Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Kullassepa on it.

Early evening view of Kullassepa, Tallinn, facing Raekoja Plats.

#Kullassepa (Kullassepp)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Goldsmith. Known earlier as vicus institoris (1327), platea institorum (1345) or kremerstrate (1389), translated variously as merchants’, grocers’ or haberdashers’ street, this may be artificially upping their game somewhat.
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Street first recorded in 1339 as #PlateaFabrorum, then #smedestrate (1362) and #smitdestrate (1363), all Smith Street, continuing the tradition through the 16th C with #kannengeterstrate (also used for #Kullassepa for a while) or #tinngeterstrate, both meaning #pewterer or #tinsmith street,
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and why compound words involving #sepp (smith) do not usually involve a genitive in the first place I don’t know (see #Kullassepa, #Rätsepa & #Sepa, [although perhaps they do, see #Nõmme]) – then the #Russians either translating it nearly correctly as
#EstonianLanguage #EestiKeel
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