Vysočany

Place in Czech Republic

Vysočany Wissotschan (German)
District of Prague Administrative District of Prague
Prague 9 town hall in Vysočany
Coat of arms
Praha KÚ Vysočany.png
Coordinates: 50°6′38″N 14°30′0″E / 50.11056°N 14.50000°E / 50.11056; 14.50000
Country	Czech Republic
Region	Prague
Area
• Total	6.06 km² (2.34 sq mi)
Population (2011)
• Total	15,214
• Density	2,500/km² (6,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	190 00
Website	http://www.praha9.cz

Vysočany (German: Wissotschan) is a part of Prague in the Prague 9 administrative district (partly in Prague 3), Czech Republic. It lays in the eastern part of Prague around the valley with Rokytka river.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1869	1,766	—
1880	2,334	+32.2%
1890	3,329	+42.6%
1900	4,406	+32.4%
1910	6,896	+56.5%
1921	8,554	+24.0%
1930	15,762	+84.3%
1950	18,207	+15.5%
1961	17,202	−5.5%
1970	13,005	−24.4%
1980	10,340	−20.5%
1991	8,197	−20.7%
2001	8,013	−2.2%
2011	15,214	+89.9%
2021	17,465	+14.8%
Source: Censuses^[1]^[2]

History

The first recorded information about Vysočany is from 1115 when the duke Vladislav I. gave Vysočany vineyards to Kladruby monastery.
In 1896 - Emil Kolben - important Czech engineer and entrepreneur (former employee and friend of Thomas Edison) founded its factory which later became famous ČKD. This strongly influenced Vysočany as a heavily industrial district of Prague.
In the year 1902 - the emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria awarded Vysočany with the title of city and the right to use its coat of arms.
1911 - Vysočany Town Hall was built
In 1922 - Vysočany became part of Prague.
In 1939 - after Nazi invasion of Prague. The majority of industrial production had to be refocused on military production to support Nazi-Germany war
In 1942 - several families from Vysočany were involved in the Operation Anthropoid (assassination of Reinhard Heydrich)
In 1945 - during the end of World War II the district was heavily damaged during the Bombing of Prague. The targets were factories which were forced to produce military material.
In 1968 - after the invasion of Russian armies - there was a special convention of the Czechoslovak Communist Party held in Vysočany which strongly condemned the invasion of the Soviet armies.
Since 1990s - the new era after Velvet Revolution saw Vysočany transforming from heavily industrial district to new modern residential part of Prague. Big part of construction is focused on the "brown-fields" after former factories.

Infrastructure

Vysočany has 2 metro stations on the line B: Vysočanská and Kolbenova.
2 train stations (Praha-Vysočany and Praha-Libeň).
The oldest airport in Prague Kbely lies partly in Vysočany.

Interesting facts

The tallest residential building in the Czech Republic Rezidence Eliška is in Vysočany.
Vineyard Máchalka is the only one left in the almost 1000-year history of vine production in Vysočany. It was renewed in 1998.
Part of the Pragovka factory was rebuilt to an artist/community center
The largest flea market in Prague is in Vysočany district in the U Elektry street.
O2 Arena (Prague) with the shopping mall Galerie Harfa and Harfa Business District is generally considered as Vysočany although officially lies in Libeň district.

References

^ "Historický lexikon obcí České republiky 1869–2011 – Praha" (in Czech). Czech Statistical Office. 2015-12-21.
^ "Výsledky sčítání 2021 - otevřená data". Public Database. Czech Statistical Office. 2021-03-27.