Kilpisjärvi

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Location of Kilpisjärvi in ​​Finland

Kilpisjärvi [ ˈkilpisjærvi ] ( North Sami Gilbbesjávri ) is a village in the far north-west of Finland . It belongs to the Enontekiö municipality in the province of Lapland . In 2000 Kilpisjärvi had 114 inhabitants.

geography

Kilpisjärvi is located in the bulge called Käsivarsi in northwest Finland about nine kilometers from the border triangle between Finland, Sweden and Norway (Finnish Kolmen valtakunnan rajapyykki, best known under the Swedish, roughly synonymous name Treriksröset ) on the banks of the lake Kilpisjärvi of the same name at an altitude of 473vi m above sea level. Right next to the village, the 1,029 m high rises Fjell Saana (North Sami SANA ) from the landscape. A 50 km long hiking trail leads from Kilpisjärvi to the highest mountain in Finland, the 1328 m high Haltitunturi , through the otherwise pathless wilderness.

State road 21 ( European route 8 ), the only road in Käsivarsi, runs through Kilpisjärvi and crosses the Norwegian border a few kilometers beyond the village . The nearest settlement is the village of Skibotn, 50 km away on the Arctic Coast in the Norwegian municipality of Storfjord . After Hetta , the municipal center of Enontekiö, there are 165 km. 15 km southeast of Kilpisjärvi is the highest stretch of road in Finland at 565.6 m.

Kilpisjärvi has its own primary school and a hotel with 36 rooms. The northernmost research facility of the University of Helsinki is the biological station in Kilpisjärvi, which is particularly concerned with voles . There is also a radio observatory ( KAIRA ).

history

This boundary stone from 1926, here a picture from the last days of the Lapland War, marks the triangle near Kilpisjärvi

Kilpisjärvi was at the center of the action for a short time at the end of the Second World War. The German troops retreating from northern Finland in the course of the Lapland War had their last positions in Kilpisjärvi, where on April 25, 1945 the last fighting of the war took place on Finnish soil. The last German soldiers withdrew across the border into Norway on April 27.

On May 3, 2015, Kilpisjärvis Primary School burned down to the ground. The fire spread to the school from a motor home parked nearby. The fire also destroyed several thousand euros in cash that had previously been collected by students for a day's hiking and stored in the school because the closest bank that would have accepted a cash deposit is in Rovaniemi , 440 km away . Nordea promised the school a donation of 4,000 euros after the fire. The newly built school building was inaugurated in 2017.

Picture gallery

  • Kilpisjärvi (2005)

  • Kilpisjärvi lies at the foot of the Saana -Fjell (2007)

  • Aurora over Kilpisjärvi (2012)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kilpisjärveläiset liikkuttuivat uuden koulun avajaisissa. In: yle.fi. August 28, 2017, accessed July 2, 2019 (Finnish).

Coordinates: 69 ° 3 '  N , 20 ° 48'  E