Courtyard behind the house on Brookusplats, on the corner of Olevimägi and Vene streets in Tallinn.

OK, running out of photos here... Fire escape in the courtyard behind the house on Brookusplats, on the corner of Olevimägi and Vene streets in Tallinn.

archives have a testament of another #VolmarBrockhusen dating back to 1548, the #KNAB has no relevant records for the 200 years following the previous local naming of nearby #Sulevimägi, #deIserenDore, i.e. 1529-1732. Either way, the name has a long and somewhat mongrel pedigree.
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Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Sulevimägi on it.

View of Sulevimägi, Tallinn.

#Sulevimägi (Sulevimägi)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Sulev’s mountain or hill. Prolongs #Olevimägi, with a similar history revolving around nearby #Brookusplats. Began its career as de Iseren Doer (1471), tor Iseren Doren (1481), de Iseren Dore (1529) from MLG iser(n), isen, iron,
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sac (sack, bag) from OHG (see #Sulevimägi), and either kuđđan from OHG/OLG(?) or kǖdel (pouch) from MLG, leading to Eng. cod, i.e. scrotum (think ‘codpiece’), and kotti in certain dialects of #Finland, land of gender equality: scrotum, uterus or placenta];
#GenderEquality #SoolineVõrdõiguslikkus
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de isern doere, #MLG for ‘iron door’, in the 15-16th C which may be a conflation with the same in #Sulevimägi. Following this, few records until 1732 when the #Brookus name appears: der Brocks-Berg in #German and prooks mäggi in old-style #Estonian.
#History #Ajalugu
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