Salo

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Salo
coat of arms map
Salo coat of arms Location of Salo in Finland
Basic data
State : FinlandFinland Finland
Landscape : Varsinais-Suomi
Administrative community : Salo
Geographical location 60 ° 23 '  N , 23 ° 8'  E Coordinates: 60 ° 23 '  N , 23 ° 8'  E
Surface: 2,168.38 km²
of which land area: 1,986.90 km²
of which inland waterways: 74.84 km²
of which sea area: 106.64 km²
Residents : 52,321 (Dec. 31, 2018)
Population density : 26.3 inhabitants / km²
Municipality number : 734
Postcodes : 24100-24280
Language (s) : Finnish
Website : salo.fi

Salo [ ˈsɑlɔ ] is a city in southwest Finland . At the beginning of 2009, the nine municipalities Halikko , Kiikala , Kisko , Kuusjoki , Muurla , Perniö , Pertteli , Särkisalo and Suomusjärvi were incorporated into the city of Salo. After this municipal merger, Salo has 52,321 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018) and an area of ​​over 2000 km².

geography

The core city of Salo on the Salonjoki river at night
View of the rural part of Salo near the village of Immala

Salo is located in southwest Finland in the east of the Varsinais-Suomi landscape 52 kilometers east of Turku and 114 kilometers west of the capital Helsinki . The core city of Salo lies on the lower reaches of the river Salonjoki (Uskelanjoki) shortly before its confluence with the elongated bay of Halikonlahti . Only a few hundred meters west of the mouth of the Salonjoki, the Halikonjoki River also flows into the Halikonlahti Bay.

In addition to the actual core city, the administrative city area, since a large municipal merger at the beginning of 2009, has included an extensive area in the surrounding area with a total area of ​​2062 km² (slightly less than Luxembourg ). This area is largely structured in a rural way with individual settlement centers in between ( taajama ). As is typical for Varsinais-Suomi, the landscape is characterized by agricultural areas, wooded areas and rivers. The metropolitan area also includes parts of the upstream archipelago in the Archipelago Sea . Salo includes the north-eastern tip of the island of Kimitoön around the village fishingiemi and the archipelago of Särkisalo, which includes the islands of Isoluoto , Ulkoluoto and Pettu as well as numerous smaller archipelago.

Neighboring communities of Salo are Sauvo and Paimio in the west, Marttila and Koski Tl in the northwest, Somero in the north, Lohja in the east, Raseborg in the south and Kimitoön towards the sea in the southwest .

history

After the Christianization of Finland, the parish of Uskela was founded in the Salo area in the early 13th century . The later parishes in the area split off from this one by one. Salo probably became a chapel parish of the Uskela parish in the early 15th century and is first mentioned in a document in 1490. The later Muurla also belonged to the Salo chapel community at that time . At the beginning of the 16th century, the wooden chapel in Salo was replaced by a stone church . After the church of Uskela was badly damaged by a landslide on Christmas Eve 1825 and had to be demolished, it was decided not to rebuild the parish church of Uskela in the same place, but on the site of the chapel of Salo and the chapel community of Salo again with the parish of Uskela to unite. The old chapel was demolished and the new church was built in 1831–32 based on plans by Carl Ludwig Engel . As a result, Salo was now the center of the parish of Uskela.

Salo soon grew into a densely populated place and in 1887 it was initially separated from the Uskela community as a so-called non-independent market town ( kauppala ). In the same year Salo was hit by a major fire that devastated large parts of the village. Salo soon recovered from the catastrophe, so that the market town finally achieved communal independence in 1891. After it was connected to the railway network in 1899, Salo prospered and the settlement soon grew beyond the administrative boundaries of the market town. Therefore, parts of Uskela Salo were struck in 1932, which more than tripled the population of Salo. Salo received its town charter in 1960. In 1967, the rest of the municipality of Uskela was also incorporated into Salo.

As part of the ongoing restructuring of the Finnish municipalities, a large municipal merger took place at the beginning of 2009, in which the nine municipalities Halikko , Kiikala , Kisko , Kuusjoki , Muurla , Perniö , Pertteli , Särkisalo and Suomusjärvi merged with Salo. As a result, Salo's population doubled, and the area almost quadrupled from 143 to 1,987 square kilometers.

population

At the beginning of 2009 Salo had 54,777 inhabitants. Almost half of the population (around 26,000 people) live in the urban area of ​​Salos before the incorporation, the rest in the surrounding area. 94.6% of Salo's residents speak Finnish as their mother tongue, while Finland-Swedes are only a small minority at 1.0%. Thus, the city is officially monolingual Finnish-speaking. Of the former municipalities of Salos, Särkisalo (Finby) had a Swedish-speaking population of around a tenth and was officially bilingual. Due to the incorporation into Salo, the bilingual status of Särkisalos was lost.

politics

In Salo's city council, the highest decision-making body in local affairs, the country's three major parties are roughly on par. In the 2013–2016 electoral period, with a significantly reduced total number of seats (53, previously 75), the conservative-liberal rallying party as the largest parliamentary group took 14 seats, followed by the Social Democrats with 12 members. The Center Party , which enjoys strong support especially in rural Finland, also has 12 seats. Also represented in the city council are the right-wing populist “ True Finns ” with 7 seats, the Green Bund with 3, the Left Alliance with 2 and the Christian Democrats with one MP.

The town house of Salo is the seat of the city administration
Composition of the City Council (2013-2016)
Political party Share of votes +/- Seats +/-
Collection party 27.8% - 0.4 14th - 7th
Social democrats 22.9% - 6.7 12 - 110
True Finns 13.4% + 10.00 7th + 5
Center Party 22.3% - 3.3 12 - 8
Green covenant 5.9% + 0.1 3 - 1
Left alliance 4.1% - 0.1 2 - 1
Christian Democrats 3.2% + 0.4 1 - 1

+/−: Difference from the previous election in 2008

The turnout in 2012 was 58.1%.

economy

Production of radio technology began in Salo as early as the 1920s. What started back then with radios continued with computer monitors and cell phones. The main employer in Salo is Nokia . The Nokia production facility, which opened in 1979 and which last employed 850 people in cell phone production, was closed in November 2012. The production of computer monitors ended in 2004.

Town twinning

Sister cities of Salo are:

and the northern European cities

sons and daughters of the town

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 . (PDF; 199 kB)
  2. ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
  3. ↑ Finnish Ministry of Justice: Results of the 2012 local elections
  4. ↑ http://wparea.de/2012/10/nokia-schliest-werk-in-salo-finnland/
  5. ^ Salo website