Haukipudas
65.17638888888925.352777777778Koordinaten: 65 ° 11 ' N, 25 ° 21' O
Haukipudas [ hɑu̯kipudɑs ] is a place and a former municipality in the north of Finland. Haukipudas located north of the city of Oulu at the mouth of the river Kiiminkijoki in the Gulf of Bothnia. Since 2013 Haukipudas is part of the City of Oulu.
The site covers an area of 1023.68 km2, of which 10.49 km2 inland water area and 573.44 km2 sea water surface. The formerly independent municipality, the municipality had number 084 at the time of dissolution of the municipality on 31 December 2012, it had 19,053 inhabitants, the population density was 43.3 inhabitants. / Km ². The municipality was part of the administrative community Oulu.
Community structure
For the former municipality included several uninhabited islands, islets and sand banks in the Gulf of Bothnia, including Hietakari, Hoikka - Hiue, iso- Hiue, Kattilankalla, Kellon Kraaseli, Kotakari, Kropsu, Laitakari, Lönkytin, Nimetön ( German " Nameless " ) and Santapankki ( " sand Bank "). The 1939 off the island of Kattilankalla sunken steamship SS Telma is a popular destination for amateur divers.
History
The community gained independence in 1866 the municipal and previously belonged to the municipality of Ii. Despite their considerable for North by Finnish standards inhabitants, the municipality did not have a town. Haukipudas maintains partnerships with the cities of Steinheim ( Westfalen) ( Germany ), Busko -Zdrój (Poland), Specchia (Italy ) Szigetszentmiklós (Hungary ), Cesis (Latvia ) and Kronstadt (Russia).
The eponymous capital of the former municipality has about 6,500 inhabitants and is located about 22 km north of Oulu. Is around three kilometers to the railway station of Haukapudas on the route Oulu - Tornio the " village station " (Finnish Asemakylä ) grown. In addition Haukapudas includes the fishing villages Halosenniemi and Kivinniemi and the landward places Santaholma, Ukonkaivos, Martinniemi, Onkamo, Holstinmäki, Häyrysenniemi, Jokikylä, Kalimeenkylä, Kello, Parkumäki, Takkuranta and Virpiniemi.
Were the main industries until the recent past, agriculture and forestry, and fisheries, then Haukipudas has developed in recent decades become a center of high technology; one of the largest employers in the work of the telecommunications group Sanmina SCI.
Culture and sights
The main attraction is the wooden church of the Evangelical congregation. Your free-standing bell tower was built in 1751, the church building itself in the years 1762-64. In its interior there are several well-preserved works of the church painter Mikael Toppelius, including a representation of the Last Supper (1779 ) find. On the outside wall of the church tower, a typical for the landscape Ostrobothnia vaivaisukko is placed ( in 1850 ), an offertory box in the form of a life-size statue of the man who asks with outstretched hand for alms for the poor. The alms are transported via a slot in the chest of the wooden beggar.
The Vaivaisukko
The old sawmill in Martinniemi
The railway bridge over the Kiiminkijoki
Personalities
Sons and daughters of Haukipudas
- Riitta -Liisa Roponen (born 1978 ), cross-country skier
Personalities who have worked on site
- Samuli Pohjamo (* 1950), writer and politician