What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

Category: Surveillance

  • Originally published on X on 22 December 2023. Mills operating here by the Vltava got their name from a former owner, Jan Šítka, who died in 1451. In 1495, a wooden water tower was built, but would be destroyed by a fire six years later. A replacement would also be burned down in 1588, after…

  • Originally published on Twitter on 27 November 2022. Čerchovská was built in 1896. Čerchov, 1,042 metres high, is the highest mountain in Český les (somewhat different English name: Upper Palatine Forest), as well as the 10th-highest in the country. It’s only two kilometres from the German border. In German, it’s called Schwarzkopf, and yes, I…