Vuosaari

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Vuosaari (Nordsjö)
district number 54 of Helsinki
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Coordinates 60 ° 12 '32 "  N , 25 ° 8' 35"  E Coordinates: 60 ° 12 '32 "  N , 25 ° 8' 35"  E
surface 15.38 km²
Residents 32,956 (Jan. 1, 2006)
Population density 2143 inhabitants / km²
Jobs 3966 (Dec. 31, 2004)
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Sub-areas

Keski-Vuosaari (54.1)
Nordsjön kartano (54.2)
Uutela (54.3)
Meri-Rastila (54.4)
Kallahti (54.5)
Aurinkolahti (54.6)
Rastila (54.7)
Niinisaari (54.8)
Mustavuori (54.9)

Source: Helsinki City Statistics Office: Helsinki alueittain 2006 (PDF, 12 MB, Finnish)

Vuosaari ( Swedish Nordsjö , German  Sundinsel ) is a district in the east of the Finnish capital Helsinki . In addition to the areas known as Vuosaari in the narrower sense, it includes the areas of Rastila, Meri-Rastila, Kallahti and Aurinkolahti. The boundaries of the district ( Finnish: kaupunginosa ) and the district of the same name ( peruspiiri ) are congruent. Only incorporated into the city in 1966, Vuosaari has grown in a relatively short time to become the largest district in Helsinki in terms of both area and population.

Before its incorporation, the area was - apart from a few holiday homes and country estates ( Nordsjön kartano , Rastilan kartano ) - almost completely undeveloped forest. The oldest areas of Vuosaari, created in the 1960s (mostly "old Vuosaari", also called "Middle Vuosaari" or "North Vuosaari") are typical representatives of the Finnish suburban architecture of the time: individual prefabricated buildings scattered in the forest , the one should enable living as “close to nature” as possible. The newer areas of Vuosaari (such as Kallahti and Aurinkolahti, often referred to collectively as the “center of Vuosaari”) are much more densely built up and have an almost “urban” flair. Especially in Aurinkolahti, construction activity continues unabated today. The Cirrus Tower, which was completed there in autumn 2006, was 86 m high and was the tallest residential building in Finland until 2018, when the "Majakka" ( German  lighthouse ) high-rise residential building at the old fishing port of Helsinki reached the 28th floor. A new cargo port was completed on the eastern coast of Vuosaari in 2008, replacing the older shipping ports in Helsinki (Jätkäsaari, Sompasaari) and becoming the most important cargo port in Finland.

Since the completion of the metro connection in 1998, the district has had excellent transport links to downtown Helsinki via the Rastila and Vuosaari stations. Vuosaari's strengths are also the - for suburban conditions - quite good shopping ( Columbus shopping center ) and, above all, the popular green areas on the seashore, especially the Uutela, Kallahdenniemi and Mustavuori nature reserves. However, many residents, especially in the "old Vuosaari", complain about the continuous construction activity and fear that Vuosaari will finally lose its previous closeness to nature.

The proportion of foreigners in Vuosaari is quite high by Finnish standards: 7.7% of the residents have foreign citizenship, 11.6% were born abroad (2005).

Trivia

Vuosaari is also the location of the Finnish feature film of the same name (English: love in Finnish, OmU). The award-winning episode film depicts the lives of very different people in and around Vuosaari and conveys an impressive picture of modern Finnish society between loneliness and the hope for a better life. The architecture and urban structure of Vuosaari play a not insignificant role in the film.

Images by Vuosaari

  • Partial view of Vuosaari, with the center in the foreground (2004). A large part of the forest and open spaces at the lower edge of the picture is now built on.

  • Residential houses in the center of Vuosaari (2004)

  • The Uutela Nature Reserve (2004)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.emporis.com/buildings/101365/cirrus-helsinki-finland
  2. ↑ https://www.emporis.com/buildings/1438475/majakka-helsinki-finland
  3. ↑ IMDb: Vuoraasi. February 3, 2012, accessed January 15, 2017 .