The vineyard runs in a narrow strip along the wall lining Úvoz street to the building housing the original vine press, after which it extends down into the lower part of the garden. Like the vineyards around Strahov Monastery, this part of the Petřín vineyards was once owned by the Royal Canon of the Premonstratensians in Strahov. Once completely defunct, the vineyard was restored in 2004 and gradually expanded to take the form we see today. The name St. John's (Svatojánská) comes from the nearby Church of St. John the Baptist, which was closed down during the Josephine reforms. Vines were grown in the Strahov Garden before 1143, when the Strahov Premonstratensian Monastery was founded. Over time, the Petřín vineyards were expanded. Some of them were worked by the Premonstratensians themselves, while others were rented to tenants. During wartime (the Hussite Wars, the Thirty Years' War, the War of the Austrian Succession) the vineyards and the graft nursery were completely destroyed, but were always later renovated. They disappeared in the 19th century, and all that was preserved was the vineyard press in the wall of Úvoz.