Hetta

Hetta [' hɛt ː ɑ ] ( Northern Sami Heahttá ) is the capital of the municipality Enontekiö in Finnish Lapland.

Hetta is located on the shore of the lake in the southern part Ounasjärvi Enontekiös at the intersection of highway from Palojoensuu and the Norwegian from the Kautokeino. About 800 of the 2,000 residents of the community live here. In Hetta it houses the local administration, the church Enontekiös, the main services, the local museum of Enontekiö that of the Finnish Forest Service ( Metsähallitus ) maintained natural and cultural Fjell Lapland as well as several tourism businesses. The Enontekiö airport is located seven kilometers west of Hetta. Hetta is the starting point of a 55 km long hiking trail through the Pallas- Yllästunturi National Park.

The first Finnish settlers settled around the year 1700 in Hetta down. The name is said to date back to a shortening of Hietaniemi. Hietaniemi, a village in Ylitornio, was the home of Neusiedlers Heikki Heikinpoika, who came to Hetta 1694. Hetta was a small and insignificant place before the mid-19th century it was decided to move the church from Palojoensuu by Hetta. 1907, the first road link to Hetta was completed. Hetta was largely destroyed in the Lapland War of 1944 by German troops and rebuilt after the war.

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The Church of Enontekiö