SOUP TOWN HALL 

Enriko Talvistu: Supilinna uus raekoda

But now a new town hall has been built in Supilinna. Rein Rohtla, a somewhat scandalous hotel businessman from Tammelinna who became famous a quarter of a century ago (who also took the bohemian crowd Aleksander Müller to see Paris), acquired Tähtvere 48 after several economic and other collapses. At that time it was a well-known single-storey wooden building with its street.

The patriots and romantics of Soup City considered it a real symbol of the district, an example of a sunken decay, and looked forward to the restoration of this ruin.

However, the apparently confident bohemian and eccentric Rohtla demolished it and built a new house instead. The building that eroded the brush of such sincere Supilin residents, who had already built their own positions by that time, was essentially a city-type community and society, as well as the city government, which, for fear of the Supilin residents, refused to grant a building permit for such a three-storey building without official approval.

Rohtla was, of course, forced to change something in order to legalize the house, but in fact his house looks the most complete. It is precisely this rebellion, bohemianism, self-creation and self-construction that many former Supillians are crying for.

He now built a veranda tower next to the house, the roof of which is crowned by a reduced-volume copy of the malting tower of a brewery made of wood and sheet metal. Rohtla has promised to start hoisting blue-black-white at the top of the anthem every morning. Not like the brewery in its tower with the flag of A. Le Coq or the flag of the Supilinn district. He rightly claims that his house is actually located in Tähtvere, not in Supilinn, according to the division of districts. The dividing line of the city districts runs along the axis of Tähtvere Street.

However, the inhabitants of Tähtvere on the hill have more than one of them, which tower of the town hall the sub-inhabitants of Supilin prefer. Anyway nice and strong.