Kuivaniemi

Kuivaniemi [ kui̯vɑniɛmi ] is a place in the northern Finnish countryside Nordoesterbotten, which was a separate municipality until 2007. She joined in early 2007 with the neighboring municipality of Ii to Ii community together.

Kuivaniemi is located at the mouth of the river Kuivajoki in the Gulf of Bothnia. Built in 1871-1874 church of the village was built according to the plans of the German architect Ernst Bernhard Lohrmann, a pupil Carl Ludwig Engels.

The community Kuivaniemi existed as an independent political unit since 1867, had an area of ​​960.7 km ² and last approximately 2000 inhabitants. The municipality included not only the Kirchdorf Kuivaniemi the places Myllykangas and Oijärvi. The state highway 4 and the Railway Oulu - Tornio run parallel to the coast through Kuivaniemi. On September 1, 2006, however, the passenger was stopped because of low ridership all; because there are no facilities for freight traffic, this meant the final decommissioning of the station.

In 1931, the writer Kuivaniemi Antti Hyry was born.