The winning square was “hit” by a meteorite. It commemorates the founding of the 100th anniversary of the city district
The meteorite on Vítězné náměstí measures about 3 meters, weighs approximately 3 tons and comes from the workshop of sculptor Michal Gabriel, who lent it free of charge for the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the city district. Michal Gabriel is the author of the famous bronze horse statues adorning the popular Petr Šabach Park in Dejvice in front of the Czechoslovak Church. Hussite Church and also the author of one of the seven sculptures in the open-air gallery in the Hadovka park, which was established in 2004 (other authors are František Skála, Stefan Milkov, Jaroslav Róna and Jasoň Zoubek).
The author of the template for Pelíšky received an honor. They have a new Sabach park in Dejvice
Prague 6 has long attracted attention through public interventions in public space. In 2016, Ferdinand Vaňek’s Bench provoked a great social debate, the installation of which in the Dejvice Campus culminated in the Tribute to Václav Havel festival.
In 2018, the public received a great response to the monument of Žofia Chotková’s Fan at the Písek Gate in Hradčany, which refreshes the surroundings of the water troughs in the hot months.
The commotion around the statue of Konev
The long-planned relocation of the statue of Marshal Konev of Bubeneč to the depository of the 20th Century Museum, as well as the city’s intention to announce an art competition for the monument to the liberation of Prague at the end of World War II, attracted considerable attention this beyond the borders of Prague 6 and the Czech state. of war.
An installation is also being prepared in Maria Theresa Park in Hradčany, where on October 20, 2020, Prague 6 is preparing to unveil the first domestic statue of this important Habsburg queen, the only woman – the queen on the Czech throne.
A skittle or a bell? A controversial monument is gaining its final shape in Prague 6
The celebrations of 100 years of Prague 6 began on Thursday evening at the Summer Cinema near Kepler with a screening of films thematically linked to Prague 6. Part of the celebrations of the centenary of Prague 6 is Saturday or the children’s race as part of the Goodwill Run – Olga Havel Foundation, which produces on the afternoon of Thursday, September 10, in the Hvězda game reserve.
Where did Prague 6 Day come from?
On September 4, 1920, Act No. 114/1920 Coll. signed by the President of the Czechoslovak Republic Tomáš Garrigu Masaryk, which made eight of the ten cadastral territories of today’s Prague 6 part of one municipality with the common name of the Capital City of Prague.
The day when the villages of Břevnov, Bubeneč, Dejvice, Střešovice, Liboc, Vokovice, Veleslavín and Sedlec merged into one is perceived by Prague 6 as a symbolic date of its establishment.
The transformation of Kulaťák has a timetable, it will take place within four years