Kiiminki
Coordinates: 65 ° 8 ′ N , 25 ° 44 ′ E
Kiiminki [ ˈkiːmiŋki ] (Swedish historically Kiminge ) was a municipality in northern Finland. Kiiminki is located around 20 km northeast of the city of Oulu on the lower reaches of the Kiiminkijoki River . Only Finnish is spoken in the former municipality. Since January 1, 2013, Kiiminki is part of the municipality of Oulu.
The former municipality covers an area of 339.05 km 2 , of which 12.20 km 2 are inland water. The formerly independent municipality had the municipality number 255. At the time the municipality was dissolved on December 31, 2012, it had 13,320 inhabitants and the population density was 40.8 inhabitants / km².
The eponymous main town of the former municipality lies on both sides of the river, in recent years the town of Jääli, southeast of the center on Lake Jäälinjärvi, with around 4,800 inhabitants, has become the second focus of settlement. Furthermore, the villages Alakylä (German "Unterdorf"), Haipuskylä, Hannus, Huttukylä, Tirinkylä, Välikylä ("Mitteldorf") and Ylikylä ("Oberdorf") belong to the area of Kiiminki. These settlements were first detached from Parish Ii as a parish in 1858 and became independent as a communal unit in 1867.
Kiiminki is favored by its location in the affluent suburbs of Oulu, one of the fastest growing places in Finland. The population has more than quadrupled since 1970, and today it is growing by around 300 people a year.
One of the sights is the wooden church built in 1760 with a free-standing bell tower (1777), the interior of which is decorated with paintings by Mikael Toppelius . Today, however, services are rarely held there; these mostly take place in the parish church of Jääli, which was built in 1851–52. The roughly three-kilometer-long rapids of the Kiiminkinjoki, known as Koitelinkoski , are one of Finland's most popular whitewater routes and attract thousands of canoeists, especially in summer.
In the vicinity of Kiiminki is a 326 meter high transmission mast, which is one of the tallest structures in Finland.
The wooden church from 1760
The Koitelinkoski
Sons and daughters
- Petri Koivisto (* 1968), ice hockey player
- Mikko Lehtonen (* 1978), ice hockey player
- Ilkka Mikkola (* 1979), ice hockey player
- Tapio Sipilä (* 1958), wrestler
- Janne Tuohino (* 1975), rally driver
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish Land Surveyors): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB) Accessed June 6, 2013 (Finnish).
- ↑ KUNTIA ASUKASLUVUT AAKKOSJÄRJESTYKSESSÄ. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on October 3, 2013 ; Retrieved June 6, 2013 (Finnish). 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.
Web links
- Homepage of Oulu. Retrieved June 6, 2013 (Finnish).