Kimitoön
Kimitoön ( swedish ) or Kemiönsaari [ kemiøn ˌ ri ː sɑ ] (Finnish ) is a municipality in the southwestern Finnish landscape Varsinais- Suomi. It was built at the beginning of 2009 by the merger of the municipalities Kimito ( Kemiö ) Dragsfjärd and Västanfjärd.
The municipality is located in the eastern part of the Kimitoön archipelago sea off the southwest coast of Finland covers most of the island Kimitoön and the upstream archipelago of Hitis ( Hiittinen ). Kimitoön, with an area of 524 km ² by Fasta Åland 's main island of Åland, the second largest island in the Finnish Baltic Sea waters and is separated only by narrow straits from the mainland. The area of the municipality is 698.11 km ² (of which 11.00 km ² inland waters). Including marine areas, which extend to the boundary of the Finnish territorial waters, the town has a total area of 2801.25 km ². Neighboring communities of Kimitoön Parga are in the West, Sauvo in the north and in the east of Salo. The main towns of Kimitoön are the Kirchdorf Kimito and Dalsbruk ( Dalsbruk ), the capital of the former municipality Dragsfjärd.
In the community Kimitoön live around 7,300 inhabitants, of which 71.4 % Finland Sweden. Officially Kimitoön is bilingual with Swedish as majority and Finnish as a minority language.
In Kirchdorf of Kimito is the open-air museum Saga Lunds museum and the church of Kimito, a medieval stone church from the 15th century. The Church of Dragsfjärd is a wooden cruciform church from the years 1752-55. The Old Church of Västanfjärd 1759-60 was also built of wood, the new church was built in 1910-12 in the national romantic style of stone. On the island there is a built in 1685-86 Hitis wooden church. The town was built around a Dalsbruk founded in 1686 ironworks around. A special feature of the place is that most of the houses of cinderblock, a by-product of smelting, are built. The oldest surviving buildings date from the 18th century. On the island of Bengtskär is the tallest lighthouse in Finland.
Sons and daughters
- Mikael Gustafsson (born 1966 ), Swedish politician Links