What's in a Prague street name

Every street in Prague, one by one.

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Category: Vysočina

  • Prague 4, day 373: Blažíčkova

    Blažíčkova was built in 1962. They were busy round here in 1962. Oldřich Blažíček was born in Slavkovice in 1887. Along with his brother, he trained as a house painter, and then moved to Prague to develop his career. Eventually, he got a place at the School of Applied Arts (UPŠ), eventually transferring to and…

  • Prague 4, day 362: Humpolecká

    Humpolecká was built in 1941, and this is one case where highlighting roads in red doesn’t work very well. Humpolec is a town in the Vysočina Region, about 23 km northwest of Jihlava, with approximately 12,000 residents. The first verified written mention is from 1233, when the Order of Teutonic Knights sold some local property…

  • Prague 4, day 355: Senožatská

    Senožatská was built in 1968. Senožaty (German: Heumahd) is another village in the Vysočina Region, located about ten kilometres from Humpolec. It was probably founded by Želiv Monastery (yes, also nearby) around 1300, and the earliest written mention we have is from 1352. In 1678, an abbott called Strobl, together with an apothecary from Jihlava…

  • Prague 4, day 354: Dudínská

    Dudínská was built in 1941. Dudín is a village near Humpolec (which will probably be the subject of tomorrow’s post) in the Vysočina Region. It has a population of 198. The oldest written mention we have is from 1226; the name means that it belonged to someone named Duda, a surname in several Slavic languages,…

  • Prague 4, day 349: Herálecká I

    Herálecká I (which was lacking the Roman numeral at that time) was built in 1941. Herálec is a village of about 1,200 people in the Vysočina Region, about 12 kilometres southwest of Havlíčkův Brod (see https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/12/26/prague-3-day-122-havlickovo-namesti/ to learn about the Havlíček part). The earliest written mention that we know of is from a Papal document…

  • Prague 4, day 347: Pacovská

    Pacovská was built in 1941. Pacov is a town of about 4,700 inhabitants in Vysočina Region, 17 kilometres northwest of Pelhřimov. It flourished during the 1400s and the 1500s, gaining a coat of arms in 1519 and being designated a manor town in 1597. It eventually became the property of the Discalced Carmelites (find out…

  • Prague 2, day 31: Sázavská

    Originally published on Twitter on 7 December 2022. Sázavská was built in 1889. Sázava is the name both of a river in the Vysočina and Central Bohemian regions, and of a town of 3,700 people on its banks, in the Benešov district. The proto-Slavic verb sázeti means something like ‘to depose a lot of sediment’.…

  • Prague 3, day 130: Přibyslavská

    Originally published on Twitter on 31 August 2022. Přibyslavská was built in 1898. Přibyslav is a town in the Havlíčkův Brod district, currrently with about 4,000 inhabitants. It was first mentioned in writing in 1257 (under the name of Priemezlaves). In the same century, the town became the second most important silver mining location in…

  • Prague 3, day 118: Štítného

    Originally published on Twitter on 19 August 2022. Štítného was built before 1875. Tomáš Štítný ze Štítného was born into the lower nobility at the  Štítná fortress (now part of Žirovnice, Vysočina Region) around 1333. He moved to Prague to study at the Art Faculty of Charles University, where he became acquainted with reform preachers…