House on Brookusplats, on the corner of Olevimägi and Sulevimägi streets in Tallinn.

House on Brookusplats, on the corner of Olevimägi and Vene streets in Tallinn.

#Brookus (Brookus)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Actually #Brookusplats (Brookus square). Latinized name of #Brockhusen, name associated with ownership of various properties in the northern end of Tallinn old-town (#Pikk, #Lai, #Laboratooriumi...).
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de isern doere, #MLG for ‘iron door’, in the 15-16th C which may be a conflation with the same in #Sulevimägi. Following this, few records until 1732 when the #Brookus name appears: der Brocks-Berg in #German and prooks mäggi in old-style #Estonian.
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