Talinka

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Talsinki is a suitcase word made up of the city names Tallinn and Helsinki . It refers to the transnational metropolitan area on the Gulf of Finland . The capitals of Finland and Estonia are separated from each other by the approximately 80 kilometers wide Baltic Sea bay.

For the region, the reverse portmanteau word version is sometimes used in the Estonian Hellinn and Finnish Hellinna is. In addition, Finns joke about “Helsinki-South” when they mean Tallinn.

history

Tallink Shuttle Service passenger ship , the Tallink Superstar , from Tallinn on its way to Helsinki

The term Talsinki was first used in 1992 by the Estonian writer Jaan Kaplinski to describe the newly emerging cultural and economic area between Tallinn and Helsinki. The idea of ​​Talsinki is based on a common Finno-Ugric language and related culture. During the Soviet occupation, Estonians in the north of the country were able to receive Finnish radio and television, which enabled many people to learn Finnish. The two cities have also been connected to each other in terms of traffic since 1965, after the ferry service was reopened during the détente policy of Brezhnev and Urho Kekkonen . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , Finnish capital helped Estonia build the state . Lured by the lower price level, many Finns viewed Tallinn not only as an attractive travel destination, but also as a shoppers' paradise, while Estonians primarily went to Finland to work. In the meantime, the reverse is also common, because the emigration of qualified skilled workers to Finland has led to the fact that incomes in Estonia have risen along with the labor shortage and the price level has largely leveled out. Today, thousands commute between the two cities, which was made even easier by Estonia's accession to the Schengen area in 2004, the abolition of border controls in 2007 and Estonia's accession to the euro area in 2011.

Future planning

Rough sketch of alternative tunnels

On the way to a common metropolitan region called Talsinki, Copenhagen and Malmö in the Öresund region are often cited as role models . Plans for the future therefore envisage a railway tunnel between Helsinki and Tallinn, similar to the one there with the Öresund connection . However, since the straight line distance between the two cities is 80 km, this structure would be almost twice as long as the Eurotunnel under the English Channel . It would not only link the two cities closer together, but also route Finnish traffic to East Central Europe via European route 67 instead of the Swedish sea route. The travel time should not exceed 30 minutes, but commissioning before 2030 is not realistic. At present, around twenty ship and flight connections a day in both directions ensure passenger and goods traffic between the cities.

Further models for economic development include the entire region on the Gulf of Finland, i.e. northern Estonia, southern Finland and the Russian Oblast Leningrad .

Artificial island of Talsinki

According to a study by the Finnish architect Martti Kalliala, an artificial island for 20,000 residents could be built on the route for the planned railway tunnel, for which he suggested the name Talsinki . According to his ideas, the island will have the shape of the three letters TKI and will be home to apartments, summer houses, pyramid-shaped office buildings, a school, a park, a swimming pool, a small port, a conference center and a wind farm. For his idea, he was inspired by the Palm Islands and The World (archipelago) building projects in Dubai .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mathijs Pelkmans: Conversion after socialism: discruptions, modernisms and technologies of faith in the former Soviet Union. Berghahn Books, Oxford 2009, ISBN 9781845456177 , p. 89 ff. (English)
  2. ↑ a b Regionplane- och trafikkontoret: Storstadskonbewerbens och samarbete i norra Europa,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 5.4 MB) p. 38 (Swedish), accessed on July 19, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rtk.sll.se  
  3. ↑ Arne Bengtsson: Bronssoldatenshämd - Baltiska betraktelser, (PDF; 1.4 MB) 2007, p. 29 (English), accessed on July 19, 2010
  4. ^ Juhan Tere: Artificial island could be built between Tallinn and Helsinki. In: The Baltic Course, April 6, 2009, accessed July 19, 2010
  5. ↑ Helsinki Info: Talsinki, apragmatic utopia,  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB) p. 2, March 30, 2009 (English), accessed on July 19, 2010@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.hel2.fi