Pelgulinn

Pelgulinn is a municipality (Estonian asum ) of the Estonian capital Tallinn. He is one of the districts of the district Põhja -Tallinn ( "North -Tallinn ").

Location, history, architecture

The district is located about two kilometers northwest of the city center, beyond the railway tracks in proximity to the Baltic station. The district has 14,606 inhabitants ( 2008).

Even in the 18th century, the area outside the city proper consisted mainly of meadows and forests. It was used by people with dubious reputation as a hiding place, often criminals and outcasts. Pelgulinn literally means " Street ".

End of the 19th century was created as a municipality for workers Pelgulinn. Many of them were employed in the construction of the rail link between Paldiski, Tallinn and the Russian capital Saint Petersburg. End of the 19th century, a depot and a workshop for locomotives were founded in Pelgulinn. With the advance of industrialization Tallinn more factories were added.

The image of the district is still dominated by the simple, mostly two-storey workers wooden houses with basement and a loft. Numerous historicist and Art Nouveau buildings from the turn of the 19 have survived to the 20th century.

Pelgulinn developed in the 1920s and 1930s as a relatively green suburb on. In 1925, a closed block of flats for municipal employees. During this period, numerous double and quadruple houses were built. Between 1936 and 1939 the Bethel Church ( 1906-2002 ) built according to plans of the German - Estonian architect Eugen Sacharias.

During the Soviet occupation of Estonia, some multi-storey buildings and public facilities were added to the cityscape Pelgulinnas. Since the 1960s, the high school of Pelgulinn exists. The impressive building was built in the post- Stalinist style 1958-1963.

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