Karvia

Karvia is a municipality with about 2800 inhabitants in Western Finland. It is located about 90 km northwest of the port city of Pori in the landscape Satakunta.

Location

Karvia is on the Suomenselkä, an elongated flat ridge, which is the watershed between the Gulf of Bothnia and the inland Finnish lakes area. In Os Kauraharju he reached in Karvia a height of 186 m. Numerous hills, forests, marshes, and lakes dot the landscape of the municipality and are a habitat for many animal species. The northern Karvia share of the 1982 National Park donated Kauhaneva - Pohjankankaan kansallispuisto.

Community

The municipality was founded in 1865 and next to the village church Karvia includes the towns of Alkava, Alkkia, Ämmälä, Kantti, Karviankylä, Kauhakorpi, Mattila, Rannankylä, Sara, Sarvela, Saunaluoma, Suomijärvi and Tuulenkylä. Major employer in the heavily overdeveloped community are the local administration, agriculture and forestry and a few kleinidustrielle businesses.

History

The parish village was established in the 17th century as Wegsiedlung on Kyrönkankaantie, the medieval traffic and highway between Ilmajoki and Hämeenkyrö. Around the year 1635, The Swedish army here a first fastener to secure one to the road, on the other hand, for fear of uprisings of the many who returned Hakkapeliitta. A strategic role came to the fort in the Russian - Swedish war 1808-1809; Bullet holes from the fighting this war, can still be seen today in the wooden beams of the fortifications.

Coat of arms

Description of coat of arms: The divided by fir rice section, above, blue, golden plate below shows the upper half of a golden- margined pentagon with stylized bastions.

The pentagon represents the top view of a schematic military fort ( fort by Vauban ) and thus takes on the history of respect.

Attractions

The interior completely painted wooden church of Karvia was built in 1798 by Salomon Kölström - Köykkä; the free-standing bell tower in 1806. Inside the church there are beautiful paintings on wood and an altarpiece by Carl Gabriel Diederichs. On the outer wall of a so-called vaivaisukko stands in front of the tower erected 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 (Swedish: Fattiggubbe ) is a form of Finnish folk tradition and is found in many places, especially at churches western and southwestern Finland (Finnish Swedish settlement area).