Jyväskylä

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Jyväskylä (disambiguation) .

Jyväskylän kaupunki

coat of arms	map
Basic data
State :	Finland
Landscape :	Central Finland
Administrative community :	Jyväskylä
Geographical location	62 ° 14 '  N , 25 ° 44'  E Coordinates: 62 ° 14 '  N , 25 ° 44'  E
Surface:	1,466.34 km²
of which land area:	1,171.01 km²
of which inland waterways:	295.33 km²
Residents :	141,305 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	120.7 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number :	179
Postcodes :	40014-40740
Language (s) :	Finnish
Website :	www.jyvaskyla.fi
View of Jyväskyläs center

Jyväskylä [ ˈjyvæskylæ ] is a university and school town and municipality in central Finland . With 141,305 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) it is the seventh largest city in the country. Jyväskylä is around 270 km north of Helsinki on the north shore of Lake Päijänne .

history

Jyväskylä was founded in 1837. It has been a university town since 1966 . Until 1997, Jyväskylä was the capital of the Province of Central Finland, which became part of the Province of Western Finland with the 1997 administrative reform . However Jyväskylä is also the capital of the reorganized landscape Central Finland.

At the beginning of 2009, the city of Jyväskylä merged with the rural municipality of Jyväskylä , at the same time the municipality of Korpilahti was incorporated.

population

Development of the population

year	1985	1990	1995	2000	2005	2010	2015
Residents	99.993	103,921	109,657	116,519	124.205	130.816	137 368

(Status: December 31st)

In 2004 there were 2,048 foreigners living in Jyväskylä; the unemployment rate in 2007 was 12.7%. About a quarter of the population are students.

As a result of the merger of the city with the rural municipality of Jyväskylä in 2009 and the incorporation of the municipality of Korpilahti , the area of ​​Jyväskyläs increased by more than ten times, and the population rose to around 128,000.

Attractions

Lutheran church in the city park

Jyväsjärvi waterfront promenade

The image of the city is shaped by the buildings of Alvar Aalto , who u. a. designed the police headquarters, the university and the city museum. The Alvar Aalto Museum is dedicated to his work.

Other attractions are:

• City church with park
• Harbor with old steamships and a view of Mattilanniemi and Kuokkala
• Harju, a wooded ridge in the city center with a lookout tower and restaurant
• Laajavuori, winter sports center
• Viherlandia, garden center

Just outside is the Savutuvan Apaja open-air museum . The Neste Oil Rally Finland (formerly 1000 Lakes Rally), part of the World Rally Championship (WRC) and practically the “event of the year”, takes place annually on the gravel roads around Jyväskylä .

The Aviation Museum of Central Finland ( Keski-Suomen Ilmailumuseo ) is located 18 kilometers north at Jyväskylä Airport in Tikkakoski .

Other museums in Jyväskylä:

• Trade museum
• Art museum
• Museum of Handicrafts and Applied Arts
• Museum for Central Finland (Keski-Suomen museo)
• Nature museum in the old water tower on Harju
• Alvar Aalto Museum

City structure

View from the observation tower to the city center and Jyväsjärvi

City structure

View of the Kuokkala district

The center of Jyväskylä is located between Lake Jyväsjärvi and the Harju ridge and consists of mostly parallel streets with multi-storey residential and commercial buildings, which are quite steep towards the shore. The original wooden houses have usually been replaced by concrete and stone buildings since the 1950s.

Important city districts:

• Kuokkala - across from the city center on the southern bank of Jyväsjärvi . In the 1990s, the area began to be developed as a residential area with modern multi-storey houses.
• Mäki-Matti - mostly single-family area north of the city center and Harju .
• Kortepohja - mainly student housing, northwest, approx. 2 km from the center
• Kypärämäki - mainly single-family and small townhouses, western edge of town
• Tourula - apartments and businesses in the east of the city on the Tourujoki River
• Lohikoski - mainly single-family and small townhouses, peninsula in the north of the city
• Nenäinniemi - New building area, mainly single-family and small terraced houses, peninsula in the south of the city on Lake Päijänne
• Keltinmäki - prefabricated housing estate on the outskirts, southwest
• Myllyjärvi - mostly single-family houses and student residences on the outskirts, southwest
• Huhtasuo - prefabricated housing estate on the outskirts, east
• Keljonkangas - mainly industrial park, in the southwest
• Seppälä - mainly industrial area, in the east
• Säynätsalo - part of the city located on the island of the same name in Lake Päijänne

economy

Jyväskylä University

The city is an important industrial center . It is the location of the paper, wood and metal industries. A factory of the popular candy company Panda is also located just outside the city.

The most important employers are (12/2007):

• City of Jyväskylä 4788
• Central Finnish Nursing District (KS: n sairaanhoitopiirin ky) 2680
• Jyväskylä University 2400
• Metso Oyj Jyväskylä units 2300
• Keskimaa Osk (trade) 1050
• Jyväskylä 750 Vocational School
• Jyväskylä University of Applied Sciences 690

politics

The strongest political force in Jyväskylä since 2017 has been the Finnish Greens , who have 14 out of 67 MPs on the city council, followed by the ousted Social Democrats with 13 and the conservative-liberal National Assembly Party with 12 MPs. The Center Party received 11 seats as in the previous election. The right-wing populist base finns with five, the left alliance with seven, the Christian Democrats with four and finally the Finnish Pirate Party with one mandate are still represented in the city council . The Communist Party of Finland could not defend one mandate and received nothing in the 2017 election.

