Kirkkonummi

Kirkkonummi [ kirk ː o ː ˌ num i] (Finnish, Swedish Kyrkslätt [ tɕyrkslɛt ] ) is a Finnish community in the Helsinki region. It is located west of Espoo, more neighboring municipalities are Ingå and Siuntio. The town's name means " church Heide". The Church of Kirkkonummi was built in 1500 and rebuilt in the 18th and 19th centuries, a cruciform church.

History

Finds of Stone Age artefacts in the north of Kirkkonummi suggest a first settlement around 9,000 years ago, when there was the south of modern communal territory still under the sea level. On the banks of the lakes and Vitträsk Juusjärvi to prehistoric rock drawings have been preserved. With the postglacial land uplift the coastline over the millennia wandered farther and farther to the south; on a continuous settlement can barrows particularly close to hills in the south of the church.

With the Christianization of Finland in the High Middle Ages, Swedish-speaking settlers settled along the coast; the coastal hinterland remained predominantly Finnish-speaking. The course of the linguistic border can be traced in particular to the distribution of the Finnish and Swedish place names. Some field names are in Kirkkonummi Estonian origin, which can be attributed to the fact that the Estonian Cistercian monastery monastery Padis in the Middle Ages had some lands here. The oldest ruins of the stone church of Kirkkonummi may have been made was already completed in the 13th century, the construction in the 15th century. The area has benefited in the Middle Ages from its location on the King's Road, the trade route between Turku and Viipuri and from trading on the Baltic Sea.

In the 19th century Kirkkonummi then benefited from its proximity to Helsinki, which in 1812 became the capital of the now Russian Grand Duchy of Finland and quickly grew into a major city. The local agriculture and fisheries grew with the increasing need for food, and so Kirkkonummi was soon regarded as a " pantry of the capital. "

The municipal area includes the two strategically important peninsulas Porkkala and Upinniemi; on the latter is one of the most important bases of the Finnish Navy. Porkkala and other areas of the municipalities Kirkonnummi, Ingå and Siuntio were leased to fifty years after the defeat of Finland in the Continuation War in 1945 to the Soviet Union, they used the base but only until 1956.

Development of the population (as of December 31):

• 2000-29694
• 2002-30937
• 2004-32772

Community partnerships

• Sweden Sundbyberg, Sweden
• Estonia Paldiski, Estonia

Sons and daughters of the town

• Amin Asikainen ( b. 1976 ), Boxer and European Champion
• Mårten Boström (* 1982 ), Athlete and orienteers
• Laura Österberg Kalmari ( b. 1979 ), football player
• Paradise Oskar (* 1990), singer-songwriter
• Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), architect and designer
• Johan Vilhelm Snellman (1806-1881), philosopher, journalist and statesman
• Thorvald Strömberg (1931-2010), canoeist and Olympic champion
• Pernilla Karlsson (* 1990), singer-songwriter