Sauvo
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 Finland
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| Landscape : | Varsinais-Suomi |
| Administrative community : | Turku |
| Geographical location | 60 ° 21 ′ N , 22 ° 42 ′ E |
| Surface: | 299.75 km² |
| of which land area: | 252.53 km² |
| of which inland waterways: | 1.27 km² |
| of which sea area: | 45.95 km² |
| Residents : | 2,994 (Dec. 31, 2018) |
| Population density : | 11.9 inhabitants / km² |
| Municipality number : | 738 |
| Language (s) : | Finnish |
| Website : | sauvo.fi |
Sauvo [ ˈsɑu̯vɔ ] ( Swedish. Sagu ) is a municipality in southwestern Finland with 2994 inhabitants (as of December 31, 2018). It is located on the Baltic Sea coast in the Varsinais-Suomi landscape 35 kilometers east of Turku . The community is monolingual in Finnish .
The community center of Sauvo is a few kilometers inland. The area of the municipality is surrounded on three sides by the sea, the total length of the coast is over 140 kilometers. Nearby Turku can be reached by car in around 20 minutes, which is why many residents commute to the largest city of Varsinais-Suomi. In the summer the population of Sauvo doubles due to the large number of holiday guests: there are 1400 holiday homes in the municipality .
Sauvo was already permanently settled during the Iron Age , but it is unclear whether there is continuity with medieval settlement. The first written mention of Sauvo comes from the year 1335. At that time there was already a church in the place, it was probably a wooden church from the 13th century. The stone church of Sauvo , which has survived to this day, was built around 1470.
At the end of the 17th century, Karuna was dissolved as a chapel community from Sauvo after the lord of the Karuna manor had donated a wooden church in 1685. Between 1908 and 1910 a new granite church in the national romantic style was built in Karuna according to plans by the architect Josef Stenbäck . After the completion of the new church, the old Karuna church was dismantled and rebuilt in the Seurasaari open-air museum in Helsinki . The Karuna community existed until 1969 when it was incorporated into Sauvo and, to a lesser extent, into Kimito .
Sauvo Church with a bell tower
Interior of the Church of Sauvo
Karuna Church
The old church of Karuna, now in Seurasaari
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maanmittauslaitos (Finnish land surveying office): Suomen pinta-alat kunnittain January 1, 2010 (PDF; 199 kB)
- ↑ Statistical Office Finland: Table 11ra - Key figures on population by region, 1990-2018
