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Title: Door of the House of Blackheads Guild
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At Pikk 26, in Tallinn, Estonia.

Description:

The House of Blackheads is the meeting house of the Brotherhood of Blackheads, the assembly of unmarried merchants in the Hanseatic cities of the Baltic. The brotherhood was only active in Old Livonia (Estonia and Latvia) and it was unique in Europe. After joining, the guild's career led the most successful merchants often in the City Council. The name is derived from the Holy Mauritius, always depicted as dark-skinned saint of the brotherhood. The by far best known Blackheads House is located on the town hall square in Riga.

The one in Tallinn has a beautifully carved portal. The facade of the house is held in the style of the Dutch Renaissance of the 16th Century. At the height of the ground floor are the arms of the Hanseatic Warehouses Bruges, Novgorod , London and Bergen. The Brotherhood existed from 1400 until 1940 in Talllinn and since then still active in Germany. The Russian Tsars Peter the Great, Paul and Alexander I were honorary members of the fraternity and have visited this house.

Keywords: door, facade
Image data
Image sizes: 2167*3361px, 2089kb
Origin: Originally a digital image, with postprocessing
Date/Time: 20101007-102924
Camera: Canon EOS 350D DIGITAL
Iso: 100
Speed: 1/50s
Aperture: F5.0
Focal length: 22.0mm
Aperture: 35mm
Position coordinates:WGS84 LONG 24.7466209531°, LAT 59.4389781677°
Destination coordinates;WGS84 LONG 24.7467362881°, LAT 59.438931799° (Tallinna Mustpeade Maja)
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Author: Alexandra Medwedeff
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