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Prague 4, day 353: Stallichova
Stallichova was named in 1952, but built before then. Antonín Stallich was born in Vinohrady in 1887. In 1921, he married Anna Hronová, the younger sister of Antonín Hron, a World War I veteran who was active in the anti-Nazi Resistance and ultimately died of exhaustion at Flossenbürg concentration camp in April 1945. Antonín (Stallich)… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 352: Herálecká IV
Herálecká IV was built in the 1960s. Herálecká IV obviously has its name for the same reason as the other three Herálecké: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/03/prague-4-day-349-heralecka-i/. So, I’m going to complete the series I’ve been doing these last few days where I tell the story of the Prague Uprising, day by day. Today, we’re on May 9. The… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 351: Herálecká III
Herálecká III was built in the 1960s. Is it a bit tacky to announce that this is my 1,000th street post? Yes? Oh well. As promised on yesterday’s post (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/04/prague-4-day-350-heralecka-ii/), I’m going to continue with the story of the Prague Uprising, this time covering 8 May 1945. The day started with an announcement from Moscow… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 350: Herálecká II
Herálecká was built in the 1960s. Herálecká II follows on from Herálecká I, which we discussed yesterday (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/03/prague-4-day-349-heralecka-i/). Cue me thinking what to write about instead, but actually working that out almost at once. Krč suffered a lot during the Prague Uprising. It is right next to a street named after both the Uprising’s first… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 348: Obětí 6. května
Obětí 6. května was built in 1941. The Prague Uprising, an attempt by the Czech resistance to liberate Prague from six years of occupation, broke out on 5 May 1945. You can read about its first day on https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/05/prague-4-day-25-5-kvetna-5-may/. On the night of the 5th and 6th of May, almost 1,600 barricades were erected in… Continue reading
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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… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 346: Olbrachtova
Olbrachtova was built in 1962. Welcome to the Krč era! Karel Zeman (bear with me) was born in Semily, near Liberec, in 1882. His father, Antonín, was a lawyer who also wrote novels under the name of Antal Stašek (this will be relevant in a future post). Even while studying at the gymasium in Dvůr… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 345: Mirotická
Mirotická was built in 1988. Mirotice is a town of 1,200 people which, like yesterday’s Čimelice (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/28/prague-4-day-344-cimelicka/), is in Písek District in South Bohemia. The earliest known written mention is from 1254, by which time it was already a royal town. Also in common with Čimelice, Mirotice was marked by events occurring in the final… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 344: Čimelická
Čimelická was built in 1988. Čimelice is a village of about 1,000 inhabitants in Písek District, about 25 kilometres south-east of Písek (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/03/19/prague-3-day-175-pisecka/) and about 87 km south of Prague. The earliest written mention we have is from the 1400s; it is literally the village of Čmel’s people, although we’re not sure who this Čmel… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 343: Chýnovská
Chýnovská was built in 1972. Chýnov is a town of 2,600 people in South Bohemia, eleven kilometres to the east of Tábor (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/02/06/prague-4-day-26-taborska/). Before the town existed, there was a hillfort of the same name, associated with the Slavník dynasty (circa 981) if we believe Kosmas and his Chroncicle (circa over 120 years later). It… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 342: Durychova
Durychova was built in 1976. Until 1995, the street was called Dolejšího, after Vojtěch Dolejší (1903-1972), a Communist journalist who worked for Rudé právo, among other publications, and was chairman of the Czechoslovak Union of Journalists from 1957 to 1963. Jaroslav Durych was born in Hradec Králové (https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/06/24/prague-3-day-176-hradecka/). He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 341: Růženínská
Růženínská was built in 1981. We start this story in Chocerady, a town of about 1,400 people, 27 kilometres southeast of Prague. Chocerady has five municipal parts; the second-largest of these is called Vlkovec (with 169 inhabitants, it’s a lot smaller than the largest, also called Chocerady, and which has 863 inhabitants). Vlkovec was once… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 340: U Nového dvora
U Nového dvora was built in 1927. Repetition time: this one is by the ‘new court’ that a much longer road around the corner is also named after: https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/01/11/prague-4-day-276-novodvorska/. Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 339: Na Borovém
Na Borovém was built in 1930. A ‘bor’ is a pine; ‘borový’ is therefore the adjective, and a ‘borový les’ is a pine forest. There was once one round here, eventually replaced by the Krč housing estate. The forest was generally known as ‘Borový’ (no les), hence the street name. Obviously, that forest is long… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 338: U družstva Tempo
U družstva Tempo was built in 1935. A ‘družstvo’ is a cooperative, or a housing cooperation. Those of you who’ve been following the series for a while may remember https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2025/03/28/prague-4-day-60-druzstevni-ochoz/, where I spoke about how the street was named after said cooperatives (who built its houses). There were then various streets named after specific cooperatives,… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 337: Slepá II
Slepá II was built in 1935. This is, predictably, the sequel to yesterday’s https://whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/03/18/prague-4-day-336-slepa-i/. So here’s some vocabulary to compensate. The ‘slepé střevo’ is the blind gut, or the caecum, which is joined to the appendix. If you can hear a sound right now, it’s me realising it’s taken me until 2026 to realise why… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 336: Slepá I
Slepá I was built in 1935. ‘Slepá’ most commonly translates as ‘blind’ (for those wondering, ‘slepá bába’ is ‘blind man’s buff’. Things that are not part of the animal kingdom that can be blind include, of course, alleys. Therefore, a ‘slepá ulice’, such as this one, is a ‘blind alley’, a ‘dead end’ or a… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 335: V zahradní čtvrti
V zahradní čtvrti was built in 1935. This district (‘čtvrť) has a lot of nice houses. Although I wouldn’t particularly recommend performing internet searches to see if you can afford them. These nice houses are often accompanied by nice gardens (‘zahrady’). Hence this street being ‘in the garden district’. Looking for this info has led to me… Continue reading
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Prague 4, day 334: Toušeňská
Toušeňská was built in 1980. Lázně Toušeň is a town in the current-day Prague East district, with a population of 1,500. The oldest gold object ever found in Central Europe – an earring from the Řivnáč culture, dating from about BCE 3,000 – was discovered here. Its name means ‘Toušen’s hillfort’, and it’s feminine –… Continue reading
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