7) These days, Neveklov offers fine views of the Vltava, as well as cultural monuments including the church of St. Havel, a rectory, a chapel from 1700, a synagogue and the Jewish cemetery.

6) In September 1942, Neveklov and its surrounding villages were evacuated so that the SS could set up ‘SS Training Area Bohemia’. Returning residents in 1945 found a town in disrepair, and with unexploded mines.

Prague 3, day 138: Kubelíkova Originally published on Twitter on 8 September 2022. Kubelíkova was built in 1885. Until 1930, this was Libušina, after Libuše, ancestor of the Přemyslid dynasty and of the Czechs. So the number of…

5) In May 1940, Neveklov was the location for the last ever concert by the violinist Jan Kubelík (whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2023/01/14/p...); he died later that year.

4) Neveklov was promoted to market town status in 1563; its subsequent history follows a familiar pattern for Bohemian towns (confiscated from Hussites and given to Catholics in the 1620s / badly damaged by fires in 1752, 1790 and 1814; ravaged by plague in 1772).

Prague 2, day 159: Na Zderaze Originally published on X on 18 April 2023. Na Zderaze was built in 1869 and replaced a square which had been there before that. Zderaz is the name of a settlement that used to stand here. Legend h…

3) The earliest written mention we know of dates from 1285, and we assume it was once the court of somebody called Nevykl or similar. That written mention concerns the sale of the settlement to the Zderaz Monastery in Prague’s New Town (whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/09/01/p...).

2) Neveklov is a town of 2,800 people in Central Bohemia, about 12 km east of Benešov and, therefore, about 30 km north of Prague.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 364: Neveklovská, built in 1941.

Holašovice – UNESCO, selské baroko, Stonehenge | 31. díl (repríza) – Jihočeské víkendy YouTube video by Jihočeské víkendy

5) However, rather than being repopulated after the German residents were removed, Holašovice remained uninhabited until 1990; eight years later, it became a UNESCO World Heritage site.
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4) In 1964, a neighbouring municipality, Holašovice, was annexed to Jankov; prior to 1945, Holašovice had been entirely German-speaking, whereas Jankov had been ethnically Czech.

3) Its name indicates that it was once the estate of someone called Janek.

2) Jankov is a village in South Bohemia, about 13 kilometres of České Budějovice. It has a population of about 390.

The earliest mention we know of is in a Land Register from 1379.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 363: Jankovská, built in 1941.

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 men…

15) Whoever named the streets around here clearly had a thing for Humpolec and its surroundings: whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/12/p... and whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/13/p... are both named after local settlements.

Ivan Jirous obituary Czech poet and artistic director of the dissident band the Plastic People of the Universe

14) Finally, Ivan Martin Jirous (1944-2011), known as Magor, was the artistic director of the Plastic People of the Universe: www.theguardian.com/music/2011/n....

13) While Anděla Kozáková-Jírová (1897-1986) was the first woman in Czechoslovakia to be awarded a university law degree (this picture is from the day of her graduation in 1922).

11) Anna Sychravová (born 1873) was one of the first women elected to the Czechoslovak Chamber of Deputies, where she served until her early death in 1925.

10) Continuing the transatlantic migrant theme, Josef Stránský (1872-1936) conducted the New York Philharmonic from 1911 to 1923.

9) But Humpolec really does quite well when it comes to people of note.

Aleš Hrdlička (1869-1943) became the first curator of physical anthropology of the Smithsonian Museum in 1904.

Prague 3, day 23: Jana Želivského Originally posted on Twitter on 16 May 2022. Jana Želivského was built in 1931. It was originally named Mladoňovicova, after Petr z Mladoňovic (died 1451), a Hussite writer and scribe to Jan z Chlu…

8) The Humpolec resident with the biggest impact on Czech history – and on the Prague public transport system – is the priest Jan Želivský (1380-1422; whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2022/11/19/p...).

7) It’s also known for being pretty much the midpoint between Prague and Brno on the D1 motorway.

Rodinný pivovar BERNARD Rodinný pivovar Bernard v Humpolci je tradičním výrobcem předního českého piva. Informace o sortimentu, ocenění, historii pivovaru, seznam obchodních míst, možnost objednávky magazínu Vlastní cestou a...

6) Becoming a town in 1807, Humpolec developed a thriving cloth guild, and became known as the Bohemian Manchester. Nowadays, the town is best known for the Family Brewery Bernard (www.bernard.cz).

5) A Hussite outpost in the Hussite Wars (1419 to 1434), Humpolec was, like so many places, confiscated after the Battle of Bílá Hora in 1620, and given to Catholic families.

Prague 1, day 198: Křižovnické náměstí Originally published on X on 11 April 2024. If you’ve got a vague memory of standing somewhere and thinking it must be the most crowded place in Prague, you may have been in this spot. In 1233, the…

4) The village passed through various owners, including the Order of the Crusaders with the Red Star (whose monastery there’s a 99.9999% chance you’ve been past if you’ve ever been to Prague, even if you went for the day: whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2024/10/16/p...).

3) The first verified written mention is from 1233, when the Order of Teutonic Knights sold some local property to the Želiv Monastery (remember that name).

2) Humpolec is a town in the Vysočina Region, about 23 km northwest of Jihlava, with approximately 12,000 residents.

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 362: Humpolecká, built in 1941, and one case where highlighting roads in red doesn’t work very well.

3) That longer red line on the map above indicates that, yes, the C line of the metro runs underground near here; the ‘no crossing here’ signs a bit to the north-west indicate that, once these pedestrian-inconveniencing building works are over, the D line will run around here too.

Prague 4, day 359: U nových domů I U nových domů I was built in 1935. ‘Nové domy’ are ‘new buildings’ or ‘new houses’. In 1935, the houses around here were indeed new – they had been built b…

2) This is the third – and, thankfully, final – part of the New Houses trilogy which started on whatsinapraguestreetname.com/2026/04/17/p....

1) What's in a Prague 4 Street Name, day 361: U nových domů III, built in 1935.

Flashbacks to my Polish classes in London circa 2008, when, every time somebody dropped out of the class, I always wondered if it was the relationship or the case system that was responsible...