Jämsänkoski
Jämsänkoski [ ˈjæmsænkɔski ] is a formerly independent town in Finland and is now part of the town of Jämsä .
Jämsänkoski is located in central Finland in the middle of the Finnish Lake District, nine kilometers north of Jämsä city center. The administrative urban area of Jämsänkoski comprised the main town of the same name and an area of 448.56 km² (of which 46.81 km² were inland waters). The Jämsänjoki River flows through the area from north to south and expands in its course to the size of a lake in various places. Jämsänkoski is located on the Jämsänjoki rapids, from which the place owes its name ( koski means "rapids" in Finnish). The last population of Jämsänkoski was 7,351.
Jämsänkoski originally belonged to the Jämsä parish . A sawmill was founded on the Jämsänkoski rapids as early as 1792. In the course of the industrialization of Finland at the end of the 19th century, further industrial companies that used the water power of the rapids settled in Jämsänkoski: a second sawmill was built in 1861, a paper mill followed in 1888. In 1926 the industrial town was detached from Jämsä as an independent municipality. The municipality of Koskenpää was incorporated in 1969, and in 1986 Jämsänkoski was granted town charter. At the beginning of 2009, Jämsänkoski reunited with the city of Jämsä.
The wood and paper industry is still Jämsänkoski's main industry. One of two production sites of the UPM-Kymmene Group's paper mill in Jämsä, which employs a total of almost 1,300 people, is in Jämsänkoski. Jämsänkoski has a train station on the Orivesi - Jyväskylä line , but no passenger trains stop there. The town's sights include the brick church built in 1937 and the Koskenpää church from 1901.
The orienteer Merja Rantanen was born in 1980 in Jämsänkoski.
Individual evidence
- ↑ As of 2008, source: Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office) (PDF; 247 kB)
- ↑ As of December 31, 2008. Source: Väestörekisterikeskus (Finnish population register). ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2014 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.
- ↑ UPM Kymmene: Production Units ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
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Coordinates: 61 ° 55 ' N , 25 ° 11' E