to #Kopli). In 1865, the #GeneralKarteDerStadtReval presents an almost complete union of the two islands into a single unit, perhaps connected by #sandbanks or #shoals, of about 2km² about 300 m from the mainland and by the time the #RussianMilitary mapped #Tallinn in 1900 the #peninsula had
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we will return). About 2000 years ago, #Kopli was half peninsula and half island, and #Paljassaar was represented by maybe half an inch of Suur-Karli, at low tide. One thousand years later, Kopli had grown into a fully-formed #peninsula and #VäikeKarli was a few hundred meters long, which
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not even there. Neither was #Tallinn. #Kopli began appearing about 4-5000 years ago, and #Paljassaar only came into existence a 100-odd years ago, emerging first from two islands, #SuurKarli and #VäikeKarli, or der große Karl and der kleine Karl (big & little Charles, they say, a point to which
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View along Meeruse street, Tallinn, towards Kopliranna from the sea. The street is unpaved, pot-holed, escorted by temporary building-site railings and not quite the ideal location for a new LVMH retail outlet catering to the Asian market. History will prove me wrong.
South-eastern end of Meeruse street, Tallinn. Once (upon a time?) this eco-section of the street led through the bushes and beer bottles to join the NW strip closer to signs of civilisation and shipping. The gate, barrier and surroundings are almost completely concealed by fresh and verdant vegetation.
Entrance - closed until further notice - to the north-western end of Meeruse street, Tallinn. Closer to the port entrance, it still denies the dominical pleasure of portuary promenade. However, the image does reveal some interesting and well-aligned brickwork of a building not yet engulfed by the encroaching greenery.
Highlight - if you will excuse the totally unintended pun - of one's expedition to Meeruse street, Tallinn. I'faith, it is a miniature, yet 3 or 4 meter-high, lighthouse or beacon on the shore warning itinerant Viking or Barbary pirates that little but rocks and occasional colza farm-escapees are to be had.
#Meeruse (?)
#Update #Värskendus
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Who knows? Said to be named after the mercurial Meeruse lõug (see #Lõuka) and kari (see #Kari) in its happy herring haven opposite, but no such record has been found… Given my sobering
Read More:
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Old enamel Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kopli on a brown wooden fence with leafy background.
Traditional old wood-panelled house in Kopli, Tallinn with decorative window motifs either side of the main door and a beautifully unkempt garden in front.
This looks like what may once have been a semi-underground storage cellar for potatos and other staples. Found in a Kopli apartment garden in Tallinn.
Apartment house in Kopli, Tallinn, with curved brick 3-storey façade flanked by wood-panelling.
#Kopli (Koppel) #Asum
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn
#Enclosure, #paddock, run. Its current name is deceptive as to its history. A koppel is indeed a paddock (but also...
Read more: tallinnstreets.com/en/kopli
And I hope you do read more. I'd love to see what you think!
#Meeruse (Meerus?)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Relatively new street (2009) named after the Meeruse bay and skerry (see #Kari), and landward, fortunately, of #MeeruseSadam (harbor). What the name means is unclear. It could poss. mean mayorlike, but why? Or sealike, but even whyer? Anyone? #Help!
#Karbiküla (0)
#Historical #Ajalooline
Lit. ±‘boxville’, a former neighborhood squished between #Kopli, #Sitsi and #Sõle on plots upon which houses were required to occupy less than 20-25% of the area, resulting in their own particular style.
#TallinnHistory #TallinnaAjalugu
#UusMaleva (Uus-Malev)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
New-Army (see #Maleva).
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Military #Sõjaline
#Lahepea (Lahepea)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Merimetsa
Over/On top of the bight, gulf, cove, inlet (Bight heights?...). After former village on the #Kopli bay. Nothernmost section the #Kõrgepinge bicycle- and foot-path. See #Lahe.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#Geography #Geograafia
today are some 350 years old, they are dwarfed by the #TuhandeaastaneTamm (thousand-year-old oak) that used to grow beside #Kopli beach. The similarity of #Gaulish #tanno, holm oak, to #Estonian is fortuitous.
NB: Since this is the 24th time we use this word and since we always try
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#Lahepea (Lahepea)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Merimetsa
Over the bight, gulf, cove, inlet (Bight heights?...). After former village on the #Kopli bay. Nothernmost section the #Kõrgepinge bicycle- and foot-path. See #Lahe.
