Hariduse (Haridus)
Education, training, schooling. After the Ministry of Education which has offices in this street although, with characteristic Estonian flair, the official address is Tõnismägi. Known in the mid-19th C as Vaestepatuste, poor sinners, or Ger. Armesündergasse, condemned man’s alley or ‘dead man walking’, for being the quickest (no pun intended) route from Toompea to Võllamägi, gallows hill. Later, to prevent suspicious characters skulking about (I wasn't born yet), the police asked it to be closed, earning it the name Suletud or Sperrgasse, Closed Street. However, that might have referred only to the section north of present-day Pärnu since the ‘Pharus-Plan Reval’ street map of Tallinn (see Refs) gives it as carrying on south, crossing Ahju as a T-junction and on to Liivalaia.