Jämsänkoski

Jämsänkoski [ jæmsænkɔski ] is a formerly independent city in Finland and now a part of the city Jämsä.

Jämsänkoski located in the countryside of Central Finland in the midst of the Finnish Lake District nine kilometers north of the center of Jämsä. The administrative city of Jämsänkoski included not only the eponymous capital of an area of ​​448.56 km ² (of which 46.81 km ² inland waters). The river flows through Jämsänjoki the area from north to south and expands in its course at various points to Seegröße. Jämsänkoski is on a rapids of Jämsänjoki which the place takes its name ( in Finnish koski means " rapids "). The population Jämsänkoskis was last 7,351.

Jämsänkoski originally belonged to the parish Jämsä. Already in 1792 a sawmill was established at the Jämsänkoski rapids. As industrialization of Finland in the late 19th century, more industrial enterprises, which took advantage of the water power of the rapids settled in Jämsänkoski to 1861 a second sawmill was built in 1888 was followed by a paper mill. 1926, the industrial town was separated as an independent municipality from Jämsä. The community Koskenpää was incorporated in 1969, 1986 Jämsänkoski received its town charter. At the beginning of 2009, Jämsänkoski united again with the city Jämsä.

The wood and paper industry is still the main industry Jämsänkoskis. One of two production sites of the UPM -Kymmene Group Jämsä, which employs almost 1,300 people paper mill, located in Jämsänkoski. Jämsänkoski has a station on the route Orivesi - Jyväskylä where but hold no more passenger trains. Among the attractions of the place include the 1937 -built brick church and the church of Koskenpää from the year 1901.

The orienteer Merja Rantanen was born in 1980 in Jämsänkoski.