Composition of the city council after the 2012 and 2017 elections

Political party	2012 result	Seats 2012	0	Result 2017	Seats 2017
Social democrats	24.1%	17th		19.3%	13
National rally party	18.6%	13		17.4%	12
Center Party	17.0%	11		15.9%	11
Base fins	11.6%	08th		08.1%	05
Green covenant	11.1%	07th		19.9%	14th
Left alliance	09.2%	06th		10.1%	07th
Finnish Christian Democrats	05.7%	04th		06.4%	04th
Communist Party	01.7%	01		01.2%	00
Pirate party	00.8%	00		1.4%	01
Rest	00.2%	00		00.3%	00

Mayor has been Timo Koivisto (Social Democrats) since May 1, 2015. He replaced Markku Andersson, who had been mayor since September 2004.

Town twinning

Jyväskylä lists the following twelve twin cities :

city	country	since	Type
Debrecen	Northern Great Plain, Hungary	1970	Twin town
Esbjerg	Syddanmark, Denmark	1947	Twin town
Eskilstuna	Södermanland, Sweden	1947	Twin town
Fjarðabyggð	Austurland, Iceland	1958	Twin town
Yaroslavl	Russia	1966	Twin town
Jining	Shandong, People's Republic of China	2018	cooperation
Kunming	Yunnan, People's Republic of China	2005	cooperation
Mudanjiang	Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China	1988	Twin town
Niiza	Kantō, Japan	1997	Twin town
Potsdam	Brandenburg, Germany	1985	Twin town
Poses	Greater Poland, Poland	1974	Twin town
Stavanger	Rogaland, Norway	1947	Twin town
Tartu municipality	Tartumaa, Estonia	1991	Twin town

sons and daughters of the town

• Rudolf Holsti (1881–1945), Finnish sociologist and politician; Foreign Minister (1919–1922, 1936–1938)
• Ilmari Hannikainen (1892–1955), composer
• Onni Peltonen (1894–1969), social democratic politician, born in the rural community of Jyväskylä, died in Jyväskylä
• Onni Hiltunen (1895–1971), social democratic politician
• Väinö Hannikainen (1900–1960), composer
• Erkki Raatikainen (1930–2011), social democratic politician
• Eino Oksanen (* 1931), long-distance runner
• Matti Vanhanen (* 1955), politician and Prime Minister of Finland
• Henri Toivonen (1956–1986), rally driver
• Matti Nykänen (1963-2019), ski jumper
• Tommi Mäkinen (* 1964), four-time rally world champion, born in the rural community of Jyväskylä
• Jukka Hiltunen (* 1965), actor
• Harri Rovanperä (* 1966), rally driver
• Hannu-Pekka Björkman (born 1969), actor
• Jani Soininen (* 1972), former ski jumper
• Samuli Mikkonen (* 1973), jazz pianist and composer
• Riikka Sallinen (* 1973), ice hockey, bandy, rinkbandy and pesapallo player
• Markus Hätinen (* 1974), ice hockey player
• Risto Jussilainen (* 1975), ski jumper
• Laura Voutilainen (* 1975), pop singer
• Olli Happonen (* 1976), ski jumper
• Jyrki Välivaara (* 1976), ice hockey player
• Mika Kohonen (* 1977), floorball player
• Sofi Oksanen (* 1977), writer
• Jere Hård (* 1978), swimmer
• Antti Kuisma (* 1978), Nordic combined athlete
• Samppa Lajunen (* 1979), Nordic combined athlete
• Kati Fors (* 1979), pop singer, Tango Queen 2005
• Olavi Louhivuori (* 1981), jazz musician
• Jori Huhtala (* 1984), jazz musician
• Sami Vatanen (* 1991), ice hockey player
• Olli Määttä (* 1994), ice hockey player

Climate table

Jyväskylä
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     43   -7 -14     30th   -6 -14     35   0 -10     37   6th -3     41   14th 3     56   20th 8th     78   21st 10     91   18th 9     67   12 4th     56   6th 0     59   0 -5     47   -4 -11 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Average monthly temperatures and rainfall for Jyväskylä Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) -6.8 -5.9 -0.3 5.7 14.3 19.5 20.8 18.2 12.1 6.2 0.1 -4.2 O 6.7 Min. Temperature (° C) -14.0 -13.8 -9.5 -3.3 2.6 7.9 10.1 8.8 4.4 0.4 -4.9 -10.8 O −1.8 Precipitation ( mm ) 43 30th 35 37 41 56 78 91 67 56 59 47 Σ 640 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 0.8 2.5 4.1 5.8 8.1 9.0 8.3 6.4 3.8 2.3 0.8 0.5 O 4.4 Rainy days ( d ) 11 8th 9 8th 8th 9 11 12 11 11 12 11 Σ 121 Humidity ( % ) 88 87 81 73 65 65 72 80 85 87 91 89 O 80.2 Source: wetterkontor.de

Web links

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

Wikivoyage: Jyväskylä  - travel guide

• Official website of the city of Jyväskylä
• Finnish-German Association Jyväskylä
• Central Finland Aviation Museum
• neokoo.net: 28 hours in Jyväskylä film with city views in time-lapse motion of the times of day, accessed on May 14, 2009

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2011 . (PDF; 199 kB)
2. ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
3. ↑ Geopostcodes - Jyväskylä
4. ↑ Helsingin Sanomat: Suur-Jyväskylän kuntaliitos toteutuu , February 19, 2008
5. ↑ Tilastokeskuksen - Jyväskylä 1980–2017 ( Memento of the original from June 17, 2018 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. , accessed May 30, 2018 
6. ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Results of the 2012 local elections , accessed on November 6, 2012
7. ↑ Kuntavaalit 2017 - Jyväskylä , accessed on May 30, 2018
8. ↑ Jyväskylän ystävyyskunnat ǀ Jyväskylä.fi. Retrieved August 15, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Jyväskylän kaupunki: Tietoa ystävyyskaupungeista. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 6, 2015 ; accessed on March 3, 2018 .