Kohtu (Kohus)

Law court, tribunal. First named Gerichtsstraße (court street) in 1882, after the Eestimaa ülemmaakohus or Supreme Court of Estonia which operated in the former Eestimaa Rüütelkonna maja, or House of Estonian Knighthood. Due, probably, to a nasty squabble with the French and others on the happy highway to Jerusalem during the 1^st Crusade, German knights and other second-sons sought other sites for land-grabbing and went north to save the poor, pagan Livonians. The Brothers of the Sword and their later homies occupied Estonia from the 13^th C, remaining in power through Danish, Swedish and Russian occupations, elevating themselves to Estonian Knighthood and filling nigh-on all magistratures.