Eckerö
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| State : |
 Finland
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| Landscape : | Åland |
| Administrative community : | Åland Country |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 13 ′ N , 19 ° 38 ′ E |
| Surface: | 752.75 km² |
| of which land area: | 107.71 km² |
| of which inland waterways: | 1.47 km² |
| of which sea area: | 643.57 km² |
| Residents : | 961 (December 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 8.9 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number : | 043 |
| Language (s) : | Swedish |
| Website : | www.eckero.aland.fi |
Eckerö is a municipality in the autonomous Finnish province ( Finnish : Lääni ) Åland with 961 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018). It is located in the far west of Åland, making it Finland's westernmost municipality. It lies on its own island, which is counted as part of the main island of Fasta Åland and is connected to it by a bridge. Hammarland is to the east of the municipality . Eckerös center is Storby. It is about 35 kilometers to Mariehamn . Of the residents of Eckerös, 89 percent speak Swedish as their mother tongue, 6 percent Finnish and 5 percent other languages (as of 2012). As in all of Åland, the only official language is Swedish.
history
Eckerö was first mentioned around 1320 as Ækro ; the first part of the place name is probably to be understood as a variant of Swedish åker , field, ö is the Swedish word for island.
Just like Vårdö in the east of mainland Åland, Eckerö in the west was an important transit station for the Turku - Stockholm postal route . The splendid post and customs house near Berghamn harbor, designed by Carl Ludwig Engel in 1828, from where the post boats left Åland for Stockholm, is a testament to the importance of postal traffic for the municipality . In addition to the post house mentioned above, the parish's sights include the stone church from around 1400, whose small bell is the oldest church bell in Finland.
traffic
From the ferry port in Berghamn, on the west coast of Eckerö, you can take the Eckerö Linjen ferry to Grisslehamn in Sweden .
Localities
The municipalities include: Berghamn, Björnhuvud (Björnhovda), Degersand, Finbo, Kyrkby, Käringsund, Marby, Överby, Skag, Storby , Torp, Skeppsvik, Udden. Västerbergen
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 (PDF; 199 kB)
- ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
- ↑ Tilastokeskus / Statistics Centers (Finnish Statistics Office): Population according to age (1-year), sex, marital status and language by area 1990 - 2012 . ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Matts Dreijer: The History of the Åland People. Vol. I: 1. Almqvist & Wiksell, Stockholm 1986. p. 147.
