Nummi-Pusula
Nummi - Pusula [ num i ː ˌ pusulɑ ] is a former municipality in the south of Finland. It was created in 1981 by merging the municipalities Nummi and Pusula and was incorporated at the beginning of 2013 in the city of Lohja. The population was last 6193rd
Geography
Nummi - Pusula is in the northwest of the landscape Uusimaa approximately 70 kilometers northwest of Helsinki and 25 kilometers north of the main town of Lohja. The area of the municipality of Nummi - Pusula was 505.1 square kilometers (of which 36.8 square miles inland waters). For the former municipality of Nummi - Pusula include four population centers ( taajama ): The Kirchdörfer Nummi and Pusula and Saukkola and Ikkala. The administrative center was Saukkola. The south of the municipal area is used for agriculture, in the northern forests and lakes are prevalent.
The villages of the municipality distributed as follows on the two former municipalities:
Nummi Haarla, Hakula, Heijala, Heimola, Huhti, Hyrsylä, Hyvelä, Immola, Jakova, Järvenpää, Jättölä, Korkianoja, Kovela, Leppäkorpi, Luttula, Maikkala, Mäntsälä, Maskila, Mettula, Miemola, Millola, Mommola, Näkkilä, Nummi, Oinola, Oittila, Pakkala, Pälölä, Raatti, Remala, Retlahti, Röhkölä, Salo, Saukkola, Sierla, Sitarla, Tavola, Varttila, Vivola.
Pusula Ahonpää, Arimaa, Hattula Hauhula, Herrala, Hirvijoki, Hyönölä, Hyrkkölä, Ikkala, Karisjärvi, Karjasjärvi, Kärkölä, Kaukela, Koisjärvi, Mäkkylä, Marttila, Pusula, Radu, Seppälä, Suomela, Tausta, Tölli, Uusikylä, Viiala, Vörlö.
History
Both Nummi as Pusula were from the 17th century chapel of the parish communities Lohja. The Finnish Senate decided in 1862, Pusula to solve as an independent parish from Lohja, Nummi was followed a year later. When in 1865 the management of rural communities became separated from the church administration, Nummi and Pusula became political communities. In 1981, she united to form the municipality of Nummi - Pusula. At the beginning of 2013 Nummi - Pusula was incorporated along with Karjalohja in the city of Lohja.
Economy and infrastructure
Nummi - Pusula lies in the catchment area of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area. The highway like a developed state highway 1 (E 18) from Helsinki to Turku strips the former municipality at the level of the district Saukkola, and in this way commute many community residents daily to their jobs in Helsinki, Vantaa and Espoo or closer regional center Lohja.
The local economic structure is instead characterized small-town, the majority of registered businesses are small and micro enterprises. Of the 1660 jobs in the community in 2000 presented 436 public bodies, to the agriculture and forestry accounted for 312 jobs. The unemployment rate in March 2007 with about 7.6 percent of the national average.
The largest private employer is the hydraulic manufacturers Hydraulic Nurmy Oy with around 150 employees. At its location in the district Ikkala the company provides large cylinders for industrial hydraulic systems ago, the Commercial Vehicle Hydraulics was transferred Nurmi Auto Oy in the subsidiary company, also based in Ikkala 2006. The second major industrial companies is developed with 60 employees Oy Lohja pumppu - AB, industrial pumps and filtration systems. These two companies have settled only in the 1990s in Nummi - Pusula. Previously, there had been some companies in the textile industry in the community, however, the transfer of production to cheaper locations abroad put an end to. The municipal administration is anxious to attract through the development of an industrial park on the edge of the main road by other large companies Nummi - Pusula.
Culture and sights
Among the architectural sights of Nummi - Pusula include the three churches in the parish: the Church of Nummi was completed in 1822 according to plans by AT Edelcranz. The neoclassical Cross Church is characterized by the use of field stone, a rare for those architecture era building material, from. The pulpit inside the church dates back to the wooden predecessor from the year 1635th Even older is the crucifix of the church, probably dates from the late 14th century. Together with several surrounding buildings from the 18th and 19th century, the ensemble of the church village Nummi is enrolled in the Finnish Heritage Register. Designed by Henrik Andsten wooden church of Pusula was consecrated in 1838. However, they soon proved to be a bad design, and threatened under the weight of oversized roof to collapse. 1858-1859 the church was rebuilt and lowered the roof to eight meters. A third church located in the village Kärkölä. It is also built in wood and dates from 1842. Likewise protected monument are the cultural landscape at the confluence of the rivers Nummenjoki and Pusulanjoki, on Pusulanjärvi Lake and in the villages Retlahti and Vörlö and dating from the late 19th century Kleinpachthof of Myllymäki.
The Dairy Museum in Saukkola is housed in an Art Nouveau dairy dating from the early 20th century. The Gutshof Kovela at Pusula is a manor house and craft museum and a tractor museum, where several hundred tractors are mainly issued from the 1920 and 1955. The replica in the Karelian style log cabin Hyrsylän Mutka serves as a house museum. It was built in 1983 by the artist Aira Samulin who had to flee her home village Hyrsylä after the Second World War, when Finland ceded the eastern part of Karelia to the Soviet Union.
Coat of arms
The community Nummi - Pusula wore the coat of arms of the former municipality of Nummi. It was designed by the heraldist Gustaf of Numers and shows in a blue field, a silver padlock. The castle is reminiscent of the one with the once the tithe barn of the parish was closed, which was long a landmark in the area.