Lapinlahti

Lapinlahden kunta

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Basic data
State :	Finland
Landscape :	North Savo
Administrative community :	Obersavo
Geographical location	63 ° 22 ′  N , 27 ° 24 ′  E Coordinates: 63 ° 22 ′  N , 27 ° 24 ′  E
Surface:	1,245.12 km²
of which land area:	1,096.51 km²
of which inland waterways:	148.61 km²
Residents :	9,617 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	8.8 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number :	402
Language (s) :	Finnish
Website :	lapinlahti.fi

Lapinlahti [ ˈlɑpinlɑhti ] ( Swedish Lapinlax ) is a municipality in the Finnish region of Savo with 9617 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018). It is in the countryside Savo 24 km south of the city Iisalmi and 60 kilometers north of Kuopio .

geography

View from Väisälänmäki

The Onkivesi lake divides the municipality into a western and an eastern part. In addition to the parish of Lapinlahti on the east bank of the Onkivesi with 4000 inhabitants, Lapinlahti has two other settlement centers, Nerkoo and Alapitkä. All three are on State Road 5 , which crosses Finland in a north-south direction. The municipal area also includes the villages Alapitkä, Heinäaho, Horsmanmäki, Karvasalmi, Kivistö, Kiukonmäki, Lappetelä, Leppälahti, Luhi, Martikkala, Mäkikylä, Mäntylahti, Ollikäkiäi, Pajuäsjärvi, Pällikiväkiäi, Pällikiväki, Pällvänkiväi With the merger with the municipality of Varpaisjärvi on January 1, 2011, Varpaisjärvi and the villages of Juminen, Korpinen, Kärsämäki, Lukkarila, Pitkälänmäki, Sutela, Korpijärvi, Petäys-Paloinen, Karsanlahti, Syvärinpää, Jonsa, Urimolah and were added.

The eastern part of the municipality is hilly. There is also the 220 meter high Väisälänmäki hill . The Väisälänmäki belongs to the official list of the Finnish " national landscapes" thanks to its picturesque view over the surrounding lake landscape .

politics

The dominant political force in Lapinlahti is the rural-liberal Center Party . After the 2017 election, it is by far the strongest party in the local council with almost 40% of the vote and 13 of the 31 seats. The second strongest party was the right-wing populist True Finns with five seats. Also represented in the municipal council are the Christian Democrats with four seats, the Social Democrats and the Left Alliance with three members each, the conservative National Collection Party with two seats and the Green Bund with one representative. The Communist Party of Finland does not have a representative on the local council with 0.3% of the vote.

Composition of the municipal council since 2017

Political party	Election result 2017	Seats
Finnish Center Party	39.1% (−1.8)	13 (−2)
True Finns	15.2% (−3.1)	5 (−2)
Christian Democrats	14.7% (+11.5)	4 (+3)
Social democrats	11.1% (+0.6)	3 (−1)
Left alliance	10.0% (+0.3)	3 (± 0)
National rally party	6.1% (−3.4)	2 (−1)
Green covenant	3.7% (+0.8)	1 (± 0)
Communist Party of Finland	0.3% (−0.3)	0 (± 0)

traffic

Lapinlahti train station is still a traditional wooden structure.

Lapinlahti is connected to the Finnish rail network via the Savo Railway, which runs from Kouvola to Iisalmi . In the municipality, State Road 5 , which goes from southern Finland to Lapland in the north, runs largely parallel to the railway line.

Sports

International FIS cross-country skiing races have been held regularly in Lapinlahti since 2002 . Some internationally successful athletes have achieved their first successes there, such as For example, the Norwegian Petter Northug , who was 18 years old and finished second in a race in the Scandinavian Cup in February 2005.

Sons of the community

The self-portrait of Pekka Halonen from 1906 now hangs in the Ateneum in Helsinki

• Paavo Ruotsalainen (1777-1852), Finnish farmer and lay preacher and leader of the Finnish revival movement .
• Juhani Aho (1861–1921), Finnish writer and journalist, co-founder of the Päivälehti newspaper .
• Pekka Halonen (1865–1933), Finnish painter, best known for his landscape paintings.
• Eemil Halonen (1875–1950), Finnish sculptor

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2013 . (PDF; 199 kB)
2. ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
3. ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2017 local elections
4. ↑ Overview of results at www.fis-ski.com, accessed on February 11, 2013.
5. ^ Result of the Scandinavian Cup race over 15 km on February 27, 2005 at www.fis-ski.com, accessed on February 11, 2013.