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Subdivisions Of Tampere
The city of Tampere, the second largest city and urban area of Finland after Helsinki, can be divided into various sorts of subdivisions. The subdivisions include neighbourhoods, districts, major districts and postal code areas. The plethora of different official ways to divide the city is a source of some confusion to the inhabitants, as different kinds of subdivisions often share similar or identical names. Districts List of Tampere districts and quarters * 1 Tampere central major district ** Keskusta (Tampere Centre) *** '' Finlayson'' *** ''Nalkala'' *** '' Amuri'' *** ''Kaakinmaa'' *** ''Pyynikinrinne'' *** ''Särkänniemi'' *** ''Tampella'' *** ''Jussinkylä'' *** ''Kyttälä'' *** ''Ratina'' *** ''Osmonmäki'' *** '' Tammela'' *** '' Tulli'' *** ''Kalevanharju'' *** ''Hatanpää'' *** ''Pyynikki'' ** Sampo *** ''Kalevanrinne'' *** ''Liisankallio'' *** ''Petsamo'' *** ''Lappi'' *** ''Lapinniemi'' *** ''Kaleva'' *** '' Järvensivu'' *** '' Vuohenoja'' *** ''Kauppi'' *** ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere Major Districts
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] |
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] |
Kaleva (Tampere)
Kaleva is an eastern part of the city of Tampere, Finland, located south of the Kauppi (district), Kauppi district. It is part of larger Sampo (district), Sampo district. The population of Kaleva is approximately 10,000 (2005). The most notable landmark is the Kaleva Church built between 1959 and 1966, and located in the Liisankallio, Liisankallio district. Kaleva has many educational institutions, the folk high school Sampola and vocational school of economics, two high schools (lukio); Kalevan lukio and Sammon keskuslukio, and two comprehensive schools. It's also the home of the biggest swimming hall in Tampere. Most locals are students from Tampere University or pensioners. In 2007 Kaleva topped being the most poor part of the tow One of the notables residents in Kaleva is Sanna Marin, the current Prime Minister of Finland. See also * Kalevankangas Cemetery References Sampo {{WesternFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lapinniemi
Lapinniemi () is a district in the northern part of Tampere, Finland. It is located on a peninsula formed on the shores of Lake Näsijärvi. Neighboring parts of the city are Petsamo, Lappi and Tampella. It is about a kilometer from the city center of Tampere to Lapinniemi, but it takes about five minutes by bus through Tammela and 10 minutes to the Central Square. The cotton mill of Tampereen Puuvillateollisuus Oy, which manufactured fabrics and yarns, was completed in the Lapinniemi area in 1899 and was integrated into Tampella in 1934. The mill was in operation until the mid-1980s.Huikean kaunis vanha kuva Lapinniemestä! – Se on yhä ajankohtainen, koska nyt on kulunut yli 120 vuotta ... [...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] |
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] |
Liisankallio
Liisankallio is a district of Tampere, Finland. The district, formerly known as ''Tammelan vainio'' ("Tammela Field"), is located east of the Tammela, Tampere, Tammela and Tulli (district), Tulli districts. To the north is the Petsamo, Tampere, Petsamo district, to the east are Kaleva (Tampere), Kaleva and Kalevanrinne, to the south is Kalevanharju. When we often talk about Kaleva, we mean a larger entity formed by Liisankallio, Kaleva and Kalevanrinne. The district got its current name according to the high Liisankallio located in the area in the 1940s. The place is also called Liisanmäki, and the older name of the hill is Hällinmäki. The origin of the names is unknown. The town plan of the area was confirmed in 1940. Kaalamonaukio in the Liisankallio district is named after the architect Elis Kaalamo (1885–1946). Kaalamo was the first town plan architect in Tampere in 1929–1946. Sammonaukio in front of Kaleva Church and the Sammonkatu street, southeast of it, are associ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kalevanrinne
Kalevanrinne is a district of Tampere, Finland. It is located in the Sampo area between the districts of Kaleva and Järvensivu, bordering Liisankallio and Kalevanharju in the west, Hakametsä and Vuohenoja in the east. The city plan of Kalevanrinne was confirmed in 1951 and supplemented in 1955 and 1960.Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet'', s. 92. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999. (in Finnish) Kalevanrinne has a hypermarket Prisma, a pet store Musti ja Mirri and a electronics store Gigantti. There are also 13 planned apartment buildings in the area, which means that the Kalevanrinne residential area, located between Kalevantie and Sammonkatu, is planned to have about 1,360 inhabitants. The planned area is about 3,5 hectares in size. Kalevanrinne was once known in 1918 as the location of a prison camp for red prisoners during the Finnish Civil War The Finnish Civil War; . Other designations: Brethren War, Citizen War, Class War, Freedom War, Red Rebell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sampo (district)
Sampo is one of the main districts in the city center of Tampere in Pirkanmaa, Finland. So-called planning area of Sampo includes the statistical areas of Kalevanrinne, Liisankallio, Petsamo, Tampere, Petsamo, Lappi, Tampere, Lappi, Lapinniemi, Kaleva (Tampere), Kaleva, Järvensivu, Vuohenoja, Kauppi (district), Kauppi and Kissanmaa. Sampo is home to the Sampo School, a primary school with 1–9. classes, which forms a common school path with the Kissanmaa School when moving to the 7th grade. Sampo's school also has a Sairaalankatu office. The name "Sampo" refers to the mythological artifact Sampo mentioned in the Finnish national epic, the ''Kalevala''. A newspaper called ''Sampo'' was also published in Tampere in 1888. See also * Iides * Keskusta, Tampere, Keskusta * Sammonkatu References Sampo {{WesternFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyynikki
Pyynikki ( sv, Pynike) is a district and a nature reserve in Tampere, Finland. It is located in the Pyynikinharju ridge, between the city center and the western district of Pispala. Pyynikinharju is the highest esker in the world, rising 85 meters above the level of lake Pyhäjärvi. Tampere Circuit was a motorsport race track which ran on public streets of Pyynikki. In 1962 and 1963, the Finnish motorcycle Grand Prix on Tampere Circuit was a race of the Road Racing World Championship A road is a linear way for the conveyance of traffic that mostly has an improved surface for use by vehicles (motorized and non-motorized) and pedestrians. Unlike streets, the main function of roads is transportation. There are many types of .... Notable sights * Pyynikki Esker * Pyynikki observation tower * Pyynikki Summer Theatre * Viikinsaari Island References Parks in Tampere {{WesternFinland-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hatanpää
Hatanpää () is a district in Tampere, Finland, located in the southern part of the city center on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. Hatanpää is actually a peninsula that protrudes towards the lake, leaving the waters of Viinikanlahti Bay to the north and Vihilahti Bay to the south. The area is named after Hatanpää Manor, whose land from Härmälä to Sääksjärvi and Nekala was bought for the city in 1913. Administratively, the area has belonged to the city since 1920. In 2014, the population of the area was measured as 2,686 inhabitants. Hatanpää is a well-known district because of its many significant sites, including Hatanpää Manor, Hatanpää Park and Hatanpää Arboretum, primary school and high school, and TAYS' second large hospital area, Hatanpää Hospital, as well as a large number of car dealerships and industry. The busy Hatanpää Highway (''Hatanpään valtatie''), which branches off from Hämeenkatu, leads directly to the area, sideways to the bus statio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
