Brookusplats (0)
Actually Brookusplats (Brookus square). Latinized name of Brockhusen, name associated with ownership of various properties in the northern end of Tallinn old-town (Pikk, Lai, Laboratooriumi...). Various candidates: Kivi suggests an 18th-C alderman Volmar Brockhusen which matches the earliest recorded use of the name for nearby Olevimägi – der Brocks-Berg and its old-style Estonian spelling of prooks mäggi – in 1732, but while Tallinn archives have a testament of another Volmar Brockhusen dating back to 1548, the KNAB has no relevant records for the 200 years following the previous local naming of nearby Sulevimägi, de Iseren Dore, i.e. 1529-1732. Either way, the name has a long and somewhat mongrel pedigree. First, given the spelling variations in the records (e.g. Bruckhusen, Brůckhusen & Bruckkusen) and the actual place name, it could apply to a variety of local landowners. In Nottbeck, for example, a transcription of early records rife with erratic spelling, the names Johannes Brüker and Johannis Bruckhusen are both mentioned for 1383, and the same Brüker (?) was written Broker, Bruker and Brůker between 1376-86. The earliest record seems to be 1319 for Ludolph Brogere and his son Nicolaus. Without allowing my neck to go full-turtle, it is possible that the name of the locale reflects a family rather than a specific person, but without clearer records, hard to say.