Ylöjärvi () is a
town
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Origin and use
The word "town" shares an ori ...
and a
municipality
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The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in the
Pirkanmaa
Pirkanmaa (; sv, Birkaland; la, Birkaria, link=no), also known as ''Tampere Region'' in government documents, is a region of Finland. It borders the regions of Satakunta, South Ostrobothnia, Central Finland, Päijät-Häme, Kanta-Häme and Sou ...
region
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, northwest of
Tampere
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 o ...
and north of the capital city
Helsinki
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in
Finland
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. The town has a population of ()
and covers an area of of which is water. The
population density
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is .
Ylöjärvi is mostly a
rural town. It does not have a clear center; the
Tampere–Vaasa highway (
E12) and the Tampere–
Seinäjoki
Seinäjoki (; "Wall River"; la, Wegelia, formerly sv, Östermyra) is a city located in South Ostrobothnia, Finland; east of Vaasa, north of Tampere, west of Jyväskylä and southwest of Oulu. Seinäjoki originated around the Östermyra bru ...
railway
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divide the municipality's
town center
A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town. Town centres are traditionally associated with shopping or retail. They are also the centre of communications with major public transport hubs such as train or bus st ...
into two major distinct parts: the church village and Soppeenmäki. The railway, completed in 1971, has no passenger seats in the Ylöjärvi area, so
bus
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es handle all
public transport
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. The population has increased rapidly in recent years. In 1990 it was slightly over 18,000, while on December 31, 2011 it was 30,942.
The neighbouring municipalities are
Hämeenkyrö
Hämeenkyrö (; sv, Tavastkyro) is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and is located from Tampere. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The ne ...
,
Ikaalinen
Ikaalinen (; sv, Ikalis) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, located northwest of Tampere. The town has a population of
() and covers an area of of
which
is water. The population density is
.
The munici ...
,
Kihniö
Kihniö is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the region of Pirkanmaa. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Polit ...
,
Nokia
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,
Parkano
Parkano is a town and municipality in Finland.
It is located north of Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The population of Parkano is () and the municipality covers an area of of which is inland water (). The population density is .
The munici ...
,
Ruovesi
Ruovesi is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is .
Neighbouring municipalities are Juupajoki, Mänttä-Vilpp ...
,
Tampere
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 o ...
and
Virrat
Virrat (; sv, Virdois) is a town and municipality of Finland. It is part of the Pirkanmaa region, and it is located north of Tampere and west of Jyväskylä. The distance between Virrat and Helsinki is . The town has a population of
...
. The municipality of
Viljakkala
Viljakkala is a former municipality of Finland.
It was located in the province of Western Finland and was part of the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality had a population of 2,043 (2003) and covered an area of 224.70 km² of which 24.61 ...
was consolidated with Ylöjärvi on January 1, 2007. The municipality of
Kuru
Kuru may refer to:
Anthropology and history
* Kuru (disease), a type of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy associated with the cannibalistic funeral practices of the Fore people
* Kuru (mythology), part of Meithei mythology
* Kuru Kingdom, ...
was consolidated with Ylöjärvi on January 1, 2009. The
coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central ele ...
of Ylöjärvi was designed by
Gustaf von Numers
Gustaf von Numers (31 July 1912 – 21 May 1978) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish civil servant and leading heraldic artist.
Life
Gustaf von Numers studied heraldry in the 1930s under Arvid Berghman and was considered one of the leading Fin ...
and it was confirmed in 1954.
Results of the
2021 Finnish municipal elections
Municipal elections were held in Finland on 13 June 2021 after being rescheduled from 18 April due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Context
The last municipal elections were held in 2017 and were won by the National Coalition Party with a 20.7 percent ...
, resulted in the
True Finns
The Finns Party, formerly known as the True Finns ( fi, Perussuomalaiset, PS, sv, Sannfinländarna, Sannf.), is a right-wing populist political party in Finland. It was founded in 1995 following the dissolution of the Finnish Rural Party.
The ...
being the largest group on Ylöjärvi council, in Ylöjärvi.
History
The chapel parish of Ylöjärvi was founded in 1779 by separating it from
Pirkkala
Pirkkala (; sv, Birkala) is a municipality of Finland. It is located some south-west from Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is , which makes ...
.
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(in Finnish) The first
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* Chris ...
in Ylöjärvi, located on the site of the current church, was completed in 1781, but was destroyed in a fire caused by
lightning
Lightning is a naturally occurring electrostatic discharge during which two electric charge, electrically charged regions, both in the atmosphere or with one on the land, ground, temporarily neutralize themselves, causing the instantaneous ...
in 1842.
Ylöjärvi was founded as a
municipality
A municipality is usually a single administrative division having corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate.
The term ''municipality'' may also mean the go ...
in 1869. Since January 1, 2004, it has been known as a town (''kaupunki''). The Finnish Museum of Refrigeration also locates at Ylöjärvi.
Demographics
The following graph shows the population development of the city since 1805. The diagram uses the area division in force at the time.
