Lokalahti ( sv, Lokalax) is a village and a former municipality of

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 ...

in the former

Turku and Pori Province Turku and Pori Province (, , ) was a province of independent Finland from 1917 to 1997. The province was however founded as a county in 1634 when today's Finland was an integrated part of Sweden. It is named after the cities of Turku () and Por ...

, now in the

Finland Proper Southwest Finland, calqued as Finland Proper ( fi, Varsinais-Suomi ; sv, Egentliga Finland), is a region in the southwest of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, Pirkanmaa, Tavastia Proper (Kanta-Häme), Uusimaa, and Åland. The regi ...

region. It was consolidated with the town of Uusikaupunki in 1981.

Geography

Lokalahti bordered Uusikaupunki, Kalanti,

Vehmaa Vehmaa (; sv, Vemo) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Southwest Finland region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population dens ...

and Taivassalo. It also had a border with Kustavi via the sea.

History

''Lokalahti'' was originally the name of a long bay of the Baltic Sea, reaching out to the village. The bay no longer exists due to the post-glacial rebound in the area, it is now the lake Ahmasvesi and the nearly closed-off Kuutniemenaukko bay. Lokalahti was originally a part of the

parish. Lokalahti already had a chapel in 1409. It became an independent parish in 1630, but rejoined Vehmaa in 1690. Lokalahti became independent again in 1905, remaining independent until it was consolidated with the town of Uusikaupunki in 1981. The Lokalahti parish became one of Uusikaupunki's areal parishes in the process.

Church

The current church of Lokalahti was finished in 1763. It was designed by Johan Höckert. The bell tower is a remnant of the earlier church, built in the 17th century. The church was renovated in the 19th century by Georg Theodor Chiewitz and later in the 1950s by Totti Sora.

Notable people

Ritva Elomaa Ritva Tuulikki "Kike" Elomaa (née ''Sainio''; born 16 July 1955, in Lokalahti) is a Finnish professional female bodybuilding champion, pop singer, and member of the Finnish Parliament. Early life and education Kike Elomaa was born in Lokalah ...

Ilkka Kanerva Ilkka Armas Mikael Kanerva (28 January 1948 – 14 April 2022) was a Finnish politician and a member of the Parliament of Finland. He was born in Lokalahti, now a part of Uusikaupunki in Southwest Finland. He was the Minister for Foreign Affairs ...

* Juho Kaskinen * Arvo Sainio * Urpo Vähäranta

Events

The Karjurock festival is held on the Nopperla farm of Lokalahti in late July.

References

{{FinlandProper Uusikaupunki Former municipalities of Finland