#Lossi (Loss)
Castle. 2 varieties:
1) #Vanalinn #Toompea
#tänav, after #Glehni N.v.’s residence #Hohenhaupt, at the western end of #Trepi. Renamed (1950-90) #Basseini during the #SovietOcccupation; &
2) #VanaMustamäe #Kadaka
#plats, between and around #Toompea castle and #AlexanderNevsky Cathedral.
#Vete (Veed)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #VanaMustamäe
Waters, singular: vesi:vee. What the waters are is not clear. Possibly local marshy land, or related to the ponds created by #Glehni N.v., to the #swimming-pools built in the 1920s (now part of the #NõmmeSpordikeskus (sports center)?
#Water #Vesi
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#Välgu (1960-89) during the #SovietOccupation. The #Glehni streetname was reinstated (and time-shared?) in 1939, upped to Nikolai v. Glehni tn in 1989 and restored to all its aristocratic pre-1939 fullness of Nikolai von Glehni tänav in 2010.
#NotableEstonians #MärkimisväärsedEestlased
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#Glehni N.v. (Nikolai von Glehn, Count, 1841-1923)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Nõmme #Rahumäe
Founder of the then town, now suburb, of Nõmme. Died in #Brazil. One of the last scions of a family descended from the #German merchant #HeinrichVonGlehn, who arrived in #Estonia in the mid 17th C.
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#Tähetorni (Tähetorn)
Observatory (lit. star tower). After the Tallinn Observatory, former watch tower on the #Glehni N.v. estate. Tallinn’s previous observatory, the cupola of which can still, apparently, be seen, was at #Estonia 15.
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Haabersti #Hiiu #VanaMustamäe #Mäeküla
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