Ruotsinpyhtää

Ruotsinpyhtää [ ruɔtsinpyhtæ ː ], swedish Strömfors until 2009 was an independent municipality in the Eastern Uusimaa landscape on the southern coast of Finland. At the beginning of 2010, it was incorporated into the town of Loviisa, which is part of the Uusimaa landscape since 2011.

Administrative center of the municipality was the village Ruotsinpyhtää Ruukki, which lies 18 kilometers east of the center of Loviisa near the mouth of Ahvenkoskenhaara, a Mündungsarms of the Kymi River in the Ahvenkoskenlahti Bay of the Gulf of Finland. In addition, the villages were among Ruotsinpyhtää Björnvik, Gäddbergsö, Haavisto ( Västerhirvikoski ) Tesjoki ( Tessjö ) Jokiniemi ( Anaes ), Keitala, Kulla, Kuninkaankylä ( Kungsböle ) Lappom, Niemistö ( Nasby ), Petjärvi, Ruotsinkylä ( Svenskby ) Suomenkylä ( Finnby ) Vahterpää, Vastila, Viirilä ( Virböle ) and Vähä - Ahvenkoski ( Lillabborfors ). Overall Ruotsinpyhtää had an area of ​​291.9 square kilometers ( excluding sea areas ). The population was 2,893 last. Of these, 18.5% were Finland Sweden. Thus, the community was officially bilingual with Finnish as majority and Swedish as a minority language.

The name Ruotsinpyhtää ( " Swedish Pyhtää " ) indicates that the municipality was formed in 1743 from that part of the parish Pyhtää which remained through the boundaries due to the Swedish- Russian Peace Treaty of Åbo on the Swedish side. The Swedish name Strömfors is different origin and dates back to rapids, since 1698 was an ironworks at the. The beginning of 2010 Ruotsinpyhtää was incorporated along with Pernå and Liljendal in the city of Loviisa.

The church stands in the village of Ruotsinpyhtää Ruukki and was completed in 1771. The unusual octagonal timber represents the neo-Gothic style. On the premises of ironworks Strömfors own historic industrial find 18th and 19th centuries. The ironworks was up in the 1950s in operation; Today it is a museum.

The historic ironworks Strömfors

The Ahvenkoski rapids

Landscape at Kukuljärvi Lake