#Nunnatorn (0) #Monument
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#Nun’s #Tower. Name first recorded 1738 but, built 1311-20, also known at one stage as "de nie torn". #Nie has an intriguing history. In #MLG, it basically meant ‘new’, so #NewTower? It was once, so why not? But it is also what
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#Trepi (Trepp)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Staircase, flight of stairs, doorsteps. Two versions: town-center version once known as...
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View from the southern fork of n Suur-Karja towards Karjavärava plats, Tallinn.
Sculpture of the Happy Chimneysweep (2010) by Tauno Kangro in the center or Karjavärava plats, Tallinn. The sculpture shows a chubby, top-hatted sweep carrying his paraphernalia across the square.
The Sõprus Cinema between Müürivahe and Vana-Posti on the north side of Karjavärava plats, Tallinn.
View of Karjavärava plats, Tallinn, from the eastern stretch of Müürivahe.
#Karjavärava plats (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
The 1989 naming of the expanded(?) crossroads between #SuurKarja, #Müürivahe and #VanaPosti, some ...
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Wikipedia photo by Wikipedian Jeremykemp of the rude or offensive "mano fico" or fig gesture, i.e. the thumb stuck between the first and middle finger.
The Rataskaev monument above the actual well in Rataskaevu tänav (wheel-well street), Tallinn. A roofed, hexagonal colonnade type structure.
View of old buildings east along Rataskaevu tänav (wheel-well street), Tallinn.
View of late-medieval/early rennaisance buildings on the north side of Rataskaevu tänav (wheel-well street), Tallinn.
#Rataskaevu (Rataskaev)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
See #Rataskaev for the meaning of the well itself. As to the...
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Photograph of a rooftop and old(school chimney in Tolli tänav (meaning customs street), Tallinn, Estonia.
Photograph along Tolli tänav (meaning customs street), Tallinn, Estonia, showing old buildings and doorways.
Photograph along Tolli tänav (meaning customs street), Tallinn, Estonia, with buildings tarped for renovation.
Photograph of a doorway in Tolli tänav (meaning customs street), Tallinn, Estonia, made up of old planks and in need of repair.
#Tolli (Toll)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
1) #Customs, #duty; 2) Inch. Clearly the former, named after the #TallinnaTollimaja...
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#Raekoja tänav (Raekoda)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Town hall street. Earliest recorded name was #budel or #BodelStrate (1371). Understood or #misunderstood in the 1st edition of the present dictionary as...
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#Meistrite hoov (Meistrid [pl.])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#Masters’ courtyard (see #Meistri). Cobbled passageway off #Vene 6, dating back to pre-13th C, but first recorded 1371. Nice café.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#History #Ajalugu
Saunatagunetorn (0) #Monument
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Tower behind the baths. See also #Stoltingi torn.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#CityWall #Linnamüür
#CityDefense #Linnakaitse
#TallinnHistory #TallinnaAjalugu
#TallinnTowers #TallinnTornid
#Kuninga (Kuningas)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#King. But #NoKings. Possibly named after a certain Lambert Konnigisbergh, recorded 1436, or even after a surname, #Koning, used for/by citizens of the then #King. As a side note, the term may also have been used for ‘county elders’,
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#Suur-Kloostri (Suur-Klooster)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn #KolmasLinn
Running from #Lai to #Nunne, hence the name. Earliest records (<1732) give #KloostriMüriTagga, Ger. hinter der Kloster-Mauer (behind the convent walls), later, under the SovietOccupaton (1950-87), #Nooruse.
#Suurgildi (Suurgild)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Square (#plats), not street. #MerchantsGuild (lit. big guild). Named in 1989 after the #Suurgild building at #Pikk 17.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#History #Ajalugu
#Seegihoov (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#Almshouse / Hospital / Leprosarium / Poorhouse courtyard. Plot of land surrounding #JaaniSeek, the St-John’s Almshouse.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Religion #Religioon
#Health #Tervis
#Karjavärava (Karjavärav)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#CattleGate. Various permutations. Today a square, Karjavärava plats, the original cattle gate was some 50-100 m further south and recorded in various languages, first (1365) as #PortaPecorum (Lat.) or #veporte (MLG vē and its
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#Kooli (Kool)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#School. The two contiguous education street-names of Kooli and #Gümnaasiumi were fused (1939-1989) under the name #GümnaasiumiJaKooli during the #SovietOccupation, both streets referring to the #GustavAdolfiGümnaasium, which #Kivi lists under
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#Lai (Lai)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#Broad, #wide. One of the oldest streets in Tallinn, with a long list of names to prove it. Initially identified after its salient residents, the #nuns: #susterstrate (1361), vicus monialium or platea (longa/sancti) monialium, loosely translated
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#Renteni (Arent von Renten 14-15th C) #Monument
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
One-time #tower built (±1340-1355) under alderman and city head of defense #ArentVonRenten, believed completely demolished, but lower wall remains discovered at #Lai 49 in 2003.
