“From Hradčanská to Kulaťák and additional to Jugoslávské Partizánů road, it’s like transferring by way of an structure textbook of the primary half of the twentieth century,” says the historian and writer of the guide Bubeneč/Dejvice – Siamese Twins of Prague’s Northwest Kateřina Bečákov on the best way. Based on her, the individuals of Dhejvič and Bhubeneč bought on nicely till it got here to the identify of the streets.
You have got lived in Dejvice all of your life. What’s your favourite half?
It is very tough to say, as a result of each time I get to know a component, I prefer it instantly. Lately, for instance, Podbaba received me over. I discovered one historic image of an fascinating constructing with data that it was a church in Podbaba. Traditionally, nonetheless, there was no church. I began researching and came upon that it isn’t a church, however a mill, which continues to be standing. While you study the historical past of a spot like this, you develop a hotter relationship with it.
Do not you remorse how the place has modified?
I am actually sorry. I’ve wished a time machine since I used to be a child, although I do know from many films how harmful it might be to make use of one. While you perceive the context of why a spot has modified, it provides you a totally completely different worth. For instance, I used to be additionally fascinated by how the artwork colony referred to as Villas on Slavíčková road got here to be in Bubenč. The well-known Villas Koulova and Suchardova are positioned there…
I used to be fascinated by the way it occurred that these artists constructed household homes subsequent to one another. It’s recognized that the land was acquired, often as a dowry, by the architect Rudolf Koukola, who provided it to his inventive colleagues. Plainly they have been linked by lively membership in Sokol. After I learn Jan E. Koula’s reminiscences of his childhood in Slavíčková Road, he writes that they’d parallel bars within the backyard and that their coach was Vojta Suchard from the close by village in Sokol in Bubeneč .
The facilities of the cities have been three kilometers aside
How lengthy did you’re employed on the guide?
Intensely for 2 years, however earlier than that I had been amassing visible materials for a while. The guide incorporates 632 principally historic images. I used to be very fortunate as a result of I got here throughout the collector Pavel Šaur, who focuses on Prague 6. So I bought the possibility to make use of about 120 chosen postcards from his assortment. I used to be additionally helped by the paperwork produced by the Metropolis Corridor within the Capital Metropolis of Prague from 1924.
When Higher Prague was created, it was determined to make an in depth document of the neighborhoods that joined Prague and should change fully sooner or later. I used about 100 and fifty photographs from this file, which as we speak is saved within the Prague Capital Archives. My favourite visible stage is the vedutes from the primary half of the nineteenth century, which present the romantic vacationers of the time who started to find the character outdoors the gates of Prague and the its common vacationer spots, in our case Podbabu, Šárka, the Royal Area, round Císařské mýlny and the ever-present vacationer resort.
Is that additionally the favored pub Na Slamník?
Sure, it was additionally referred to as the Decrease Lodge. In Bubenč there was as soon as additionally a Horní krčma, referred to as Na Seník for a change, however it disappeared within the Forties.
You write about Dejvice and Bubenč as a Siamese couple, however on the similar time you say that they have been two very completely different neighborhoods…
100 years in the past, Dejvice was a naked subject with homes and a farm. The place the village colony of Hanspaulka is as we speak, there have been solely agricultural plots. A drummer has a a lot richer historical past. The oldest reference from 1197 refers back to the historic determine of Grand Duke Hroznaty. When he was getting ready for the Fourth Campaign, he wrote a will by which the city of Bubeneč, at the moment Ovenec, can be talked about, which is the primary point out of the city.
The guts of the cities of Dejvice and Bubeneč are three kilometers aside because the crow flies. They’d nothing extra in frequent than a border in the course of the fields. However after the creation of Nice Prague, the cities grew collectively and Victory Sq. turned their coronary heart.
Dejvice had lunch
Did Bubeneč and Dejvice ever have an argument?
I do know nothing of any nice controversy. I solely realized that as we speak’s Jaselská road was initially referred to as Dejvická. It was a border road between Dejvice and Bubenec, and the individuals of Bubenec have been upset that it was referred to as Dejvická.
The interval photographs in your guide present that Dejvice even had his personal lunch…
Sure, individuals used to swim there many years in the past. You possibly can nonetheless discover the road U Dejwického rybníčku there as we speak, the pond might be discovered in response to previous maps, however there isn’t any hint of it as we speak.
In the event you had the aforementioned time machine, what would you need to see?
I might have an interest within the location of the chapels on the pilgrimage route, which works round from as we speak’s Hradčanská to the church of St. Matthew in Horní Šárka. I might additionally wish to know what the ruined summer time citadel on Baba Hill regarded like.
Is the pilgrimage of Saint Matthew a remnant of this pilgrimage?
Sure, this was the primary pilgrimage after the winter, it occurred round February twenty fourth. Individuals rejoiced that winter was coming to an finish. The recognition of the pilgrimage is documented by work by which the pilgrimage route is surrounded by stalls. Nonetheless, the enjoyable character regularly overcame the ecclesiastical church and the pilgrimage within the type of an amazing truthful was moved to as we speak’s Vítězné náměstí to the locations the place as we speak’s CTU is positioned. When new technical buildings have been constructed round 1960, the pilgrimage moved to Holešovice, the place it’s nonetheless held as we speak.
Interval photographs even present that, amongst different issues, military subject kitchens are educated in Bubencha…
The military purchased Ck It used a part of it as a military coaching floor and through the First World Struggle he arrange a hospital – the so-called hospital barracks – and he was going to construct an artillery barracks within the place the place Victory Sq. is as we speak. With the creation of Higher Prague in 1920, nonetheless, issues modified dramatically. Nonetheless, the custom of essential navy institutions (Normal Employees, Ministry of Protection) in Dejvice continues.
Precisely 100 years in the past in Could 1924, the State Administration Fee authorised the event plan for Dejvice and a part of Bubenče, and over the subsequent twenty years, a compact city was created the place the borders of the 2 authentic cities are not recognizable with town. bare eye
