Kaakinmaa is a
district in
Tampere,
Finland, located in the
city center. It includes the area south of Pyynikki Church Park (''Pyynikin kirkkopuisto'') between the
Hämeenpuisto
Hämeenpuisto is a street and public park in Tampere, Finland that is over in length. Its length and central location has earned the park the name "Central Park of Tampere". The park was designed by Carl Ludvig Engel in 1830. Originally the nam ...
park and the Mariankatu street. To the south, the area extends to
Eteläpuisto on the shores of
Lake Pyhäjärvi
A lake is an area filled with water, localized in a basin, surrounded by land, and distinct from any river or other outlet that serves to feed or drain the lake. Lakes lie on land and are not part of the ocean, although, like the much larger ...
. The neighboring parts of the city are
Nalkala
Nalkala is a neighbourhood in the city of Tampere, Finland, covering the southern part of the city center from Hämeenkatu to the Laukontori market square. The district is bordered by the lower reaches of Tammerkoski, the Ratina estuary, Lake ...
in the east,
Amuri in the north and
Pyynikki and
Pyynikinrinne in the west. Sometimes Kaakinmaa is incorrectly considered to belong to Pyynikki and Pyynikinrinne; however, Kaakinmaa has its own district.
The most important street running through the area is Satamakatu, which rises west of the slope of
Pyynikinharju from
Laukontori
Laukontori (or the Laukko Square, also known as ''Alaranta'') is a market square in the southern part of the city center of Tampere, Finland, on the shores of Lake Pyhäjärvi. It is located just a few hundred meters from Tampere Central Square. ...
, which together with Mariankatu and Hämeenpuisto form a busy traffic route from Pyynikintori to
Ratina
Ratina is a suburban community in the municipality of Kraljevo, Serbia
Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southe ...
. Along the Koulukatu street there is the Koulukatu Field, where the
hockey field and
ice rink are frozen in winter.
In Kaakinmaa, the
Tampere Workers' Hall and the
Tampere Workers' Theatre
The Tampere Workers' Theatre ( fi, Tampereen Työväen Teatteri) or the TTT-Theatre is one of the two main active theatres in Kaakinmaa, Tampere, Finland, along with the Tampere Theatre
The Tampere Theatre ( fi, Tampereen Teatteri) is one of th ...
are located, as well as the old
Pyynikki Brewery
Pyynikin Brewing Company ( fi, Pyynikin käsityöläispanimo Oy) is a Finnish brewery located in Tampere. It has also distilling production.
Pyynikin Brewing Company was founded in late 2012 as a craft brewery and started producing beer in the fo ...
and the Klingendahl factory property. Next door to Klingendahl is the former Tampere Epidemic Hospital, built in 1910, which was used as a student
dormitory
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until the summer of 2009 after the hospital closed. Almost all of the residential buildings in the area are
apartment buildings, built mainly in the 1960s and 1970s to replace the earlier wooden houses built in the late 19th century. The
primary schools operating in Kaakinmaa are the Alexander School of the 1st–6th grades and the Pyynikki School of the 7th–9th grades (former ''Tampere High School for Girls''). At the corner of Satamakatu and Koulukatu is the
Swedish-language
Swedish ( ) is a North Germanic language spoken predominantly in Sweden and in parts of Finland. It has at least 10 million native speakers, the fourth most spoken Germanic language and the first among any other of its type in the Nordic countr ...
school (
Svenska samskolan i Tammerfors), which includes grades 1-9 of the
comprehensive school
A comprehensive school typically describes a secondary school for pupils aged approximately 11–18, that does not select its intake on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude, in contrast to a selective school system where admission is res ...
and the
upper secondary school.
A
brewery has previously operated in Kaakinmaa. In 1897, a brewery was established on the corner of Tiilitehtaankatu and Papinkatu, which later became Oy Pyynikki.
[Oy Pyynikki - Pörssitieto](_blank)
(in Finnish) In 1903, another brewery operating in Tampere, Oy Iso Oluttehdas, and Oy Pyynikki merged to form ''Näsijärven Osake-Oluttehdas'',
which in 1920 took the name Oy Pyynikki Ab. Until 1992, Pyynikin Brewery produced the ''Amiraali'' beer brand, which is popular with the local population and is still available in
Japan
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with a label with the image of Admiral
Tōgō Heihachirō (1848–1934) from the
Tupgō flagship ''Mikasa'''s museum store in
Yokosuka. The brewing business in Tampere was discontinued soon after Pyynikki Oy came under
Sinebrychoff. The same fate in the hands of Sinebrychoff was later experienced by the
Pori Brewery
)
, website www.pori.fi
Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...
. In 2012, the Pyynikki craft brewery was established in Tampere to continue the tradition of the Pyynikki brewery, although for the time being, due to the lack of suitable premises, it operates in
Rahola.
The name of Kaakinmaa derives from the ''kaakinpuu'' tree, also known as
pillory
The pillory is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for punishment by public humiliation and often further physical abuse. The pillory is related to the stocks ...
, used to punish evildoers on the site of Tampere's co-educational high school until the second half of the 19th century. After the settlement of Kaakinmaa, the ''kaakinpuu'' tree was transferred to a sand pit along the current
Pirkankatu, where it was located until the new
penalty law abolished
cropping in 1894. The
town plan for Kaakinmaa was completed in 1868. In 1870, the area of Kaakinmaa was still uninhabited, but twenty years later there were already about a thousand
inhabitant
Domicile is relevant to an individual's "personal law," which includes the law that governs a person's status and their property. It is independent of a person's nationality. Although a domicile may change from time to time, a person has only one ...
s. At the beginning of the 20th century, the inhabitants of Kaakinmaa were mainly engaged in various professions.
On the western side of Kaakinmaa, along Mariankatu, in 1936–1973, there was a Christmas Sign Home owned by the Finnish Tuberculosis Resistance Association (''Filha ry''),
Filha - keuhkoterveys asiantuntija
(in Finnish) which cared for the newborn children of mothers with tuberculosis. After the operation of the nursing home ended, the building was demolished and there is now an apartment building on its site.
References
External links
Koskesta voimaa: Kaakinmaa
(in Finnish)
Kaakinmaa's location
at Fonecta
- '' Aamulehti'' (in Finnish)
Keskusta (Tampere)
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