Tisleri A. (Alice Tisler, 1893-1918)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Lived in this street. Daughter of a farm laborer, #TulihingelineKommunist (ardent, lit. ‘fire-bespirited’, communist), member of the Tallinn Red Guard, killed in Battle of Keila, 1918-02-23.#SovietOccupation naming (1949-90) of #Magasini.
Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Vaikne on it.
View along Vaikne, Tallinn, towards Kodu.
View of path in Vaikne Park, Tallinn.
Mother and infant statue in Vaikne Park, Tallinn.
#Vaikne (0)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Veerenni
Being an adjective, it simply means quiet, restful, peaceful. It is next to a park and close to a graveyard (see #Magasini). The #PacificOcean is the #VaikneOokean.
Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Võtme on it.
Barb-wired perimeter wall of Tallinn's former prison in Võtme, Tallinn.
Former prison service road slated for demolishing and rebuilding in Võtme, Tallinn.
Abandoned (?) old car outside the former prison in Võtme, Tallinn.
#Võtme (Võti)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Veerenni
Key. Next to #Luku. Street created in 2013, ominously, on October 2nd, beside the street ‘serving’ #Magasini (see #Introduction). Its name, and that of its immediate neighbor, were clearly chosen for its soon-to-be other former neighbor, the local nick.
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Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Magasini on it.
Part of a condo in Magasini, Tallinn .
Older, timber-built buildings closer to Tallinn center in Magasini.
Even older stone buildings in Magasini, Tallinn.
#Magasini (Magasin)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Veerenni
Storehouse, warehouse, named after the military stores then at the end of the street towards #Tehnika, which now seem to be occupied by an #Estonian defence agency.
#Military #Sõjaline
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Further west was an old #Jewish cemetery in the fork at the southern end of #Magasini and, lastly, NW is the location of the former #Catholic cemetery, due W of a street once known as #Surnuaia with all its attendant variations that you can read about here: #Staadioni.
#Cemeteries #Kalmistud
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#Toonela (Toonela)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Juhkentali
Realm of the dead, exact location uncertain. #Toone is either ‘ancestor’ or ‘realm of the dead’, too. In fact, this street leads SW to Tallinn’s cemetery area, bounded by #Filtri, #Magasini and #Herne.
#Death #Surm
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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On the Dune / Sand-drifts, an ideal place for rope-making. Dissected by a railway line, the northern part now leads to the ‘Patarei’, converted into Tallinn’s #CentralPrison in 1919, now disused following its merger with Tallinn’s other prison at #Magasini 35 (2003), built on a 1944-1949...
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