Lake Tuusula

The Tuusulanjärvi [ tu ː sulɑnjærvi ] ( swedish Tusby träsk ) is a lake in the countryside Uusimaa in southern Finland.

It is located on the territory of the municipalities Tuusula and Järvenpää. The lake has an area of 6.0 km ². Its shape is elongated, the distance between the two ends of the lake is approximately 7 km. At the south end of the Tuusulanjärvi is the eponymous Kirchdorf Tuusula, at the northern end of the city of Järvenpää. Beginning of the 20th century, an artist colony formed on Tuusulanjärvi: On the banks of the lake and includes Jean Sibelius ' residence Ainola and the houses of the writer Juhani Aho, the painter Pekka Halonen and Eero Järnefelt and Joonas Kokkonen of the composer. The Nobel laureate Frans Eemil Sillanpää here decided to become a writer.

Even before that spent the Finnish national poet Kivi on the edge of the lake his last months in a small hut in which he died his brother Albert Stenvall and on the last day of the year 1872.