Latest posts tagged with #Kassisaba on Bluesky
#Mailase (Mailane)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kose
Probably #harilikmailane (i.e. common or garden mailane), heath or common #speedwell, common #gypsyweed, Paul’s betony, #VeronicaOfficinalis, aka #hundihambarohi, lit. wolf’s tooth medicine (see also #Kassisaba). One of a meadow flower or grass group.
Alleyway between these two buildings and the one to their left; designated as 'Loode põik' off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
Similar view of the alleyway between these two buildings and the one to their left; designated as 'Loode põik' off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
Builder's barrier in front of entrance to 'Loode põik', off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
Second house in the 'alley' representing 'Loode põik', off Loode tänav, Tallinn.
#Loode põik (Loe)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
When is a põik not a põik?
Likely to end up as #Ahju, a private alley with only a couple of houses. For now (2025), gated only by a builder's barrier. Se.e also #Loode
Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Koidu.
View along Koidu, Tallinn, from the Paldiski maantee end.
Glum mid-1900s (?) apartment block in Koidu, Tallinn.
Old and new buildings in Koidu, Tallinn.
#Koidu (Koit)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba #UusMaailm
Dawn, aurora. Part of the dawn and dusk triad. See #Ao.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
Streetsign with the streetname Toompuiestee (Cathedral Avenue) on it.
#Toompuiestee (Toompuiestee)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kelmiküla #Kassisaba #Vanalinn
Cathedral avenue. Renamed under #SovietOccupation (1961-1989) as #Gagarini J..
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
Plaque commemorating Estonian composerr Artur Kapp's "Soviet" achievements...
Plaque commemorating Estonian composerr Artur Kapp's residence in the street now bearing his name from 1934 to 1944
#Kapi A. (Artur Kapp, 1878-1952)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
Composer and organ virtuoso, born in #SuureJaani (Big John’s), one-time director of the #AstrakhanMusicSchool and leader of the Estonian Academic Society of Music Artists.
#TimeToUpdateThePlaque!
#Musician #Muusik
Streetsign with the streetname Kevade (Spring) on it.
#Kevade (Kevad)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
Spring (season). Also title of first volume of classic Estonian #filmtrilogy – Kevade, #Suvi & #Sügis (with English subtitles), based on novels of the same name by #OskarLuts (1887-1953). He also wrote a fourth, #Talve, which was not filmed.
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Streetsign with the streetname Luise on it.
#Luise (Luise)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
After the nearby summer estate called #Luisental, after #LouiseVonSteinheil, owner in 1791. By this time, #France was on its 16th #RoiLouis, and the name had had plenty of time to become fashionable.
#ManorHouses #Mõisad
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
b) #Estonia has had at least half a dozen farms or bits of village called #Kassisaba anyway, hardly fighting stuff. It is almost certainly a legacy confusion with the #German #Schanze, ‘sconce’ in English, which is indeed an
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#Kassisaba (Kassisaba) #Asum
#Tallinn #Kesklinn
Lit. cat’s tail. The name of the district is often accused of coming from a German military term #Katze for an elevated #bastion (none found) , and the road leading from it as its tail (Ger. #Schwanz, which also
#FolkEtymology #Rahvaetümoloogia
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Picture of yours truly in Pikk, Tallinn, with Pikk Jalg in the background.
Out and about visiting #Tallinn!
'Fieldwork', they call it...
#Vanalinn pretty much "done".
Yesterday and the day before were #Kassisaba and now stepping into the wilds of #Kelmiküla.
If anyone fancies a coffee or a chat, My DMs are open!
Or if you spot me wandering around, say "Hi!"
#Villardi (?)
Uncertain, known as Willase in 1875 after local peasant farmer Karl Willase (from willane/villane, woollen?) or Wilas, but recorded as Villari in an 1885 Tallinn guide book.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba #Uus Maailm
#Unexplained #Seletamatu
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#Paldiski (?)
Town, port, and former #Soviet nuclear submarine training center close to #Tallinn...
#Kesklinn #PõhjaTallinn #Kristiine #Haabersti #Kassisaba #Kelmiküla #Pelgulinn #Lilleküla #Lille #Marja #Merimetsa #Mustjõe #Haabersti #Veskimetsa #Pikaliiva #VäikeÕismäe #Astangu #Mäeküla
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#Adamsoni A. (Amandus Heinrich Adamson, 1855-1929)
Sculptor, studied in Paris (1887-1891) under #Carpeaux, and in #Italy. Creator of the #Russalka monument using his 17-year-old girlfriend as model.
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
#Art #Kunst
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#Loite (Loide)
Fire, blaze. In this particular case, a solar flare. A checkered history: Lessingi*, #Lessingstraße, Лессингская ул., from 1884-1938, then Leegi, also fire, blaze...
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Kassisaba
* Nothing, I'm sure, to do with Dorris Lessing's 1962 "Golden Notebook" 🙂
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