Järvenpää
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 Finland
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| Landscape : | Uusimaa |
| Administrative community : | Helsinki |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 28 ′ N , 25 ° 6 ′ E |
| Surface: | 39.95 km² |
| of which land area: | 37.59 km² |
| of which inland waterways: | 2.36 km² |
| Residents : | 43,410 (Dec. 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 1,154.8 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number : | 186 |
| Postcodes : | 04401-04435 |
| Language (s) : | Finnish |
| Website : | www.jarvenpaa.fi |
Järvenpää [ jærʋemˌpæː ] ( Swed. Träskända ) [ trɛskˌɛnda ] is a city in the southern Finnish landscape Uusimaa .
With 43,410 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) and an area of almost 40 km², Järvenpää is one of the most densely populated cities in Finland. Järvenpää is monolingual Finnish-speaking.
geography
Both the Finnish and the Swedish form of the name literally means "end of the lake" and refers to the location of Järvenpääs at the end of the elongated lake Tuusulanjärvi . The city belongs to the Helsinki region and is 37 km north of the Finnish capital.
history
Until 1951 Järvenpää belonged to the neighboring town of Tuusula at the other end of Tuusulanjärvi. Järvenpää has been a city since 1967.
Population development
The development of the population of Järvenpää:
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Culture and sights
Around 1900 Järvenpää attracted numerous artists. The composer Jean Sibelius lived from 1904 until his death in 1957 in the Villa Ainola two kilometers south of the city center, where he composed five of his seven symphonies. Today the house, named after Sibelius' wife Aino, is a museum.
The writer Juhani Aho , like the painter Eero Järnefelt, lived on the banks of the Tuusulanjärvi.
On the opposite side of the lake is the villa of the composer Joonas Kokkonen , built by Alvar Aalto . The art museum, which opened in 1992, is dedicated to the work of the artists' colony in Järvenpää.
traffic
Helsinki Central Station can be reached in half an hour with the local rail services that run several times an hour in the Helsinki region . Next to Järvenpää train station are the Purola, Saunakallio, Kyrölä and Haarajoki train stations in the city (in the northeast of the city, served by line Z). The Helsinki- Lahti motorway , part of State Road 4 ( E 75 ), passes Järvenpää to the east. Many people who work in Helsinki move to Järvenpää because of the convenient transport links. As a result, the city's population is growing steadily.
Town twinning
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Buchholz in the Nordheide , Germany
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Lørenskog , Norway
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Täby , Sweden
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Rødovre , Denmark
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Vác , Hungary
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Volkhov , Russia
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Pasadena , USA
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Jõgeva County , Estonia
sons and daughters of the town
- Jarmo Jokinen (1957–1987), table tennis player
- Samuli Aro (* 1975), motorcyclist and four-time enduro world champion
- Eero Somervuori (* 1979), ice hockey player
- Hannu Patronen (* 1984), soccer player
- Tomi Nybäck (* 1985), chess player
- Jami Äijänen (* 1996), squash player
- Tero Seppälä (* 1996), biathlete
- Miko Äijänen (* 1997), squash player
- Santeri Hostikka (born 1997), football player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish Land Surveyors): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB)
- ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
- ↑ Statistics Finland, population figures 1980–2012 ( 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.