#Kuradiema torn (0) #Monument
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#Devil’sMother’sTower. See Kuradi torn.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#CityWall #Linnamüür
#CityDefense #Linnakaitse
#History #Ajalugu
#20Augusti (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Park, opened on 2011-08-20, commemorating the day in 1991 when the Estonian Republic's independence was decided and restored, now a national holiday: Taasiseseisvumispäev (Day of Restoration of Independence).
#СлаваЕстонії
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#Vaate (Vaade)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
1) Look, glance, eye; 2) Sight, spectacle, view, opinion, retrospect. Overlooking #TallinnaReidi, or Tallinn #Roads, in Tallinn bay.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Maritime #Merendus
Dominiiklaste (Dominiiklased [pl.])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Dominican friars (Sing.: #Dominiiklane), see #Katoliku. Neither this location nor the next, #Dunkri, appear in Kivi’s #TallinnaTänavad of 1972. Although today this is a #hoov (from Ger. #Hof, courtyard), it used to be
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#Fulfordi-tagune torn (0) #Monument
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Commonly used but incorrect name of #WulfardiTagune torn.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#CityWall #Linnamüür
#CityDefense #Linnakaitse
#History #Ajalugu
#Harjuorg (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Harju valley. Now seems to be just a large car park.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Munkadetagune torn (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Tower behind the monks, an unsavory location to say the least. See also #Neitsi torn.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#CityWall #Linnamüür
#Hellemanni torn (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Helleman, Holleman? Untraced. Reportedly named after local land-owner. See also Hinke torn.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#CityWall #Linnamüür
#Kitseaed (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Deer garden. Not a street but a miniature park at the junction of #Nunne and #Lai, featuring a copy of the 1929 #Metskits (roe deer) statue by #Koorti J., after whom the park is sometimes known.
#ParksAndGardens #PargidJaAiad
#Art #Kunst
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Pikk jalg.
View along Pikk jalg, Tallinn, in the uphill direction towards the Toompea Väike linnus (smaller citadel) and so on.
Archway beneath Pikk jalg tower, Tallinn.
View of the Pikk jalg tower, in Pikk jalg, Tallinn.
#Pikk Jalg (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
First recorded as longus mons (1342), this is perhaps the clearest indication of what a #jalg is geographically. Since #Estonian doesn’t specifically differentiate #leg from #foot (see, e.g., #Sõnajala), what’s referred to here is
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kinga.
View along Kinga, Tallinn, in the direction of Raekoja Plats
View along Kinga, Tallinn, in the direction of Pikk.
Late-medieval building with upper-floor winch in Kinga, Tallinn.
#Kinga (King)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Shoe street. Always has been, although the names more often suggested the maker: strata calcificum (1357), platea sutorum (1364), schohmekerstrate (1405), Schuhmacherstraße (1740), Schusterstraße (1803) and Башмачная ул (1872), than the object:
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View of the city walls with Neitsitorn in the background of Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn.
The Flag of Denmark, Dannebrog, or Taani lipp in Estonian in the Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn.
Monk sculpture in the Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn.
Memorial to the Paul & Kristjan Raud brothers who once lived in a tower in the Taani Kuninga Aed (The King of Denmark's garden), Tallinn.
#Taani Kuninga (Taani Kuningas)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
King of Denmark. The king in question being Valdemar II, or Valdemar the Victorious (1202-1241) who, the papers say, founded Tallinn (he didn't). But he did get a garden.
#History #Ajalugu
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Väike-Karja below an oeil-de-boeuf window.
View along Väike-Karja, Tallinn, in the direction of Pärnu maantee (highway).
View along Väike-Karja, Tallinn, in the NE direction towards Suur-Karja.
Courtyard in Väike-Karja, Tallinn
#Väike-Karja (Väike-Kari)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn #Vanalinn
[Small, Lesser, Lower] Cattle. Written Veike-Karja in 1885, and known from 16-19th C as am, im or auf dem Schilde, by/in/on the shield, although why is unclear.
#OldTown #Vanalinn
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Rüütli.
View south along Rüütli, Tallinn.
Late medieval house in Rüütli, Tallinn.
Arched stone doorway to late medieval house in Rüütli, Tallinn.
#Rüütli (Rüütel)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Knight, cavalier. Renamed (1950-1987) as #Rataskaevu during the #SovietOccupation.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#History #Ajalugu
