Jaani Seek Photo No.1. The St-John’s Hospice/Almshouse (church (Jaani seegi kirik) on the corner of Tornimäe and Rävala, Tallinn, viewed from its courtyard. Painted pale-yellow with a ruddy-brown tiled roof, it is a relatively small (approximately 21 by 7 meters) and low church with single spire.

Jaani Seek Photo No.2. The same St-John’s Hospice/Almshouse church viewed from Tartu maantee (highway) in the mist with modern glass-fronted office buildings in the background.

Jaani Seek Photo No.3. The same St-John’s Hospice/Almshouse church viewed side on from Rävala puiestee (avenue).

Façade of the Galerii Seek, or Almshouse Gallery, associated with Jaani Seek, in Väike-Pääsukese (lesser swallow street). The museum being essentially underground, the image shows the 50-meter-long glass front of the triangular structure rising from the ground and facing away from Rävala puiestee (avenue).

#Jaani Seek (0) #Monument
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
#StJohn’s #Almshouse (and later #leprosarium) on the corner of #Tornimäe and #Rävala. Known in #Latin as domus fratrum leprosorum sancti Johannis, and...
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Liivalaia (Liivalai)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Tatari #Veerenni #Sibulaküla #Keldrimäe #Maakri
#SandyExpanse, avenue, channel... Named after local sand flats, see #Liiva. Nice muddle this one: Renamed (1944-92?) as #Kingissepa V. during the #SovietOccupation (at one stage of its evolutionary mutation
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#Kana (Kana)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Hen, #chicken. Street more or less opposite the #Maakri synagogue until 2000. Formerly #Hühnerzehgasse, #Hühnerzehstraße (chicken-toe, the #German term reminiscent of #French patte d’oie (goose foot) which indicates
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Then came #war, #SovietOccupation, #Nazis, #deportations, #pogroms and #extermination (see #Maakri). Given the ruthless efficiency of the latter, #Estonia’s remarkably brilliant and ‘somewhat’ (did I hear ‘rampant’?) anti-Aryan and -Indo-European #polyglot (±60 languages) #UkuMasing (another
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Then came war, #SovietOccupation, #Nazis, #deportations, #pogroms and #extermination (see #Maakri). Given the ruthless efficiency of the latter, #Estonia’s remarkably brilliant and ‘somewhat’ (did I hear ‘rampant’?) anti-Aryan and -Indo-European #polyglot (±60 languages) #UkuMasing (another
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#Seltri (Selters)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#Maakri
#Seltzer, or just plain soda or carbonated water, named after the #German town of Selters known for its mineral water. Calling a street which led directly to the then #Härjapea river cum #Tallinn waste-disposal duct is as misleading as the
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#Kuke (Kukk)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
#Cock, #rooster. Formerly spelled Kukke and significanly shorter than its present-day layout, it curved around a smaller and shorter #Kana tänav (Hen st.). Why these names? Your guess is as good as mine.

#Update #Värskendus
#Animal #Loom
#Bird #Lind

#Liivalaia (Liivalai)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Tatari #Veerenni #Sibulaküla #Keldrimäe #Maakri
#Sandy expanse, avenue, channel... Named after local sand flats. Nice muddle this one: Renamed (1944-1992?) as #Kingissepa V. during the #SovietOccupation (at one stage of its evolutionary mutation from
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Väike-Pääsukese.

View along Väike-Pääsukese, Tallinn, in the direction of Pääsukese and Maakri.

Sheet-metal and concrete garden at the junction of View along Pääsukese and Väike-Pääsukese, Tallinn.

Flower tub made from what looks like one of the WWII mines left scattered around Aegna (to be checked, could be anything...) in Väike-Pääsukese, Tallinn.

#Väike-Pääsukese (Väike-Pääsuke[ne])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
Another odd one. Like its bigger brother #Pääsukese, the name is barely used, and the solitary streetsign of its unpronounceable name is positioned in the most out-of-the-way place possible.
#PersonalName #Isikunimi

View along Pääsukese, Tallinn, in the direction of Rävala puiestee.

View along Pääsukese, Tallinn, in the direction of Maakri.

#Pääsukese (Pääsuke[ne])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
Swallow, martin. Be that as it may, the name comes from #Schwalbegasse after 19th C property-owner and cabman, #CarlSchwalbe. Schwalbe (Ger.) = pääsuke (Est.) = swallow (Eng.).
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Landowner #Maaomanik
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname A.Lauteri on it.

Commemorative plaque on the wall of A.Lauteri 8, in honor of its eponymous actor, director, artist.

#Lauteri A. (Ants Lauter, 1894-1973)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Sibulaküla #Maakri
Actor, “People’s Artist of the USSR”, who lived at No.8 in this street from 1960 till his death, star of famous Estonian pic: Mehed ei nuta (Men don’t cry).
#NotableEstonians #MärkimisväärsedEestlased
#Art #Kunst
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#Rävala (Rävala)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Südalinn #Sibulaküla #Maakri
Or #Revalia, historical (±12/13th C) county of #Estonia, later used as name for Tallinn: #Reval. Renamed (1950-1991, along with #Kaubamaja (?-1991), as #Lenini during the #SovietOccupation.
#History #Ajalugu

#Tartu (Tartu)
University town in southern central #Estonia, settled since 5th C CE, known previously as #Dorpat, Tharbata, Yuryev. Ruled by the Poles in the 16th century,
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Lasnamäe #Kompassi #Maakri #Torupilli #Keldrimäe #Juhkentali #Sikupilli #Ülemistejärve #Ülemiste #Mõigu
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#Pääsukese (Pääsuke[ne])
Swallow, martin. Be that as it may, the name comes from #Schwalbegasse after 19th‑C property-owner and cabman, #CarlSchwalbe. Schwalbe (Ger.) = pääsuke (Est.) = swallow (Eng.).
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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#Tornimäe (Tornimägi)
Although it means Tower Hill, there’s neither one nor tother in sight. Apparently named after a certain Adam Tornimäe (or Adam X from Tornimäe in #Saaremaa), a worker who rented a property from Jaani Seek, St John’s Almshouse, in the early 17th C
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
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#Maakri (Carl Ludvig Macker [Mecker])
18th‑C dean of the weavers’ guild. According to TT, the dry-cleaners now at No.23 evolved out of the cleaning and dying company founded by the Macker family in 1820 (Carl Ludvig was first mentioned in 1769),
#Tallinn#Kesklinn#Maakri#Kompassi
#Business#Äri
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#Kivisilla (Kivisild)
Stone bridge, after one that used to span the #Härjapea river. Formerly, a suburb of #Tallinn (roughly, today’s #Maakri, #Rävala, #Tartu & #Tornimäe... area). Renamed under Soviet occupation (1957-1991), along with #Reimani V., as #Anveldi J..
#Kesklinn #Maakri #Kompassi

#Lennuki (Lennuk)
1) Originally, the name of #Kalevipoeg’s ship; 2) Airplane, aircraft. Name also given to one of two Russian destroyers (this one, ‘Avtroil’, built, ironically, by Tallinn shipbuilders Bocker and Lange with help from France)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
#Mythology #Mütoloogia
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