Ciao amici! Il mio fratellino e la sua fidanzata sono attualmente a Tallinn e mi piacerebbe sorprenderli con l’indirizzo d’infanzia di nostra nonna. Ho la sua carta d’identità, ma faccio fatica a capire dove abitasse esattamente. Soprattutto perché i tempi sono cambiati notevolmente dal 1927 e non sono esattamente aggiornato sulle mie mappe storiche di Tallinn, dell’Estonia o dei distretti amministrativi attuali/storici. Fondamentalmente sono relativamente inutile a parte le ricerche su Google (che in inglese non ti porta molto lontano). Se qualcuno di voi potesse aiutarmi e darmi qualche indicazione per risolvere questo enigma, sarebbe molto apprezzato.
https://i.redd.it/jw38zg0pu6bg1.jpeg
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If the house numbering hasn’t changed, then this house
https://maps.app.goo.gl/1qicDqcs6VghMa9V6
The place is here: [https://maps.app.goo.gl/J4zGvAzRmD6QYtps5](https://maps.app.goo.gl/J4zGvAzRmD6QYtps5)
The house (J. Vilmsi 5a) was in ruins in 1993.
https://preview.redd.it/laqnjruqw6bg1.png?width=880&format=png&auto=webp&s=988d1ed5dd0c6d30fe1b3af6ce6b54ea1b2d2019
EDIT: Here’s the house in 1965 – [https://xgis.maaamet.ee/xgis2/page/link/ACJ0IUm](https://xgis.maaamet.ee/xgis2/page/link/ACJ0IUm)
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It looks like Wilmsi. There is a street named Vilmsi in Kadriorg. Jüri Vilms was a politician who was involved with Estonian independence in 1918. Maybe the name was with “w” back in the day.
Jüri Vilmsi street 5. Unfortunately it’s an extremely ugly modern office building from 1998.
This is what the house no 5 looked
https://preview.redd.it/b4vxj47px6bg1.png?width=1519&format=png&auto=webp&s=3615155b54b752bf12258713ca4a2a728c352ada
I think it’s supposed to be Wilmsi Street 5-5, meaning the house number is 5 and apartment number is also 5.
And Wilmsi street is most likely Jüri Vilmsi Street (it was also named that in 1927), because V was very often and usually written as W in those days. I can even find old newspaper articles that spell it like that and that talk about Jüri Wilms, not Vilms like it’s written today. Distric 2 also seems to fit.
Unfortunately Vilmsi Street 5 is a relatively modern business building nowadays, built in 1998. The old house is destroyed.
https://www.ra.ee/dgs/_purl.php?shc=TLA.1483.2.19:256
But as we can find out from these address records, Asta was most likely born at Jakobsoni Street 20, then on 12.01.1924 they moved to Vilmsi Street 5a, and at the end of the year on 23.12.1924 they already moved to Kirikuaia 8
https://www.ra.ee/apps/aadresslehed/index.php/sheet/view?id=291350 https://www.ra.ee/apps/aadresslehed/index.php/sheet/view?id=291351 https://www.ra.ee/apps/aadresslehed/index.php/sheet/view?id=291340