Hyvinkäänkylä (literally "Hyvinkää's village") is a village and a district in
Hyvinkää
Hyvinkää (; sv, Hyvinge, ) is a city and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Uusimaa region, approximately north of the capital Helsinki. The city was chartered in 1960. The population of Hyvinkää is (). Its neighboring municipal ...
,
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 B ...
. It is located less than five kilometers southwest of the center of Hyvinkää and the
Vantaa River
The Vantaa ( fi, Vantaanjoki, ) is a long river in Southern Finland. The river starts from the lake in Hausjärvi and flows into the Gulf of Finland at ' in Helsinki. One of the tributaries of the Vantaa river is Keravanjoki that flows throug ...
flows at its western and southern ends. It comprises the section of the Uudenmaankatu street from Vehkoja to Åvik and its surroundings, as well as Hyvinkää Hospital. Hyvinkäänkylä is the oldest district in Hyvinkää and was first mentioned in 1495 as ''Höffinge''. There was an inn in the 17th and 18th centuries until 1862. Hyvinkäänkylä was once part of
Nurmijärvi
Nurmijärvi () is the most populated rural municipality of Finland, located north of the capital Helsinki. The neighboring municipalities of Nurmijärvi are Espoo, Vantaa, Tuusula, Hyvinkää and Vihti, and it is part of the Greater Helsinki. Th ...
parish before its secession in 1917 as part of the Hyvinkää borough.
Hyvinkäänkylä School began operations in 1875 and in 1891 its own building was completed. It currently serves as a youth home. The current Hyvinkäänkylä stone school was built in 1955.
Hyvinkää - Peruskoulujen yhteystiedot
(in Finnish)
See also
* Kytäjä
Kytäjä () is a village located in Hyvinkää, Finland. Kytäjä is along the connecting road 1361 about 15 kilometers west of the center of Hyvinkää and about 17 kilometers east of Loppi's Läyliäinen. Until 1917, the village belonged to the p ...
References
External links
Kuvia Hyvinkäältä - Hyvinkäänkylä
(in Finnish)
Hyvinkäänkylä (1995) - Hyvinkään Rasti
(in Finnish)
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Hyvinkää
Villages in Finland