#Municipalities #Omavalitsused
#VillageName #KülaNimi
#Geology #Geoloogia
A black-and-white photo showing a large historic building with a tall central tower and flag, standing on a rise above trees and fields. Tall grass in the foreground and blurred trees add softness and motion, while the sky with light clouds creates a calm, open atmosphere.
Time flie
📷 The Russo Baltic shipyard
#estonia #tallinn #kopli #historic #urban #landscape #architecture #photography
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#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
2nd line. Like 1. liin, two parallel thoroughfares. All 5 liinid were named or renamed in 1951 (quick Est. #grammar lesson: most plurals tack a -d onto the #genitive, so where #liin is the #nominative and #liini is the genitive, the plural becomes #liinid).
The photo shows Tallinn’s Old Town skyline with its mix of medieval church spires, the onion domes of Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, the “STANDARD” factory building, and the old industrial chimneys, all under a misty sky. The contrast between the historic Old Town, Soviet-era industry, and modern glass towers is very typical of Tallinn’s layered character.
Autumn shadows of Tallinn
📷 Kopli Hill
#estonia #tallinn #kopli #cityscape #historic #architecture #phoography
and running from the law has never been that special, unless you happen to be the runner yourself. What would strike one, however, would be the numerous chimney-stacks associated with the brick and tile industry of the (spreading?) #Kopli area, and #MHG #kamīn, #kemīn, deriving from
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#Talli (Tall)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Tondi
Stable, stall, barn. Named after the stables of a former military barracks. Part of the Tondi military school group, see #Marsi. Has also been (unconvincingly) proposed as possible component in the #etymology of Tallinn, see #Kopli and next entry, #Tallinna.
by special decree in 1945). The former #Kalinin District of #Tallinn covered roughly the present-day Districts of #PõhjaTallinn and #Haabersti. The questionably-legitimate #Russian exclave of #Kaliningrad/#Königsberg is named after him, for now… #SovietOccupation renaming (1950-1990) of #Kopli.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Alasi.
View along Alasi, Tallinn, in the Kopliranna direction.
Line of modern apartment blocks in Alasi, Tallinn.
The ultimate estonian wet dream: a group of wooden log-huts, full to the core of the outer arcs of offcut wood that cannot be shaped into useful building material.
#Alasi (Alasi)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Anvil, or what used to be called a stithy, stiddy, stedy, etc.. Appropriately, crosses #Vasara, causing a rather mixed (separatist?) political metaphor.
#Farming #Põllumajandus
#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Neeme põik.
View along Neeme põik, Tallinn, in the direction of... the end of Neeme põik.
Teepee or preparatory bonfire materials supply unit in Neeme põik, Tallinn.
House and Garden, à la Neeme põik, Tallinn.
#Neeme [põik] (Neem)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Offshoot of Neeme itself, one of the 40-odd% of Tallinn põigid (põiks, for Eng. readers) that does not connect to a second street.
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Maleva.
View along Maleva, Tallinn, in one direction or the other.
Mini-Versailles-esque alleyway to someone's house in Maleva, Tallinn.
Unbuilt property in Maleva, Tallinn. Nothing but grass and greenery.
#Maleva (Malev)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Force, troop, archaic term for army, or military levy (13th C). Military unit of the #Kaitseliit, or #EstonianDefenseLeague, originally an #underground movement created during the #GermanOccupation in #WWI, and acting as #NationalGuard in the
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Klaasi.
View of the slipway near Klaasi, Tallinn, built in the 1910s as Russia was waking up and rearming after the disastrous destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet in the Battle of Tsushima in 1905. The slipway is probably the only one of its slze still in existence.
View of shipworks in Bekkeri Sadam, sorta near Klaasi, Tallinn, photographed through the perimeter fencing.
Tulip in View in Klaasi, Tallinn.
#Klaasi (Klaas)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Glass. After nearby glass factory. Anagram of #Kaisla, the bulk of which now essentially within the borders of the #Bekkeri Sadam customs-zone.
#Harbor #Sadam
#Maritime #Merendus
#Tööstus #Industry
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Sirbi.
View along Sirbi, Tallinn, from the Kopliranna direction.
House festooned with climbing-plants and greenery in Sirbi, Tallinn.
View of the Stroomi Rand (Stroomi beach), aka Pelgurand, shoreline from the end of Sirbi, Tallinn.
#Sirbi (Sirp)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Sickle. Where we say hammer and sickle, they say sirp ja vasar (see #Vasara).
