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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Entry to courtyard behind house on Brookusplats, on the corner of Olevimägi and Vene streets in Tallinn.

From the courtyard behind the house on Brookusplats, on the corner of Olevimägi and Vene streets in Tallinn, looking towards Sulevimägi.

Various candidates: #Kivi suggests an 18th-C alderman #VolmarBrockhusen which matches the earliest recorded use of the name for nearby #Olevimägi – der Brocks-Berg and its old-style #Estonian spelling of prooks mäggi – in 1732, but while Tallinn
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