Bremeni torn (Bremen) 
Bremen, former Hanseatic town in Germany. But apparently its original name might have been Bremertorn after a local resident (or a documentary misreading?). Bremeni torn was a prison in the mid 15th C, known then as Bremen de vangen torne (Bremen the prison tower), and used thus until the 17th C. See also Eppingi torn.
Bremeni käik (Bremen)
Bremen, former Hanseatic town in NW Germany. Known as Бремени проход (Bremeni prokhod, or passage) in Russian. There seems to be no record of this alleyway being named until the city’s 1996 wide-ranging decision to either name unnamed locations – including Katariina käik, Kai and others – or eradicate and rename signs of the city’s former involuntary Sovietisation, for example: Vabastajate väljak (Liberators’ Square) replaced by Tõnismäe haljak; Pioneeride väljak (Pioneers’ Square) by Politseiaed; and Komsomoli väljak (Komsomol Square) by Uue Maailma haljak.
Fišmeistri (Fišmeister)
Street no longer exists, but listed as an example of some of the spellings that Tallinn streetnames can undergo: Vismestere (1515), Fischmeistri, Fišmeistri, Vissmeistri, wiskmeister (1732), Fischmeister, Vischmeyster, Висмейстри & Фишмейстре / Фишмейстеръ (Vismeystri / Fishmeystre). Writing and written records can do only pale justice to the infinite variety of sounds the ear can hear and mouth and memory can reproduce, a drop in the ocean of language history. See Rannamõisa & Vismeistri.
Köismäe (Köismägi) 
Rope hill, named after a former locality of that name specialised in its manufacture, the German equivalent of which is Hamburg’s well-known Reeperbahn meaning “long, open space for rope-making” (MLG rēpærebāne composed of: a) rēpære, sail-maker, from rēp, rope, cord, strand, etc., cf. mod. Ger. Reep (cf. Eng. rope), used only today by sailors, while Seil, a modern term for rope (alongside Tau), from sēl cognate with sēgel, mod Ger. Segel (sail) seems to have shifted meaning from sail to rope, as did ‘sheet’ in Eng. (see Soodi), and b) ‑bahn, which has nothing to do with today’s ‘station’ (although it is the same root) but from MLG bāne, bān meaning “(long/wide), open space” (see Suur-Patarei and Luite). The põik and tee have gone the way of all stone and all that remains is a tower at Laboratooriumi 27 in the old city wall.
