Liminka

Liminka [ limiŋkɑ ] (Swedish Limingo ) is a municipality in the north of Finland. It is located about 30 km south of the city of Oulu in Northern Ostrobothnia landscape. Liminka is exclusively Finnish speakers.

Overview

The settlement areas are next to the Kirchdorf Liminka the places Alatemmes and Tupos. In addition there are the villages of the municipality of Heini Järvi, Hirvineva, Kedonperä, Ketunmaa, Kiiskilänkylä, Lapinkangas, Liminka, Rantakylä, Ritokorpi, Selkämaa, Tikkaperä and Virkkula.

The village was built around 1300 and Liminka is one of the oldest settlements in the Finnish to the early modern era populated by semi-nomadic living seed region. Since 1477 Liminka was as parish administrative center of a large area that extended to the intra- Finnish Kajaani. In the following centuries the area Liminkes became smaller and smaller, as many places as the later city of Oulu were ecclesiastically and politically independent with a growing population.

The built in neoclassical style church (Carl Ludwig Engel ) comes from 1826th The rectory is the largest in Finland.

The largest part of the municipal area is used for agriculture. Over the centuries, the forests have been largely cleared, drained lakes and marshes.

Named after the city bay Liminganlahti is one of the most important bird areas in Finland. Among others, here maintains the WWF a wait.

Presbytery of Liminka

Station Liminka

Policy

Parish council

As is common in northern Finland, the Centre Party is in Liminka the dominant political force. At the municipal election in 2012, she received nearly 60 percent of the vote in the council puts 21 out of 35 deputies. The other two major parties of the country, the conservative National Coalition Party and the Social Democrats play a subordinate role with four and three seats in the municipal council. Also represented in the municipal council, the right-wing populist True Finns and the Left Alliance, each with three seats, and the Green collar with a deputy.