Asikkala

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Asikkalan kunta
coat of arms map
Asikkala Coat of Arms Location of Asikkala in Finland
Basic data
State : FinlandFinland Finland
Landscape : Päijät-Häme
Administrative community : Lahti
Geographical location 60 ° 45 ′  N , 26 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 60 ° 45 ′  N , 26 ° 5 ′  E
Surface: 755.84 km²
of which land area: 563.49 km²
of which inland waterways: 192.35 km²
Residents : 8,149 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 14.5 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number : 016
Language (s) : Finnish
Website : www.asikkala.fi

Asikkala [ ˈɑsikˌkɑlɑ ] is a municipality in southern Finland. It is located around 20 km north of the city of Lahti in the south of the Finnish lake district .

geography

The current capital of the municipality is Vääksy , it is located on an isthmus between the lakes Vesijärvi in the south and Päijänne in the north. The two lakes were connected with each other in 1871 with the completion of the 1,315 meter long Vääksy Canal. Today it is one of the busiest waterways in Finland. Ships only have to overcome one lock when passing through . Another canal, the Kalkkinen Canal, which is exactly 1,315 meters long, was completed in 1875 and connects the lakes Päijänne and Ruotsalainen .

The community also includes the eponymous place Asikkala and the places Anianpelto Hillilä, Iso-Äiniö, Joenniemi, Kalkkinen, Keltaniemi, Kopsuo, Kurhila, Muikkula, Mustjärvi, Myllykselä, Paakkola, Pulkkila, Pätijäro, Sätijärvi, Rivilä, Riihilahvi Vehkoo, Vesivehmaa, Viitaila, Vähimaa and Vähä-Äiniö.

Attractions

The most distinctive building in the parish is the Protestant parish church in Asikkala, which was built between 1878 and 1880 and has a particularly ornate interior for Finnish Protestantism .

The Lahti-Vesivehmaa airfield ( ICAO code EFLA) with an attached aviation museum, which exhibits some historical military aircraft not only from the Finnish air force, is also located in the municipality .

Part of the municipality is part of the Päijänne National Park , including Pulkkilanharju, an eight-kilometer-long but partly only a few meters wide headland in Lake Päijänne.

  • The parish church of Asikkala

  • Interior of the parish church

  • Lahti-Vesivehmaa airfield

coat of arms

Description of the coat of arms : The silver-red diagonally quartered coat of arms shows a five-leaf with a golden slug in mixed up colors in each field .

Community partnerships

Asikkala maintains partnerships with the following communities abroad:

Asikkala has been a Finnish member of the Douzelage city ​​association , to which one city from each EU member state belongs, since 2016 .

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Commons : Asikkala  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB)
  2. ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018