Beer House; Dunkri tn 5, 10123 Tallinn, Estonia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=59.4369165%2C24.743681&query_place_id=ChIJSUYScmKTkkYRsa6Kz2QyQN0

#Dunkri (Hans Dunker, 16th C)
Although Dunker is an old Germanic name for someone who lived near a swamp – pretty much applicable to anyone in #Estonia – It seems this was a 16th‑C merchant, originally from #Lübeck, prime city of the...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
#Eponyms #Eponüümid
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So the best part about being in Tallinn, Estonia, last week was obviously watching my son graduate from uni. But the SECOND best part was finally experiencing the white nights, when the sun barely sets before rising again. Took the pic on the left at 11 pm, the one on the right at 3 am. Wicked cool.

#boden in #RaekojaTänav and #Dunkri, for more details, see #Kinga.

#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Food #Toit
#Industry #Tööstus
#Commerce #Kaubandus
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
#History #Ajalugu
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#Vana Tooma (Vana Toomas)
#Historical #Ajalooline
#OldThomas. Named after the character on the weather-vane on top of the #Raekoja plats spire. #SovietOccupation renaming (1963-1987) of #Dunkri, although what political message they were sending out is not sure.

#FolkCulture #RahvaKultuur

Dominiiklaste (Dominiiklased [pl.])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Dominican friars (Sing.: #Dominiiklane), see #Katoliku. Neither this location nor the next, #Dunkri, appear in Kivi’s #TallinnaTänavad of 1972. Although today this is a #hoov (from Ger. #Hof, courtyard), it used to be
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location W of Dunkri, Rataskaevu 6 has been suggested, moving to Niguliste 6 sometime between 1346-83. First known as brevis #rega iuxta forum, Latin cum MLG for short narrow passageway off the main square (1368), or plain old brevis rega (1373-75, etc.) then Korte reghe bi dem mar(c)kte (1392),
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Previously #Tähe, (1908-1959) aka #Sternstraße (not to be confused with #Dunkri) (1907-?), reappearing in 1942 after the III Reich’s February 2nd declaration that #German was now the official state language in the #besetztenOstgebiete or Occupied Eastern Territories.
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the mint was at #Niguliste 6, stretching north to abut onto Dunkri. However, in the 2nd half of the 15th C, the name started shifting again, and now it seems definitely along the lines of #Sternestrate achter munte (1463), sternestrate (1469 & 1489), and strate achter der munte (1478),
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“opposite the well on the road to Saint Nicholas’”, a point he emphasizes by his comment in the appendix, vielleicht derselbe, perhaps the same one, presumably the #Rataskaev well. In which case the platea would refer to #Rataskaevu, not Dunkri. In 1439, it was recorded as
#Wells #Kaevud
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