Vihti
Vihti [ Vihti ] (Swedish: Vichtis ) is a municipality in the south of Finland, about 50 kilometers northwest of the capital Helsinki.
Geography
Vihti is north of the southern Finnish landscape Uusimaa. Neighboring cities and municipalities are Karkkila and Loppi in the north, Hyvinkää in the northeast, Nurmijärvi in the east, in the southeast of Espoo, Kirkkonummi and Siuntio in the south and Lohja in the southwest. Helsinki is located 49 kilometers south-east. Vihti belongs to the Helsinki region and is closely linked to the capital: 19.6 percent of the working population is employed in Helsinki, further 19.7 percent in Espoo and Vantaa.
The municipality has an area of Vihti 567.09 km ², of which about 8 percent consists of inland waters. The parish village of Vihti is located on the northern shore of Lake Hiidenvesi, the community center Nummela is located between the lakes and Hiidenvesi Enäjärvi. Altogether there are 104 lakes in the municipal area counted together with a shore length of 266 kilometers. In the south has Vihti share Nuuksio National Park, one of the few relatively unspoilt heathland and forest areas in Uusimaa.
Vihti has four centers of settlement. Largest city and administrative center of the municipality is Nummela with around 11,400 inhabitants. In Kirchdorf Vihti, the historical center, in contrast, only about 3,500 people live. Other population centers are Ojakkala ( 1,300 inhabitants) and Otalampi (600 inhabitants). The remaining population of about 9,100 people living in the rest of the municipal area scattered in the villages:
- Haimoo
- Härkälä
- Jokikunta
- Oinasjoki
- Olkkala
- Palajärvi
- Siippoo
- Tervalampi
- Haapkylä
- Hulttila
- Hynnölä
- Härtsilä
- Irjala
- Jättölä
- Kaharla
- Kaukola ( Kaukoila )
- Kauppila
- Kirvelä
- Koikkala
- Korkaniemi
- Korppila
- Kourla
- Köykkälä
- Lahnus
- Lahti
- Lankila
- Leppärlä
- Lusila
- Maikkala
- Merramäki
- Niemenkylä
- Niemi
- Niuhala
- Olkkala
- Ollila
- Otalampi
- Oravala
- Pakasela
- Pietilä
- Pääkslahti
- Ruskela
- Salmi
- Selki
- Suksela
- Suontaka
- Taipale
- Tarttila
- Torhola
- Tuohilampi
- Vanhala
- Vanjoki
- Vanjärvi
- Vihtijärvi
- Vähäkylä
History
The area of present-day Vihti was to the Middle Ages forest area without settled habitation. Towards the end of the Middle Ages, the population had settled, which focused until the 16th century on the banks of the waters. As a founding date of the municipality is the year 1507, where the first known church Lord, Marthen, was used. Previously Vihti had belonged to the church community Lohja, the first known written mention dates back to 1433.
The first settlement Vihtis consisted of noble horse farms, so exempt agricultural farms, which in turn presented knights for the royal army. Until the 17th century, 44 these courts were established. In the environment of smallholder farms small farm-houses, of which there were at the end of the 18th century 150 originated. In 1749 Vihti had 1,403 inhabitants. In 1861, the community had now grown to over 5000 inhabitants, was the chapel community Pyhajarvi, today Karkkila, separated in the northwest of the municipality as a separate parish of Vihti. Nummela, the largest town of the community today, arose only after the completion of the railway from Hyvinkää to Hanko in 1873 to the new station Nummela around.
The country-wide trend towards the promotion of public education was reflected in Vihti first time in the establishment of the public library in 1851. The first primary school for boys was opened in 1873 in the village Ojakkala, the first girls' school in the following year the church village. The municipal administration in 1867 nominally separated from the Church and it was the municipality Vihti. The first council in 1909 but joined together. The agricultural structure of the community, previously characterized by large yards, began to change after the Civil War in 1918, when the small tenant farms, now over 400, were able to become independent. Definitively the large courtyards structure was disbanded after the Continuation War in 1944, when many refugees from the ceded territories in Karelia were settled in Vihti. In 1950 Vihti already had 11,003 inhabitants.
Policy
In Vihti the three major parties in Finland are about the same. In the current council, the conservative National Coalition Party with twelve seats, the largest group, followed closely by the Center Party and the Social Democrats with ten with nine seats. Furthermore, represented in the council are the Green Confederation and the Left Alliance, each with three seats, and the right-wing populist True Finns, the Christian Democrats and the local electoral coalition "party for Vihti " ( Vihdin puolesta ), each with a seat community director of Vihti is Petri Harkonen.
The designed by Gustaf of Numers municipal coat of arms was introduced in 1953 and display " on a gold shield a fallen blue wave rafters, which includes a blue water wheel ". The rafters wave is for the lake Hiidenvesi, the water wheel for the historical significance of the sawmill industry in Vihti.
Vihti maintains partnerships for the Norwegian municipality Sel, the Swedish city Norrtälje, the municipality Otepaeae in Estonia, the Danish place Skaelskor and the Japanese prefecture of Fukui.
Attractions
The parish church of Vihti, a cruciform church in brick construction, can hold about 600 people and was completed in 1772 according to plans by Antti Piimänen. 1818, it burned down after a lightning strike out completely; it also burned the altarpiece Jesus in Gethsemane by Emanuel Thelning, and even the church bells melted. The reconstruction was completed in 1822 after a design by the Italian architect Charles Bassi. During this time the church got its today formative neoclassical interiors. 1846 burned the church again after another lightning; only by the fact that the chancel was reconstructed at this time and the image was kept in the parish, the second altarpiece, Jesus' resurrection from Berndt Godenhjelm, the fire survived unscathed. 1848, 1928-29 and 1982 and 1985 the church was renovated; The organ was restored in 1990.
Next to the church are the ruins of the old church of Saint Bridget in the early 16th century. She had fallen into disrepair in the 17th century; after the present parish church was consecrated, wood and building blocks of the old church were sold, so that today only a few remnants of walls can be seen.
In many villages of the municipality, especially along the old trunk road from Helsinki to Pori, numerous well-preserved manors find from the 18th and 19th centuries. Many of these mansions are just as modest rental farmhouses, farm buildings and village ensembles protected as a cultural landscape. Of particular interest is the 1807 built by Charles Bassi in the early Empire style Good Vanjärvi.
Personalities
- Perttu Sirviö (winner of the first Finnish Big Brother Season 2005)
- Merikukka Forsius ( parliamentarian )
- Jani Sievinen ( float )
- Esa Sievinen ( Sports Trainer)
- Anssi Kela ( singer and composer )
- Markus Selin (film producer)
- Veikko Light ( MPs 1951-1983 )
- Jari Sillanpää ( singer)
- Ulla- Maija Aaltonen ( writer )
- Pauli Rantanen (inventor )
- Janne Korpi ( Snowboarder )
- Sami Uotila ( skier )
- Kim Wikström ( Hockey Players)