#WindeckiPark, former #poolmõis (see #Mõisa) once known as #Weissi. Should I dig deeper? No.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#ManorHouse #Mõis
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a qualifier of #Mõisa indicating a manor-like household, along with its land and houses). See also #Sambliku.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Nature #Loodus
#Vegetable #Taimne
#Moss #Sammal
#Landowner #Maaomanik
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#Miku (Mikk?)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Iru
Given the predominance of garden centers, market gardeners and florists in the area, a former farm name, descendent of a #poolmõis (see #Mõisa) known in 1913 as Ges. Miku. (Miku’s dependency). What the original name was is uncertain. Mikk:Miku was an #Estonian
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#Pruuali (?)
#TallinnasMitte
Named after a former farm, probably a #poolmõis (see #Mõisa) named for what seem to be a ‘dynasty’ of brewer-type names: #AndresBrauer (1692), then #MartPruwer and #JahnPrubere (1725). See #Õllepruuli, suggesting other crops or occupations. Footpath just outside Tallinn…

Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kohila.

View along Kohila, Tallinn, from the Pärnu maantee direction.

Police and Border Guard Board (Politsei- ja Piirivalveamet) in Kohila, Tallinn.

View along Kohila, Tallinn, in the Pärnu maantee direction.

#Kohila (Kohila)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kitseküla
Town and manor house (see #Mõisa) in #Harjumaa. Latter first mentioned 1438 under the #German name of #Koil, listed in the 1241 #LiberCensusDaniae as Koil or #Koylae.
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Bearing in mind that milling, or the authority to mill, used to be the apanage of a knight, noble or other member of the ruling-class, this would probably have originated as a #kõrvalmõis (see #Mõisa).
#LateFeudalism #Hilisfeodalism
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#Rocca al Mare (0) #Asum
Name of summer estate (#suvemõis, see #Mõisa) of the #GirardDeSoucanton family (originally #FrenchProvençal; Arthur Baron Girard de Soucanton [1813-1884] was #TallinnCouncillor from 1864-1876 and...
#Parks And Gardens ##PargidJaAiad
#Tallinn #Haabersti #RoccaAlMare
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#Kotlepi (Kotlep)
From the #German, #Gottfried, with multiple spellings (Kottvriid, Kottart, Kotolt, etc.). Name of former local farm/farming-family. Farm group. Although judging by its German name, the ‘farm’ may well have been a poolmõis, see #Mõisa. See also #Kristeni.
#Tallinn #Haabersti #Tiskre

#Tondi (Jobst Dunte, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5…):
Disappointingly, not from #tont, ghost or specter, as local lore would have it, but after the summer estate (see #Mõisa) of #JobstDunte, which all seems nice and simple, but it’s not. Which Jobst (or Jost) Dunte (or Dunt or Dunten)?
#History #Ajalugu
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#Katleri (?)
After name of local #poolmõis (see #Mõisa) owner August Kattler who bought it in 1877. Known previously and variously as Karlowa, Karlova or Carlowa Mõis or Карлова (after Carl Nikolai Koch who founded it in the early 1800s) and, once, #Tondi.
#Tallinn #Lasnamäe #Katleri
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The name was later given to a #linnamõis (see #Mõisa) a kilometer or so NNW, owned at one stage by one of the Jobst Duntes, so also known as Tondi Mõis (see #Tondi and #Tondiraba). Another #VäoMõis was located some 20-odd km east of #Tallinn.
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*1) A #farm or #poolmõis (see #Mõisa) just named Trahter (there *was* an Adami Trahteri tee/Aadamatrahteri koht [stead, seat] a few km east, possibly related); 2) A farm or *poolmõis acting as inn.
Food #Toit
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Earliest record dating to 1515 as Vismestere. Name later adopted by a summer manor (see #Mõisa) in #Haabersti (for the locality’s history of name change, see #Fišmeistri).
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#History #Ajalugu
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Comes in all sizes: #Väike (Small), #Kesk (Medium), #Suur (Large), and, forgive the mixed metaphors, #Vanilla. Named after manor house (see #Mõisa) itself named after what is believed to be the site of a battle
#Military #Sõjaline
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#Lillepi (?)
Park laid out on former poolmõis or perhaps karjamõis (see #Mõisa) of that name, recorded as Lillupi (1874), Lellepe (?) and Lylli perre (1689), where the -pi ending just seems to be a shortening. Poss. related to Lillevere (Lillæuæræ, 1241) but origin unsure.
#Streetnames #Tänavanimed

#Postitalu (Postitalu)
Rural sub-post-office. Interesting… given the associations of farms (talu [sing.], talud, [pl.]) and manors / estates (see #Mõisa), the name reveals a hint in the development of state services.
#Mõisad #Tallinn #Streetnames
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a #kõrvalmõis, see #Mõisa). Heise may also be another spelling of personal name Heysze, DEPn notes a 1516 #Tallinn mayor called Heysze Pattiner, without implying he was the specific one). See also #Mäe for discussion.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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#Mõisa (Mõis): Country estate, manor. This one referring to former Haabersti mõis across the road.
#Tallinn #streetnames #onomastics #odonymy #dictionary #TallinnStreets