Jalasjärvi
Jalasjärvi is a place and a former municipality in the South Ostrobothnian countryside in western Finland . The community had 7,899 inhabitants on September 30, 2014, and was incorporated into Kurikka on January 1, 2016 .
geography
The municipality of Jalasjärvi was quite extensive with 830 square kilometers (11.7 km² of which were inland waterways) and was roughly the size of the city of Hamburg . The south of the municipality lies on the moraine ridge of Suomenselkä and in Kloperovuori reaches a height of 193 meters above sea level. To the north, the terrain slopes steadily towards the Ostrobothnian coastal plain. Since the plains in the north were initially under the floods of Lake Ancylus after the end of the last Ice Age and only dried up with the progressive isostatic uplift, fertile clay soils have been deposited here, so that the north of Jalasjärvi is used intensively for agriculture. The south, like all of Suomenselkä, on the other hand, is hardly arable because of its relief and the acidic peat soils and is therefore very sparsely populated.
The district of Jalasjärvi almost coincides with the catchment area of the river Jalasjoki and its tributaries, which arise in Suomenselkä and, especially when the snowmelts in spring, regularly lead to high water and sometimes cause severe flooding. The lakes in the municipality are all quite small. The lakes and ponds in the northern part, such as Hirvijärvi, Koskutjärvi, Ahvenlampi and Jalasjärvi, which gave the municipality its name, are very shallow and almost entirely covered with reeds due to heavy fertilization, the Ojajärvi in the northeast of the municipality even dries out in summer . The ponds in the hilly north such as Kolhonjärvi, Iso-Madesjärvi, and Saarijärvi are clearer and more scenic.
The church village of Jalasjärvi is located around 35 kilometers south of the town of Seinäjoki, a little south of the point where the Jalasjoki expands to Lake Jalasjärvi. The municipality also includes the villages Taivalmaa, Hirvijärvi, Ilvesjoki, Jalasjärvi, Sikakylä, Jokipii, Keskikylä, Koskue, Luopajärvi, Ylivalli and Alavalli.
politics
As in most rural areas of Finland, the Center Party has recently been the strongest political force in Jalasjärvi . In the 2008 local elections she received 44.7 percent, and in the 2007 parliamentary elections even half of the votes. In the local council, the highest decision-making body in local affairs, after the local elections in 2008, it provided 17 of 35 members. The second strongest party was the conservative National Collection Party with 27.5 percent of the vote and 10 seats on the city council. The third big party in Finland, the Social Democrats , on the other hand, play a subordinate role with a single-digit election result and three members of the city council in Jalasjärvi. The right-wing populist True Finns were disproportionately represented with five seats.
| Political party | 2008 election results | Seats |
|---|---|---|
| Center Party | 44.7% | 17th |
| National rally party | 27.5% | 10 |
| True Finns | 14.0% | 5 |
| Social democrats | 8.3% | 3 |
Jalasjärvi maintains a municipal partnership with the Italian town of Baragiano .
Sons and daughters
- Sameli Tala (1893–1961), long-distance runner
- Päivi Maria Luostarinen (* 1955), diplomat
- Kalevi Kiviniemi (* 1958), concert organist and composer
- Hannu Lahtinen (* 1960), wrestler
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2007 general election
- ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2008 local elections
Coordinates: 62 ° 29 ′ N , 22 ° 46 ′ E