Took some time. ‘Na dolinách’ translates as ‘In the valleys’, and was the name of a settlement around here, founded no later than 1840. I don’t have further info on Na dolinách, but I do now have Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 112: Dačického
Dačického was built in 1900, or earlier. Mikuláš Daczický z Heslowa was born into a burgher family in Kutná Hora in 1555. He was educated at the Kladruby Monastery near Tachov. When Daczický was fifteen, his father died; he returned to Kutná Hora and lived off his inheritance. This was a period of drinking in wineries Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 111: Pod Děkankou
Pod Děkankou was built in 1935. To find out why this area was called Děkanka (which this street is ‘under’), see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/03/prague-4-day-107-dekanska-vinice-i/. To find out about the residential area called Na Děkance which existed for about 40 years in the 20th century, see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/05/prague-4-day-109-u-dekanky/. In line with other similar ’emergency colonies’ set up in Prague Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 110: Kischova
Kischova was built in 1900. It was originally named Třebízského, after the historical novelist Václav Beneš Třebízský, who still has a street named after him in Vinohrady: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/01/27/prague-2-day-17-trebizskeho/. Egon Erwin Kisch was born into a Jewish family in 1885, and grew up on Melantrichova in Prague’s Old Town, where his father, a cloth merchant, ran Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 109: U Děkanky
U Děkanky was built in 1988. To find out why we’re talking about deans and vineyards, take a look at https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/03/prague-4-day-107-dekanska-vinice-i/. Děkanka is also the name of the athletics stadium that’s located round here: https://iscus.cz/web/pasport/6229. In the 1920s, this area also became the location of an emergency colony, ie an area of makeshift housing, created Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 108: Děkanská vinice II
Děkanská vinice II was built in 1941. It will surprise precisely nobody that there’s not much I can say about Děkanská vinice II that wasn’t said about Děkanská vinice I (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/06/03/prague-4-day-107-dekanska-vinice-i/). Although I’m mildly amused that, on Mapy dot com (formerly CZ), Děkanská vinice II gets a user rating of 5.0, while poor old Děkanská Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 107: Děkanská vinice I
Děkanská vinice I was built in 1941. Let’s start by reminding ourselves that we’re not far from Vyšehrad, which has a more than significant place in Czech history (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-118-vysehradska/, and maybe have a look round https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/category/vysehrad/ for more). Around the year 1070, the Vyšehrad Chapter / Vyšehradská kapitula was founded, a ‘chapter’ being an assembly Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 106: Plamínkové
Plamínkové was built in 1968. Františka Plamínková was born in Prague in 1875, qualifying as a teacher in 1895 (astounding fact, at least to me: at that time, female teachers were required to be celibate). She taught until 1924. In 1903, she founded the Czech Women’s Club; two years later, she founded the Committee for Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 105: Kotorská
Kotorská was built in 1968. Kotor, population 13,347, is a town on the coast of Montenegro, located in the bay of the same name. I went in 2006, and again in 2019, so I’m going to populate this one with various pictures. Kotor was settled in Ancient Roman times, when it was part of the Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 103: Milevská
Milevská was built in 1962. Milevsko is a town of 8,000 people in South Bohemia, located 22 kilometres from both Písek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/03/19/prague-3-day-175-pisecka/) and Tábor (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/06/prague-4-day-26-taborska/). The earliest written mention of it is from 1184, which is three years before Jiřího z Milevska, a nobleman, arranged for a monastery to be built in the vicinity. As Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 102: Na strži
A ‘strž’ (feminine) is a ravine, or a gully; its synonym, ‘rokle’, is more commonly used. In English, a ravine is typically larger than a gulley, but smaller than a valley. In any case, there was originally a ravine around here. At least as far back as 1841, a road was here which led from Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 101: V Občanském domově
V Občanském domově was built in 1934. Looking forward to finding out about this grand-sounding Občanský domov (Citizen’s Home, among various potential translations)? Wondering if we’re about to discover Nusle’s answer to Municipal House (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/10/prague-1-day-182-u-obecniho-domu/)? Glad we’ve escaped that multi-week period where a lot of nearby streets were named after the companies that built the Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 100: Lomnického
Lomnického was built in 1900. Šimon Lomnický was born into a poor family in Lomnice nad Lužnicí in 1552, but, thanks to Vilém z Rožmberka, a noble and one-time treasurer of Bohemia, he was able to have an education. He wrote a series of books about the seven deadly sins and their moral impact, including Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 99: Na Klikovce
Na Klikovce was built in 1937. Klikovka was a homestead that existed round here, near St Pancras’ Church (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/04/25/prague-4-day-84-na-pankraci/ for a bit more on that). A map of Nusle from 1914 indicates that, by that time, it was gone. I got excited a minute ago, because I thought I’d found a lot more information Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 98: Sinkulova
Sinkulova was built in 1892. It was initially called Krušinova, after Hynek Krušina z Lichtenburka, a noble who first fought on the Hussite side in the 1400s, then on the side of the Catholics. Having been lengthened by taking over another street in the 1930s, the street has had its present name since 1948. Václav Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 97: Marie Cibulkové
Marie Cibulkové was built in 1900. Until 1940, and again from 1945 to 1947, the street was called Libušina, as nearby https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/23/prague-2-day-93-libusina/ still is. Marie Cibulková was born as Marie Grasserová in 1888. In 1920, she became a leader of the Pankrác Sokol (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/08/26/prague-2-day-114-sokolska/), as well as a representative of the Sokols at the Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 96: Mikuláše z Husi
Mikuláše z Husi was built in 1906. Until 1940, and again from 1945 to 1947, the street was known as Husova – as is a street in Prague 1: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/05/prague-1-day-169-husova/. Mikuláš z Pístného was born around 1375, and the earliest written reference we have to him is from 1389. In 1406, King Václav/Wenceslas IV made Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 95: U Jedličkova ústavu
U Jedličkova ústavu was built in the 1930s, but not named until 1957. Rudolf Jedlička was born in Lysá nad Labem in 1869; his father had previously served as a doctor in present-day Slovenia, and his mother was the daughter of a mayor of Vyšehrad. He studied medicine in Prague, graduating in 1895, which was Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 94: Na Bučance
Na Bučance was built in 1935. Josef Ignác Franz Buček was born in Příbor, then known as Freiberg, in 1741. He studied philosophy in Olomouc and Vienna, later becoming a professor of economic sciences at the University of Prague. Around the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, he built a farmstead round here, with Continue reading
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