Pielavesi

Pielavesi [ piɛlɑvɛsi ] is a municipality in the Finnish Savo region, with 4928 inhabitants ( 31 December 2012). It is located in the west of the countryside Savo 52 km southwest of Iisalmi and 75 kilometers north- west of Kuopio. The neighboring communities of Pielavesi are Kiuruvesi in the north, Iisalmi in the northeast, Maaninka the southeast, Tervo in the south, Keitele in the southwest and Pyhajarvi and Pihtipudas in the West.

Location

The sprawling municipality of Pielavesi has an area of ​​1406.29 square kilometers, of which one-fifth of water. At the lake shores of Pielavesi that have a total length of 914 kilometers, are 1.500 holiday homes. In addition to the community center belong to Pielavesi the villages Heinämäki, Joutsenniemi, Jylhä, Jylänki, Karjala, Koivu Järvi, Kotaniemi, Kuivaniemi, Kurolanlahti, Lammassalo, Lampaanjärvi, Lappetelä, Laukkala, Leppämäki, Löytynjärvi, Löytynmäki, Niemisjärvi, Pahkamäki, Pajumäki, Pappila, Pauha, Pukara, Saarela, Sulkava Säviä, Taipale, Tallus, Tommanmäki, Tuovilanlahti, Vaaraslahti and Venetmäki.

History

1683 a chapel of the parish Iisalmi was founded in Pielavesi. This was originally located on the island Kirkkosaari, where a church tower dating from 1754 can be seen today. 1878 was the wooden church of Pielavesi in today's community center, which has since then served as a church in the community.

Policy

Parish council

Dominant political force in Pielavesi is the rural - liberal center party. She reached despite loss of votes in the local elections in 2012 with almost 49 % of the vote and 14 of the 27 seats in the city council just the absolute majority of seats. They are followed by the right-wing populist True Finns with five seats. Also represented in the City Council are the leftist coalition with four deputies and the conservative National Coalition Party and the Social Democrats with two representatives.

Sons and daughters

The most famous personality of the community is Urho Kekkonen, who was President of Finland from 1956 to 1982. He was born in September 3, 1900 Pachthof Lepikko in Pielavesi. On 9 August 1918, the writer Lauri Kokkonen was born in Pielavesi that " The last temptation " wrote among other things the libretto for his cousin second degree composed opera, Another pride of the village residents is the two-time Finnish champion volleyball Pielaveden Sampo. This club is also part of the 1984 -born Pielavesi javelin thrower Antti Ruuskanen.

Others

Pielavesi is one of the venues in Leena Lehtolainens family novel Kun luulit unohtaneesi (2002; German: You thought you had forgotten, 2007).