Pohja

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Coat of arms of the former municipality of Pohja

Pohja [ ˈpɔhjɑ ], Swedish Pojo , is a former municipality in southern Finland . At the beginning of 2009, it merged with Ekenäs and Karis to form the city of Raseborg .

Pohja is located in the Uusimaa countryside 80 kilometers west of the capital Helsinki . The municipality had an area of ​​247.75 km² (of which 23.09 km² inland water). The population was last 4,936, of which 38% Finland-Sweden . Officially, Pohja was bilingual with Finnish as the majority and Swedish as the minority language.

The medieval stone church of Pohja

The main town of the municipality was the parish village of Pohja, which has 1816 inhabitants and is located at the end of the narrow sea bay Pohjanpitäjänlahti (Pojovik). The bay protrudes over 20 kilometers into the inland and has a deep-water fairway for cargo ships. The former municipal area of ​​Pohja also includes the settlements of Billnäs (Finnish Pinjainen, 1267 inhabitants), Fiskars (Finnish Fiskari, 569 inhabitants), Åminnefors (481 inhabitants), Björsby-Mörby (384 inhabitants), Antskog (Ansku) (113 inhabitants ), Ekerö (110 inhabitants) and Kuovila (92 inhabitants).

Pohja is considered to be the birthplace of Finland's metal industry. In the 17th century the ironworks Antskog (1630), Billnäs (1641) and Fiskars (1649), the so-called “ Solingen Finland”, were built here. The Fiskars group of the same name still exists and today manufactures scissors, axes and knives. To this day, the company is Pohja's largest employer.

Pohja is on the Königsstrasse , the old route of the Swedish kings from Turku to Vyborg . Today the Königsstrasse is a tourist route. The main sights of Pohja are the historic ironworks and the stone church built around 1480.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ As of 2008, source: Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office) (PDF; 247 kB)
  2. ↑ As of December 31, 2008. Source: Väestörekisterikeskus (Finnish population register). ( Memento of the original from September 20, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / vrk.fi

Coordinates: 60 ° 6 '  N , 23 ° 31'  E