Praha 9

Praha 9 is one of the twenty-two large city districts of the capital and lies in its north-eastern part.

According to its own website, Praha 9 is one of the twenty-two large city districts of the capital. It lies in the north-eastern part of the city and covers the cadastral areas of Vysočany, Prosek and parts of Střížkov, Libeň, Hrdlořezy and Hloubětín.[1] Its area is about 1,331 hectares.[1]

Population

The number of residents has been rising in recent years because of new construction. In 2025 the district had over 58,000 inhabitants. On 1 July 2025 they included 9,032 foreign nationals.[1] The district describes its population as varied, with a growing number of young families and foreigners.[1]

History and landmarks

The district's website states that calling Praha 9 an industrial part of the city is no longer justified and that it is a district through which national history has passed.[1] According to a legend, on 13 June 970 Duke Boleslaus II was returning from Stará Boleslav, where he had visited the grave of his uncle St Wenceslas. He chose a shorter but more strenuous route through the forest, fell asleep at the site of present-day Prosek, and in a dream his uncle told him to have a church built there. For this reason a Roman Catholic church dedicated to St Wenceslas stands at the edge of the Prosek housing estate. A Romanesque basilica had in fact probably stood there since the second half of the 11th century.[1]

The neo-Renaissance building of the Vysočany town hall was built to his own plans by the Vysočany builder and architect Václav Haase. Construction began in 1910 and ended at the end of 1911, as shown by the weather vane stamped with the year 1911. The town hall was put into use on 17 January 1912 and serves its purpose to this day.[1]

Transformation of the area

The central part of Vysočany, from the town hall to the Vysočany railway station, was demolished shortly before 1989 and gradually built up with residential and office buildings. According to the website, Sokolovská Street from Podviní Park to Palmovka, where the workers' houses by the architect J. Chochol stand in U Školičky Street, already suggests the closeness of the centre of a large city.[1]

From the beginning of the 21st century Vysočany and Libeň developed rapidly on the sites of abandoned factories. On the border of the two quarters the O2 Arena, the O2 universum multifunctional centre and the Stages Hotel Prague were built on the site of the former ČKD Lokomotivka works.[1] Some functionalist factory halls were renovated and serve as flats, for example Lofty Kolbenova, or as cultural centres, for example Pragovka Gallery and Beseder Gallery.[1]

Housing

The district offers various forms of housing. In Prosek, for example, prefabricated panel blocks from the second half of the 20th century predominate.[1]

Chronology

6 October 2026 — Construction of a new building for the GAELY grammar school and economic lyceum began in Vysočany in Praha 9. It is meant to raise the school's capacity to up to 360 students and to be completed in summer 2028. → Pražský patriot Pražský deník

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Městská část Praha 9