Karunki

Karunki [ kɑruŋki ] ( swedish Karungi ) is a village in the city of Tornio in northern Finland. By 1973 Karunki formed its own community, which included the northern part of present-day urban area of ​​Tornio.

Geography

Karunki is located in the rural northern part Tornios to the bank of river Tornio ( Torne älv ). At the point of Karunki the Tornionjoki is extended seeartig. On the opposite bank of the same name lies Swedish place Karungi. In Statistical Area Karunki around 650 people. The former Kirchdorf Karunki thanks of the local services ( shops, bank, gas station) to be a center for the surrounding villages.

History

While the membership of today's Finland to Sweden, the two towns were on both sides of Tornionjoki a single village. Originally belonged to the parish place to Alatornio, from which it was released in 1745 as a chapel community. As 1809 was set by the Fredrikshamn Tornionjoki as the border between Sweden and the belonging to Russia Grand Duchy of Finland in the contract, Karunki was divided into a Swedish and Finnish part. 1815-1817 was the Finnish Karunki own church. In 1973, the community was incorporated along with Karunki Alatornio in the city of Tornio.