#Hobusepea (Hobusepea)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #AllLinn
Horse’s head. Once upon a time, back in the merry 15th C, there lived a man called Hans Hannemann. Hans was a horse trader and, acordingly, the street he lived in became known as
#Trades #Kaubandused
#History #Ajalugu
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#Raiduri (Raidur)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
Cutter. Odd on its own, often found as #kiviraidur, stone-cutter, or #puuraidur, wood-cutter. One of an occupational street-name group. See #Rätsepa.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#Trades #Kaubandused

#Kaubamaja (Kaubamaja)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Südalinn
Department store, lit. ‘purchase house’. Renamed (?-1991), along with #Rävala (1950-1991), as #Lenini during the #SovietOccupation.
#Commerce #Kaubandus
#Trades #Kaubandused
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names

#Ahju (Ahi)
Stove, oven, kiln. For those interested in trivia: one of the two >3‑letter street names whose letters are in alphabetical order (see Hiiu). Started life simply enough in German as #Töpfergasse (1882), potter’s street, apparently after...
#Tallinn#Kesklinn#Tatari
#Trades#Kaubandused
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Name first mentioned in 1522 as #Tiszkeranne (Tiskre beach) and in 1531 as #Diskerkkulle (Tiskre village), from the MLG name Discher, probably related to modern #German #Tischler, carpenter or furniture maker. The river Tiskre runs 4.6 km from #Harku lake to #Kakumäe bay.
#Trades #Kaubandused
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#Pääsukese (Pääsuke[ne])
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Maakri
Swallow, martin. Be that as it may, the name comes from #Schwalbegasse after 19th C property-owner and cabman, #CarlSchwalbe. Schwalbe (Ger.) = pääsuke (Est.) = swallow (Eng.).
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Landowner #Maaomanik
#PersonalName #Isikunimi
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#Vana-Kalamaja (Vana-Kalamaja)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Old Kalamaja. A bit like #Uus-Kalamaja but older. In fact, both created in 1885.
#Fish #Kalad
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Food #Toit
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

Köie (Köis)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Rope, cable. After the former rope-making community of #Köismäe.
#Industry #Tööstus
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Maritime #Merendus
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad

#Kalaranna (Kalarand)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kalamaja
Fish beach, fishing-shore. With a fine view of the sea, until they built a #prison (no longer used, in conversion to museum) in front of it. Long a home to Kalamaja fishermen.
#Fish #Kalad
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Maritime #Merendus

Kaluri (Kalur)
#Tallinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kopli
Fisherman. Named after nearby fishermen’s #kolkhoz.
#Trades #Kaubandused
#Fish #Kalad

schostrate (1374), Schohstrate (?), Schuhstraße (1806), and Schuhgasse (1893). Clearly, a very pedestrian precinct and, presumably, well-cobbled. Interestingly, the shoe ‘shops’ stretched down the street all the way along the western façade of Raekoja plats, as indicated by
#Trades #Kaubandused
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The street eventually became #KannengeterStrate in the 16th C, after the #tinsmiths or #pewterers (see #Tina), gradually climbing the social (and financial) ladder to silver for brooches, ouches (perhaps #ettekenmakeren, see #Ehte), and similar embossed work and thence to
#Trades #Kaubandused
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#DEPn implies an #MLG #Discher origin for #Tischer, equivalent to mod. Ger. #Tischler, carpenter or furniture-maker, but as any Smith, Wright or Fletcher would know, trades often end up as personal names. See #Välja.
#Trades #Kaubandused
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Groß-Batteriestraße (1942), following its earlier appellation of #Köismäe tee / #Reperbahn(straße) or ropemakers’ street. Also, according to TT, once called #НаКосе (Na kose, [nothing to do with Kose] translating as #luitel, see #Luite),
#Trades #Kaubandused
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
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(1614) marginalia alters die #LütkeSchröderStrasse (formerly the Little Tailor’s street). Prior to this (1389), the street was known/described as parva platea sartorum, qua itur de foro ad monachos (little road of the ‘tailors’ [see below], which goes from the market to the
#Trades #Kaubandused
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