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).
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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…
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Originally published on X on 7 November 2023. A ‘most’ is a bridge. And this street connects a very, very well-known one with Malostranské náměstí (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/08/prague-1-day-38-malostranske-namesti/). This is the Malá Strana Bridge Tower at the end of the street, although your eye may be drawn more to the huge crowds. Mostecká connects Charles Bridge and…
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Originally published on Twitter on 6 January 2023. Šafaříkova was built around 1880. Pavol Jozef Šafárik was born in Kobeliarovo, near Košice, in 1795. The dramatic landscapes and Slovak folk culture here would impact him significantly. By the age of eight, he had allegedly read the entire Bible twice. He then went to school in…
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Originally published on Twitter on 30 December 2022. Jugoslávská was built in 1884. Until 1926, this was Karlova, after Karel IV, who will come up 1,926 times in the Prague 1 series. It was named Jugoslávská along with all the other Allied streets in 1926, although, under the Nazi occupation, it was called Priennova. Günther…
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Originally published on Twitter on 16 December 2022. Bělehradská was built in the 19th century. Until 1875, this was the Linecká silnice – the highway to Linz in Austria; it then became the Nuselská silnice – the highway to a somewhat nearer place, Nusle, until 1880. Then, from 1880 until the Great Geographical Renaming Funday…
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Originally published on Twitter on 15 June 2022. Schöfflerova was built in 1925. Josef Schöffler, also Schäffler, was a typographer and co-founder of the Cooperative for the Construction of Workers’ Flats and Family Houses in Žižkov (Družstvo pro stavbu dělnických bytů a rodiných domků na Žižkově). Sources say that Schöffler died in World War I,…
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