Keuruu

Keuruu [ keu̯ru ː ] is a town with 10,494 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012) in Central Finland. It is located 50 kilometers west of the city Jyväskylä.

In the city center is home to around 8,000 residents. It extends over four bridges associated with islands on the north shore of the lake Keuruusselkä. In addition, include the city in 1969 is my finished site Pihlajavesi and the scattered settlements Ampiala, Jukojärvi, Kivijärvi, Liesjärvi, Loila, Pohjoislahti, Suojärvi, Suolahti and Valkealahti. The station Haapamäki village is the starting point of three railway lines (to the south of Jyväskylä, Seinäjoki in the west and in the east Iisalmi ) and thus the interchange station in the Finnish railway network of some importance.

A fixed colonization of the area around Keuruu occurred about 1560, subsequently it was divided between the parishes Pirkkala and Ruovesi. Since 1628 Keuruu is an independent congregation, since 1986 it has the right city.

The old wooden church was built in 1756-59 by Keuruu by Antti Hakola, but since the consecration of new brick church in 1892 disuse.

Today's parish Church

Town hall

Main road

Policy

The strongest party in Keuruu is the Centre Party with eleven of the 35 seats in the municipal council, the highest decision-making body for local affairs, closely followed by the Social Democrats with ten seats. The third major party of Finland, the National Coalition Party is six seats quite strong. Furthermore, represented in the City Council, the Christian Democrats with three, the right-wing populist True Finns with two and the Left Alliance and the Green collar are each provided with a seat A mandate also won a local election list ( Keuruun Sitoutumattomien Kunnallisjärjestö ry: n yhteislista ).

Keuruu is twinned to the following locations:

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