Karlín, nejstarší předměstí Prahy / Prague´s Oldest Suburb – Míka Zdeněk (2011)

The publication is the second volume of a long-term project by the Museum of the Capital City of Prague about the districts of Prague. It introduces the deeper history of the locality, which became the first Prague suburb in 1817 and more than a hundred years later became part of Greater Prague. The titles of the chapters in the publication indicate the breadth of information that this richly illustrated publication brings to the reader: Špitálsko in the prehistoric, medieval, and modern periods, The Establishment of the Invalidovna, Settlement of Špitálsko at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, The Foundation of Karlín and its development in the first half of the 19th century, The Creation of the River Cargo Port and Gasworks, The Church of St. Cyril and Methodius, The Development of Karlín in the second half of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century (architecture, schools, cemetery, savings bank, social life, theater, Sokol, flood, exhibitions, sports…), Industrial Karlín, Changes in Railway Transport, Karlín after the establishment of Greater Prague…