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The great Oulu fire of 1652 was a conflagration that destroyed the majority of the young city of
The great Oulu fire of 1652 was a conflagration that destroyed the majority of the young city of Oulu
Oulu ( , ; sv, Uleåborg ) is a city, municipality and a seaside resort of about 210,000 inhabitants in the region of North Ostrobothnia, Finland. It is the most populous city in northern Finland and the fifth most populous in the country after: ...
, Finland on 2 October 1652. Almost all of the houses of the town's bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie ( , ) is a social class, equivalent to the middle or upper middle class. They are distinguished from, and traditionally contrasted with, the proletariat by their affluence, and their great cultural and financial capital. They ...
, the provision warehouses in which the Crown's grain and money was stored and the drawbridge
A drawbridge or draw-bridge is a type of moveable bridge typically at the entrance to a castle or tower surrounded by a moat. In some forms of English, including American English, the word ''drawbridge'' commonly refers to all types of moveable ...
of Oulu Castle
Oulu Castle ( sv, Uleåborgs slott,The original 16th-century Swedish name contains the Swedish word for castle twice as both "borg" and "slott" mean castle. This is likely because the probable name "Uleåborg" (Oulu Castle) of the short-lived 14th ...
were destroyed.
The city was rebuilt after the fire according to the city plan drawn up by surveyor Claes Claesson in 1651. The new city plan doubled the surface area of the town. At the same time, the streets and city block
A city block, residential block, urban block, or simply block is a central element of urban planning and urban design.
A city block is the smallest group of buildings that is surrounded by streets, not counting any type of thoroughfare within t ...
s were laid out in a more regular fashion. The shoreline of the Oulu River was turned into a marketplace that had its own measuring house
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, a weigh house, and, of course, a packhouse.
See also
*Great Oulu fire (disambiguation) The great Oulu fire may refer to the following fires that have ravaged the city of Oulu, Finland]:
* Great Oulu fire of 1652
* Great Oulu fire of 1705
* Great Oulu fire of 1882
The great Oulu fire of 1882 was a conflagration that started in ...
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