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Osmonmäki
Osmonmäki is a district in the center of Tampere, Finland. The immediate neighbors of the area are Tammela, Tampella, Lappi and Petsamo. There are apartment buildings in the area, but also hundred-year-old wooden buildings. In 2011, the district had 1,613 inhabitants. History Construction of the northern part of Tammela, called Osmonmäki, began in the 1890s as a result of the renovation of Kyttälä Kyttälä is a district in Tampere, Finland. It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, Kyttälä is now a part of the city center between the Tammerkoski river an .... In the second half of the 1910s, a suburb of Lappi was built on the north side of the district, to which people traveled along the Lapintie street. Lapintie, which crossed the railway through the Kastinsilta bridge, was also a route from Osmonmäki to the city center. References External links Keskusta (Tampere) {{We ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampella (district)
Tampella (until 2002 known as Naistenlahti) is a neighbourhood in the northern part of the city center of Tampere, Finland. It consists of the old Tampella factory area, the Armonkallio residential area and the Naistenlahti harbor area. The neighboring parts of the internally heterogeneous district located on the shores of Lake Näsijärvi are Lapinniemi, Lappi, Osmonmäki, Tammela, Jussinkylä, Finlayson and Särkänniemi. The Naistenlahti Power Plant operates on the shores of Lake Näsijärvi in Tampella. The Vapriikki Museum Centre is also located in the district. (in Finnish) See also *[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petsamo, Tampere
Petsamo is a district of Tampere, Finland. The district is named after the Pechengsky ( fi, Petsamo), which Finland was acquired in connection with the Treaty of Tartu. At the same time as Soviet Russia ceded Pechengsky to Finland in 1920, some large Tamperean industrial plants began to build a residential area for their working population on the northeast corner of the city. When the area seemed to be far from the center, the informal name of the district was born as a result of the image. The neighboring parts of Petsamo are Kauppi, Kaleva, Liisankallio, Tammela, Osmonmäki, Lappi and Lapinniemi. Petsamo is bordered on the north by Kauppi, on the east by Kauppi and Kaleva, on the south by the Ilmarinkatu street and in the west by Tammela. The Litukka's allotment garden, founded in 1922, is located in the Petsamo and Kauppi districts. The name ''Litukka'' is derived from Vilhelmiina and Erland Litukka, who moved from Pirkkala to the area in the late 19th century and built a sm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
District
A district is a type of administrative division that, in some countries, is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or counties, several municipalities, subdivisions of municipalities, school district, or political district. By country/region Afghanistan In Afghanistan, a district (Persian ps, ولسوالۍ ) is a subdivision of a province. There are almost 400 districts in the country. Australia Electoral districts are used in state elections. Districts were also used in several states as cadastral units for land titles. Some were used as squatting districts. New South Wales had several different types of districts used in the 21st century. Austria In Austria, the word is used with different meanings in three different contexts: * Some of the tasks of the administrative branch of the national and regional governments are fulfilled by the 95 district administrative offices (). The area a dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 in an area of . Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, economic, and cultural hubs in the whole inland region. Tampere and its environs belong to the historical province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the Häme Province from 1831 to 1997, and over time it has often been considered to belong to Tavastia as a province. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'' published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland across Estonia to the south. Finland covers an area of with a population of 5.6 million. Helsinki is the capital and largest city, forming a larger metropolitan area with the neighbouring cities of Espoo, Kauniainen, and Vantaa. The vast majority of the population are ethnic Finns. Finnish, alongside Swedish, are the official languages. Swedish is the native language of 5.2% of the population. Finland's climate varies from humid continental in the south to the boreal in the north. The land cover is primarily a boreal forest biome, with more than 180,000 recorded lakes. Finland was first inhabited around 9000 BC after the Last Glacial Period. The Stone Age introduced several differ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tammela, Tampere
Tammela is a district in Tampere, Finland, located east of the city centre. Tammela was born since the 1870s as a working-class neighbourhood, today it is especially popular among the students of the nearby Tampere University. As of 2014, the population of Tammela was 5,646. Tammela was almost completely destroyed in the 1918 Finnish Civil War Battle of Tampere and also severely damaged in the air raids of World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing .... Some wooden houses from the early 1900s have remained in the so-called Puu-Tammela area in the eastern side of the district. Today Tammela is known of the Tammelantori Market Square and its '' mustamakkara'' kiosks, and the Tammela Football Stadium. References External links Official Homepage of the Tammela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lappi, Tampere
Lappi is a district in Tampere, Finland, near the Lake Näsijärvi and the Kauppi's park area. About 700 people live there. When talking about Lappi, reference is usually made to the Lapinniemi district. The district is home to the Koukkuniemi's nursing home, which is one of the largest nursing homes in Europe. There are also yacht clubs in the area (e.g. Tampere Yacht Club) and a spa and apartments in an old factory building were completed for the 1990 housing fair. The Lappi district got its name from Lapinniemi, which piers Lake Näsijärvi. The name may refer to early Lappish settlement. Part of the Lappi district is called Käpylä, which refers to the first inhabitant of the area, August Käpynen, a worker who moved there in 1915. The town plan for Lappi was confirmed in 1933. The Naistenlahti area, which officially forms one district of Tampere together with the old factory area of Tampella, became the property of the city of Tampere in 1877, at the same time as the city ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyttälä
Kyttälä is a district in Tampere, Finland. It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, Kyttälä is now a part of the city center between the Tammerkoski river and the railway. Population of Kyttälä is 3,348 (31 December 2014). Aleksanterinkatu is one of Kyttälä's main streets. The direct connection to the Liisankallio district and from there to Teiskontie and Sammonkatu streets runs along Itsenäisyydenkatu and connection to the Jussinkylä district runs along Tuomiokirkonkatu. Notable sights * Tampere Orthodox Church *Hotel Tammer *Tampere railway station *Hotel Ilves *Koskikeskus (shopping centre) * Posteljooninpuisto * Sori Square See also * Ratina (district) * Tulli (district) Tulli () is a district in the center of Tampere, Finland.Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet'', p. 86. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999, Tampere. (in Finnish) It takes its name from the Customs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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