Praguer as a log – quiz about Prague 10
photo: Petr Kouba, PrahaIN.cz (like others)/The dominant feature of the Church of St. Wenceslas in Prague’s Vršovice is a 56-meter high functionalist tower
This address is often perceived as derogatory, but let’s make it a priority at PrahaIN.cz. A true Pražák knows his forest like a log, where it grows and literally knows something about every tree stump he stumbles upon. So can you also boldly declare that you are a Praguer like a log?
So let’s test your knowledge of the metropolis. This time Fr administrative district of Prague 10. This is the cadastral territory of Vršovice, almost all of Strašnice and Malešice, more than half of Záběhlice, roughly a quarter of Michle and small parts of Vinohrad and Hrdlořez. The administrative part of Prague 10 occupies an area of approximately 19 km2, which is less than 4 percent of the total area of the metropolis. However, 115,000 people live here, which is 9 percent of the total population of the capital.
We have prepared ten questions for you, which will confirm your right to boast the title of Praguer as a log. Have you gathered enough courage? Try to find the answers to the following questions. Let the fact that the test concerns be a small hint the tenth administrative district.
Questions:
1. Do you know what trees were grown in the orchard around Vršovice castle?
2. Do you know what the tallest building in the tenth district of Prague is?
3. Do you know what Strašnice got its name from?
4. Do you know what the Praha-Vršovice station was called until the protectorate?
5. Do you know where the white lady haunted Prague 10?
6. Do you know the name of the housing estate in Prague 10, where Czechoslovak soldiers working in Milovice had to move after 1968?
7. Do you know where we can find the tallest residential building in the tenth district of Prague?
8. Do you know which singer made Záběhlice famous with the famous song Kočka ze Záběhlice?
9. Do you know what material the cross on top of the St. Wenceslas church in Vršovice is made of?
10. Do you know which part of Prague can boast of being a haven for two first league football teams?
Who would believe today that the Rangherka building was just a silk factory in the 19th century
Correct answers:
1. Do you know what trees were grown in the orchard around Vršovice castle?
Mulberry. In the 1870s, the original Špendlíkářka vineyard here was purchased by the Italian merchant Guiseppe Rangheri from Lombardy. That is why the castle is still called Rangherka. However, his son Enrico Rangheri has the greatest credit for the current shape of the location. He built a silk factory and large silk orchards here. At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, a major reconstruction took place and the building began to resemble a castle. However, the mulberry orchards were cut down over time, and in their place we find Herold’s orchards. Today, the building serves as a home for a happy old age, and inside we can also find the ceremonial hall of the tenth city district of Prague.
Vršovice Castle (Rangherka)
2. Do you know what the tallest building in the tenth district of Prague is?
It is the chimney of the incinerator in Malešice. It was completed in 1996 and is 179 meters high.
3. Do you know what Strašnice got its name from?
According to the man Strašen, to whom the local village belonged in the Middle Ages. He drove away evil spirits, so he did the exact opposite than one would guess. There were no ghosts in Strašnice, but on the contrary, evil spirits were chased away.
4. Do you know what the Praha-Vršovice station was called until the protectorate?
Prague-Nusle. The track brought to the area in 1871 greatly helped the relatively backward locality. However, the stop did not appear here until eleven years later, and it was still called Praha–Nusle. Locals waited until the time of the Protectorate to rename the station Prague–Vršovice.
The castle in Záběhlice, where the white lady haunted
5. Do you know where the white lady haunted Prague 10?
At the chateau in Záběhlice. And according to legend, she ran rampant here for several decades. She disappeared only at the moment when new bells were hung in the nearby Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary. They made such a loud noise that it was unbearable for the white lady, so she preferred to disappear.
The Church of the Nativity of the Virgin Mary can be found in Záběhlice in close proximity to the Hamerské rybník. Its bells startled even the run-of-the-mill white lady
6. Do you know the name of the housing estate in Prague 10, where Czechoslovak soldiers working in Milovice had to move after 1968?
Vlasta housing estate. Soldiers had to move from Milovice because the garrison there fell to the Soviet occupiers and the houses of the Czechoslovak soldiers fell to the Red Army soldiers.
7. Do you know where we can find the tallest residential building in the tenth district of Prague?
In Strašnice. It is a 74 meter high apartment building in Limuzská Street No. 10; it has twenty one floors.
8. Do you know which singer made Záběhlice famous with the famous song Kočka ze Záběhlice?
Vera Nerušilová. The famous chanson was heard for the first time in the film Death of the Black King from 1971, and since then Věra Nerušilová has secured undying fame.
The dominant building of Prague’s tenth city district – the Church of St. Wenceslas
9. Do you know what material the cross on top of the St. Wenceslas church in Vršovice is made of?
Made of opaxite glass. It was a dense special glass that was produced in Chodov in Karlovy Vary, its equivalent today is opal glass. This cross is illuminated at night and glows into the darkness. The church was built in the early 1930s. And it is one of the most amazing functionalist church buildings in the republic. At a height of 56 meters, it dominates the whole district.
10. Do you know which part of Prague can boast of being a haven for two first league football teams?
Vršovice. Slavia Praha is at home in Eden, while kangaroos from Bohemians 1905 are at Ďolíčka.