Rotermanni (Christian X Rotermann)

Four-generation dynasty of industrialists called Christian <insert second name here> Rotermann, running businesses as diverse as building materials, department store, factories for iron- and woodworking, raw flax and starch processing, distilling, flour-milling and baking, macaroni, as well as trading grain, buying from as far away as Western Siberia, and trading in the salt stored in the Rotermanni soolaladu, or salt depot, today the Estonian Museum of Architecture. Various scenes from Tarkovski’s film Stalker were shot in present-day Rotermanni Kvartal, and there is now a Stalkeri käik off Hobujaama. Tallinn already had a Solaris shopping mall (opened March 2009)...