Muurame

Muuramen kunta

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Basic data
State :	Finland
Landscape :	Central Finland
Administrative community :	Jyväskylä
Geographical location	62 ° 8 ′  N , 25 ° 40 ′  E Coordinates: 62 ° 8 ′  N , 25 ° 40 ′  E
Surface:	194.05 km²
of which land area:	144.06 km²
of which inland waterways:	49.99 km²
Residents :	10,170 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density :	70.6 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number :	500
Language (s) :	Finnish
Website :	www.muurame.fi

Muurame [ ˈmuːrɑmɛ ] is a municipality with 10,170 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) in the catchment area of ​​the city of Jyväskylä in central Finland .

geography

Muurame is located around 16 kilometers southwest of the city of Jyväskylä . Since the incorporation of Korpilahti and the rural municipality of Jyväskylä , the administrative city area surrounds Jyväskyläs Muurame in three directions. To the east, Muurame borders the municipality of Toivakka .

The community center of Muurame is located on an isthmus between the lakes Päijänne and Muuratjärvi . The eponymous Muurame River flows through the community center from the Muuratjärvi to the lower Päijänne. Around a quarter of the community area is taken up by lakes.

The majority of Muurame's residents, around 6,500 people, live in the community center and the surrounding residential areas of Kotiranta-Paavalinvuori, Hautalanmäki-Tervamäki, Rajala-Sulunsalmi, Verkkoniemi-Velkapohja, Jaakkola and Pitkälä-Riihiniemi. The districts of Kinkonmaa (1000 inhabitants; 8 kilometers away), Isolahti (450 inhabitants; 15 kilometers away) and Niittyaho (450 inhabitants; 5 kilometers away) are further away from the center.

The state road 9 ( E 63 ) of Turku to Kuopio resulting in a north-south direction through the center of Muurame and connects it to the nearby Jyväskylä. From the northern edge of Muurame, the road is developed like a motorway. The railway line from Tampere to Jyväskylä runs parallel to the state road through Muurame, but the municipality does not have its own train station.

history

In the area of ​​Muurame there was no settled settlement for a long time, but the wilderness was used by the Hämeers as a hunting ground. The first farmsteads in Muurame were not built until the 15th century. New settlers immigrated from the Savo region in the 16th century . The village of Muurame was part of the Jämsä parish at that time .

When the administration of the political parishes was separated from the church administration in 1865, Muurame became part of the Korpilahti parish . From this it split off as an independent community in 1921. In 1924, the municipality of Säynätsalo , located on an island in Lake Päijänne, split off from Muurame . After the latter had gained additional areas in several phases , it was annexed in 1994 as an exclave of the city of Jyväskylä , with which it had no common land border at the time.

politics

The strongest party in Muurame are the Social Democrats with ten out of 35 seats in the local council, the highest decision-making body on local affairs, closely followed by the Center Party with nine seats. The third major party in Finland, the National Collection Party , is also quite strong with seven MPs. The left alliance with four, the Christian Democrats three as well as the Green League and the right-wing populist True Finns with one seat each are still represented in the city council. Ari Ranta-aho has been the municipal director of Muurame since 2004.

Composition of the municipal council (2009–2012)

Political party	2008 election results	Seats
Social democrats	27.5%	10
Center Party	25.9%	9
National rally party	20.5%	7th
Left alliance	11.1%	4th
Christian Democrats	8.0%	3
True Finns	3.2%	1
Green covenant	3.0%	1

The municipal coat of arms designed by Ahti Hammar shows a silver cloudberry with golden fruit in the red field .

Muurame has twinned cities with the Norwegian municipality of Vinje (since 1986) and Alatskivi in Estonia (since 1992).

economy

Muurame is located in the Jyväskyläs economic catchment area and therefore has an urban commercial structure. The municipality's economy experienced a sharp boom after the economic crisis of the 1990s. The unemployment rate, which was 13.2 percent in 2000, was only 8 percent in 2006. At the same time, the population rose from 8,250 in 2001 to 10,170 (as of December 31, 2018).

Of the working population, 58.7 percent are employed in the service sector and 31.4 percent in industry. The largest industrial employers mainly belong to the mechanical engineering sector or are located in the woodworking industry. Tourism is also of some importance. In summer, numerous families spend their holidays in their own or rented Mökkis on the lake shore, in winter the main attraction is the Riihivuori ski center. This "idiot hill" is equipped with 5 ski lifts and allows downhill runs on 8 slopes with a height difference of up to 120 meters.

Architectural monuments

The church of Muurame

The parish church of Muurame, completed in 1929 according to plans by Alvar Aalto , is of architectural interest . It is Aalto's first church building and combines neoclassical and functionalist style features. The influence of the Renaissance basilicas in Italy, which Aalto visited on his honeymoon in 1924, is particularly noticeable. The floor plan of the single-nave long church, but especially the entrance portal on the west side in its design as a stylized triumphal arch of Alberti Sant'Andrea in Mantua . The entrance of the small south porch is designed as a loggia , the slightly offset bell tower on the east side is designed as a campanile . In the interior, the Italian theme is taken up in the fresco in the apse ; the work of the painter William Lönnberg ( Peter and Johannes heal the paralyzed man in front of the beautiful door of the Temple of Jerusalem ) is in the style of Florentine masters. The strictly designed interior was fundamentally redesigned in 1979, so that Aalto's work can no longer be viewed here in its original state.

Another attraction is the "Saunadorf", an open-air museum with 30 historical saunas from different parts of Finland. The hospital in Kinkomaa near Muurame was completed in 1930 as a tuberculosis sanatorium; today the functionalist hospital complex is a listed building.

Sons and daughters

• Jukka Rauhala (* 1959), wrestler
• Pekka Rauhala (* 1960), wrestler
• Mikko Ronkainen (* 1978), freestyle skier
• Emilia Nyström (* 1983), beach volleyball player
• Erika Nyström (* 1983), beach volleyball player
• Harri Pesonen (* 1988), ice hockey player

literature

• Pekka Ruuskanen (Ed.): Muuramen kirja . JYY: n kotiseutusarja, Jyväskylä 1989, ISBN 952-90-0738-8 . (Contributions to local history)
• Alvar Aalto Foundation (Ed.): Muurame Church, Southwestern Finland Agricultural Co-Operative Building, and Other Buildings and Projects . Routledge, London 1993, ISBN 0-8153-0591-5 . (Materials on the Church of Muurame from the Alvar Aalto Foundation monograph series)

Web links

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

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. ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Result of the 2008 local elections
4. ↑ Website of the community ( Memento of the original from May 2, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Website of the community ( Memento of the original from February 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ riihivuori.fi
7. ↑ Rakennettu kulttuuriympäristö. (Monument register 1993; Finnish)