SiilinjÃ¤rvi

Siilinjärvi [ si ː linjærvi ] is a municipality in eastern Finland with 21,441 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2012). It lies in the Savo region near the city of Kuopio.

Geography

Siilinjärvi is located in the center of the eastern Finnish countryside Savo. The municipality is bordered to the northwest by Maaninka, on the north by Lapinlahti and the east and south of the city of Kuopio. The city center of Kuopio located 23 kilometers south. Siilinjärvi is closely connected with the near Kuopio, the largest city in Eastern Finland and is therefore sometimes dubbed as " Espoo Savo ".

The district of Siilinjärvi covers an area of 508 square kilometers. About a fifth of it consists of inland waters. In total there are 135 lakes in Siilinjärvi with an area larger than one hectare. The major bodies of water are the Juurusvesi lake system in the east and the northern part of Lake Kallavesi in the west of the municipality. Your name carries the community after the smaller Siilinjärvi Lake, a tributary of the Juurusvesi, on whose banks the Kirchdorf lies.

The community Siilinjärvi has four centers of settlement ( taajama ). The main town of the municipality is the village church ( Kirkonkylä ) Siilinjärvi, in which more than half the population lives. A second larger settlement center is 12 kilometers south of the church village on the road, this Kuopio Toivala - Vuorela. North of the church village lie the two small urban centers Pöljä and Kuuslahti. The population of the settlement centers of Siilinjärvi be on 31 December 2011:

Kirchdorf Siilinjärvi ( 11,189 inhabitants)
Toivala - Vuorela ( 5,284 inhabitants)
Pöljä (424 inhabitants)
Kuuslahti (217 inhabitants)

History

The first human settlements existed in the area of Siilinjärvi in the Neolithic period about 7,000 years ago. This is testified archaeological finds from the villages Kasurila, Rissala and Pöljä. Pöljä has even given a specific type of asbestos ceramic, which was discovered here for the first time, the name. During the Bronze Age Siilinjärvi was inhabited by semi-nomadic seeds. They had in today's municipal area several winter villages, where they spent the cold season. The name Siilinjärvi not derived approximately from the Finnish word for " hedgehog " ( siili ) from, but goes to the Sami siihti or siidhi for " winter village" back. To sedentary Finnish farmers settled in Siilinjärvi later than the 16th century.

The municipality Siilinjärvi 1925 was formed from parts of the former rural community as well as from Kuopio Kuusamo and Maaninka. At this time Siilinjärvi had 4,814 inhabitants. The congregation was founded in 1908, initially under the name Kasurila before she was two years later renamed Siilinjärvi. After the Second World War were about 850 refugees from the eastern territories of Karelia to Finland had to cede to the Soviet Union, based in Siilinjärvi. As 1969, the rural community of Kuopio was disbanded, the area Siilinjärvis enlarged around the villages Kehvo, Väänälänranta and Kehvonsalo.

Until the 1960s Siilinjärvi was clearly remained rural coined. This changed when the Kemira Group in the community opened a factory and a mine. The apatite mine in Siilinjärvi is today with a total funding of 9.64 million tons of apatite ore by far the largest in Finland. As a side -products are produced gypsum, mica and carbonates. The new jobs created led to population growth and increased construction activity. The old village church and the village Vuorela were expanded to dense population centers, the old building more modern skyscrapers and commercial buildings. In 2003 the population of the municipality for the first time broke through the 20,000 mark.

Population

While large parts of Eastern Finland are suffering from depopulation and aging due to the migration to the growth centers of the South, Siilinjärvi benefits from the proximity to the city of Kuopio. The population of the municipality is constantly increasing. In particular, many families with kids move to Siilinjärvi, which is reflected in population structure: 21.8 percent of the population is younger than 15 years, in Finland, there are 17.3 percent. Also, the educational level of the population is above average: Have a national average of 63.4 percent of the over 15 year-olds had completed at least vocational school, there are Siilinjarvi 68.9 percent.

Policy

Parish council

As in most rural areas of Finland is in Siilinjärvi the rural - liberal Centre Party, the largest party. The council puts 17 of 43 deputies. The Social Democrats are represented by eight, the right-wing populist True Finns with seven seats in the council. Furthermore, represented in the council are the conservative National Coalition Party with six, the Left Alliance with three, the Green Federation and the Christian Democrats with one mandate.

Coat of arms

The coat of arms of Siilinjärvi was designed in 1956 by Olof Eriksson heraldist. It shows in the black box two crossed golden foliage sickles, including a golden leaf water. The foliage sickles (Finnish kassara ) refer to the village Kasurila, after which the community first bore her name, the water sheet refers to the Siilinjärvi Lake, which gave the place its name to the same name.

Twinning

Siilinjärvi is twinned with the following cities and towns:

Sunne (Sweden)
Elverum (Norway )
Haslev (Denmark)
Hajdúböszörmény (Hungary )
Kamennogorsk (Russia)
Amberg ( Germany )

Monuments

The Kirchdorf Siilinjärvi is a very young, characterized by new and quite faceless settlement. In a survey of Helsingin Sanomat it was in 1985 even voted the ugliest Kirchdorf in Finland. Of architectural interest alone is the parish church of the village; the cruciform church, built according to plans by Peko Väänänen of brick, consecrated in 1923 and holds around 550 people. Inspired by the Finnish National Romanticism ceilings and stained glass windows are from Bruno Tuukkanen. How many places in the Savo revivalism Herättäjä - yhdistys has a strong presence in the Lutheran church in Siilinjärvi. In addition, the Orthodox minority has a church and a chapel in Siilinjärvi in Toivala.

Protected as a cultural landscape, however, are the quiet village ensembles of Räimä, Haapalahti and Väänälänranta on the north shore of Lake Kallavesi with wooden houses from the 19th century and some even older pasture fences.

Of interest are the former tuberculosis sanatorium Tarinaharju, which started operations in 1913, and the former Psychiatric Hospital Harjamäki. The latter was from 1926 to 1997 with at times over 1,000 inpatients one of the largest clinics of its kind in Finland. Today it houses a museum with a permanent exhibition on the history of psychiatry in Finland.

Traffic

Siilinjärvi is located on State Road 5, one of the most important north -south connections in Finland. The section between Siilinjärvi and Kuopio was expanded highway-like after 1985; the route was thereby moved closer to the community center to conserve a nearby nature reserve. The state road 17 to Joensuu connects in Vuorela at Siilinjärvi with State Road 5 in the center of Siilinjärvi the state road crosses 5 two more highways: The main road 75 connects Siilinjärvi about Kuusamo and Nurmes with the north-eastern Kuhmo, the main road 77 leads in a westerly direction after Kyyjärvi. At the railway network Siilinjärvi is connected via the Savo train from Kouvola after Iisalmi. In the municipality there are two train stations: Toivala and Siilinjärvi.

The Kuopio Airport is located in the south of the municipality of Siilinjärvi near the village Rissala. Flight operations in 1940 included, today the airport with a passenger volume of 304 204 the seventh- busiest airport in Finland. It is served by the airlines Finnair, Finncomm Airlines and Blue1 next used by the Finnish Air Force. At the airport, the squadron Karelia ( Karelian lennosto ), one of three squadrons of the Finnish Air Force stationed. In the squadron Karelia serve 600 soldiers and it has 20 fighter aircraft of the type F -18 Hornet.

Sons and daughters

Jyrki Katainen (born 1971 ), politician and Prime Minister of Finland
Kimmo Savolainen ( born 1974 ), ski jumpers
Sanni Leinonen (* 1989), alpine skier

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