#SovietOccupation #NõukogudeOkupatsioon
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#Engineering #Tehnika
Image taken from Google maps of an approximately 300- by 150-meter, 0.3-hectare garage zone in Kopli, Tallinn.
Central alley of what I call the Paljassaare garaaziküla (Paljassaare garage city) in Kopli, Tallinn. If anyone knows another name, please advise, thanks!
One of the 1000+ garages in what I call the Paljassaare garaaziküla (Paljassaare garage city) in Kopli, Tallinn. If anyone knows another name, please advise, thanks!
Ethical issue: image of random garage on Paljassaare garaaziküla where some men are repairing two-wheelers. They were obviously unaware of my principle to never show people's obviously-recognizable faces outside crowd situations and demanded, with a certain threat of in-your-face violence, that I delete the photograph. Being nicely pedantic, I did delete it, but did not inform them that I would undelete it afterwards. So here it is. PS: if anyone has had a scooter stolen recently, I have a number plate.
Paljassaare Garaaziküla (0)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
There are the seven wonders of the world, with pyramids and hanging-gardens, there is beautiful architecture and elegant tree-lined streets, there are malls and monuments to human endeavor, and there is this bizarre pattern on a map...
Pre-sunset view of Kopli mägi (Kopli hill) in Kopli, Tallinn.
View of the docks (which ones, however, I do not know) from Kopli mägi (Kopli hill) in Kopli, Tallinn.
View from Kopli mägi (Kopli hill) in Kopli, Tallinn.
View up the precipitous north face of Kopli mägi (Kopli hill) in Kopli, Tallinn.
#Kopli mägi
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Here we go again with #EstonianMountains! This one, apparently, a landfill converted to a park. Lovely views at the top.
Chapel at the entrance to Kopli kalmistupark (cemetery gardens / park) on Pelguranna, Tallinn.
Lateral alley in Kopli kalmistupark (cemetery gardens / park) in Tallinn.
Paved-over, circular hub between various paths in Kopli kalmistupark (cemetery gardens / park) in Tallinn.
An abundance of trees, bushes and unmowed grass in Kopli kalmistupark (cemetery gardens / park) in Tallinn.
#Kopli kalmistupark
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Following the #MoscowPlagueRiot of 1771, #CatherineTheGreat ordered all burials to be outside town centers. The #Ziegelskoppel cemetery was created in 1774, and destroyed by the #Soviets in the early 50s.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Vasara.
View along Vasara, Tallinn, from the Kopli direction.
Green house hidden among the trees in Vasara, Tallinn.
View of the pilot house of a container ship between a building and container at the seaward end of Vasara, Tallinn.
#Vasara (Vasar)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Hammer. Which also, appropriately, crosses #Sirbi.
#SovietOccupation #NõukogudeOkupatsioon
#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Neeme.
House somewhat overgrown with greenery in Neeme, Tallinn.
Man returning home from shopping in the outer recesses of Neeme, Tallinn.
Fish drying in a garden in Neeme, Tallinn.
#Neeme (Neem)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Cape, headland, foreland. Located at the base of the ‘U’ between Kopli and #Paljassaare. No relation to the patriarch of #Estonian conductors (music, not buses) #NeemeJärvi.
#Geography #Geograafia
#Maritime #Merendus
View along Marati, Tallinn, from the Kopli direction.
Quarter-bubble made from Perspex outside an artist’s studio in Marati, Tallinn.
Building-works in Marati, Tallinn, showing the business end of an excavator in the foreground, and unfinished apartment block in the middle-ground, and an as-yet unidentified tower in the background.
Tallinn street sign displaying the name Marati.
#Marati (Jean-Paul Marat, 1743-1793)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Swiss-born French revolutionary,
possible inventor of a cure for #gonorrhea, friend of #AngelikaKauffmann,
murdered in bathtub by #CharlotteCorday. Clothing factory named after him by #Sovietized workers.
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Kopliranna.
View along Kopliranna, Tallinn, from the ESE direction (Sirbi tänav).
Modern housing in Kopliranna, Tallinn.
Alleyway towards the sea in Kopliranna, Tallinn.
Kopliranna (Koplirand)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Kopli beach. Formerly known as #Koplirand, which only goes to show what a fresh kerbstone in the right place can do to your genitives.
#Geography #Geograafia
#Maritime #Merendus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
