Lumijoki

Lumijoki [ lumijɔki ] is a municipality in the north-west of Finland.

She is halfway around 40 per km between the cities of Oulu and Raahe on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia. The municipality has a coastline of approximately 38 km. Named after the river is the place Lumijoki, the only Finnish river, which flows in a west-east direction and flows still in the Baltic Sea.

The first mention Lumijokis dates back to 1496, when Russian troops looted the place. For centuries the village belonged to the neighboring community Liminka, 1867, became independent as a community. In addition to the Kirchdorf Lumijoki the municipality includes the towns of Hirvasniemi, Lapinkylä, Korvenkylä, Varjakka and Ylipää. Around one third of the population lives from agriculture, major employers continue to have the local government, the wind power plant of the company Lumituuli, as well as some medium-sized industrial and service companies.

Our own church had the place since the early 17th century, but was demolished in 1814 and replaced by a larger building, but this burned in 1882 after a lightning strike from. The new church was built in 1886-90 by the architect John Lybeck and holds around 1,000 people. To the altar treasure among a gilt chalice from the year 1751, which was stolen in 1783 and was considered lost until it was discovered in 1918 in the Finnish Ostkriegszügen of Finnish troops in the Russian Karelia White again. In 1923, the cup was again about is the church.

Other attractions include the further drained post steamboat HL Hailuoto in the fishing village Varjakka that catered to traffic between Oulu and the Hailuoto 1920-1968. Today it houses a café in summer.

Interior

Abendsmahlkelch (1751 )

The HL Hailuoto

Policy

Parish council

The dominant political force in the rural Lumijoki is the Centre Party. At the municipal election in 2012, she received two-thirds of the votes and thus achieved one of its finland far best results. In the council allocating 15 of 21 deputies. Two seats could win the conservative National Coalition Party. Three mandates received the leftist coalition of the right-wing populist True finns. The Social Democrats entered the election, however, as well as the date in the council represented Communist Party to not only.