The walk traces the development of the so-called Kylešovský Hill, which began to take shape in the second half of the 19th century. By the early 20th century, several notable villas and larger buildings had already been built there, such as the Marianum (1908). It was only after 1918, however, with the need to address the housing crisis caused by the arrival of new state and provincial employees, that Kylešovský Hill became a prestigious residential quarter. Many of the building plots were acquired from the ducal farm, subdivided under land reform. Prague architect Jindřich Freiwald, a pupil of Jan Kotěra, drew up a regulatory and subdivision plan for the area, intended to create a genuine garden city, similar to the Ořechovka district in Prague. Freiwald’s star-shaped layout, however, did not suit local conditions. The city therefore commissioned provincial architect Karl Gottwald to prepare a new plan, based on the earlier layout plan of 1905, replacing individual detached houses with rental apartment buildings. This plan also shaped the gradual development of the newly created Božena Němcová Street, linking today’s Rooseveltova, Březinova, and Gudrichova streets with Bílovecká Street. In the years the followed, the surrounding streets were filled mostly with detached houses and villas.