Culture
Food
In the 1980s, overly sweeted ''
limppu'' and the "
sauna smoked"
ham
Ham is pork from a leg cut of pork, cut that has been food preservation, preserved by wet or dry Curing (food preservation), curing, with or without smoking (cooking), smoking."Bacon: Bacon and Ham Curing" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. Lo ...
were named Ylöjärvi's traditional parish dishes.
[Jaakko Kolmonen: ''Kotomaamme ruoka-aitta: Suomen, Karjalan ja Petsamon pitäjäruoat'', p. 80. Helsinki: Patakolmonen Ky., 1988. (in Finnish)]
''Tree Mountain''
The town is the location of ''Tree Mountain'',
Land Art by
Agnes Denes
Agnes Denes (Dénes Ágnes; born 1931 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-born American conceptual artist based in New York. She is known for works in a wide range of media—from poetry and philosophical writings to extremely detailed drawings, sculptu ...
. This work was conceived in 1983, and construction was announced by the Finnish government at the 1992
Earth Summit
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Earth Su ...
. Construction was complete in 1996, and the site is legally protected for the next 400 years.
Tree Mountain was dedicated in June 1996 by the President of Finland.
Notable people
*
Jenni Banerjee
Jenni Pauliina Banerjee (born 17 January 1981 in Ylöjärvi, Finland) is a Finnish actress with Indian ancestry. She has appeared in movies such as '' Pahat pojat'' (2003), ''Joensuun Elli'' (2004) and ''Lieksa!'' (2007). Her maternal grandfather ...
(born 1981), actress
*
Esa Keskinen
Esa Juhani Keskinen (born 3 February 1965 in Ylöjärvi, Finland) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey forward.
Playing career
Keskinen was drafted by the Calgary Flames as their fifth-round pick, 101st overall, in the 1985 NHL E ...
(born 1965), ice hockey player
*
Kirsi Kunnas
Kirsi Marjatta Kunnas (14 December 1924 – 8 November 2021) was a Finnish poet, children's literature author and translator into Finnish. Her oeuvre consists of poems, fairy tale books, drama, translations (e.g. Lewis Carroll, Federico Garcí ...
(1924–2021), writer, poet and translator
*
Rosa Lindstedt (born 1988), ice hockey player
*
Jaakko Löytty
Jaakko Löytty (born 1955, Finland) is one of the most significant Finnish gospel musicians.
Löytty spent much of his youth, 12 years, in Namibia, where his parents, Seppo Löytty and Kirsti Löytty worked as missionaries with the Finnis ...
(born 1955), gospel musician
*
Saara Niemi
Saara Elisa Niemi, (born 1 January 1986) is a Finnish retired ice hockey player and current general manager and head coach of HIFK Naiset of the Naisten Liiga (NSML). At the 2006 Torino Olympics, Tuominen competed for . scoring one goal and fo ...
(born 1986), ice hockey player and current head coach of
HIFK Naiset
HIFK Naiset, also known by the nickname Stadin Gimmat ('Girls of ,' a nickname for Helsinki), are an ice hockey team in the Naisten Liiga. They play in the Pirkkola district of Helsinki, at the Pirkkola Ice Hall (). As the representative wome ...
*
Jaakko Syrjä
Jaakko Syrjä (7 March 1926 – 22 May 2022) was a Finnish writer. He served as the president of the Union of Finnish Writers from 1975 to 1980.
Biography
Syrjä was born in Pälkäne, the son of Martta née Niemiö and Juho Nestori Syrjä, w ...
(1926–2022), writer
*
Ari Vallin (born 1978), ice hockey player
*
Maria Ylipää
Maria Mikaela Markuntytär Ylipää (born 8 August 1981) is a Finnish singer and actress, who has starred in the musical '' Kristina från Duvemåla'' (Helsinki 2012, Göteborg 2014, Stockholm 2015) and acted in the films ''Keisarikunta'' (2004) a ...
(born 1981), singer and actress
*
Esa Keskinen
Esa Juhani Keskinen (born 3 February 1965 in Ylöjärvi, Finland) is a retired Finnish professional ice hockey forward.
Playing career
Keskinen was drafted by the Calgary Flames as their fifth-round pick, 101st overall, in the 1985 NHL E ...
(born 1965), ice hockey player
*
Aron
Aron may refer to:
Characters
*Aron (comics), from the Marvel Universe comic ''Aron! HyperSpace Boy!''
*Aron (Pokémon), in the ''Pokémon'' franchise
* Aron Trask, from John Steinbeck's novel ''East of Eden''
*Áron or Aaron, the brother of Mos ...
(born 1968), singer, songwriter, and musician
The rock band
Eppu Normaali
Eppu Normaali is one of the most popular rock bands in Finland. The band formed in 1976 in Ylöjärvi, a small town near Tampere. The band is the best-selling music artist in Finland, with certified sales of nearly two million records, and it ...
originates in Ylöjärvi.
International relations
Twin towns — Sister cities
Ylöjärvi is
twinned with:
Gallery
See also
* ''
Tankki täyteen
''Tankki täyteen'' (literal translation "Filling the Tank") is a Finnish sitcom television series produced by Yle. The series was written by Neil Hardwick and Jussi Tuominen and was directed by Esko Leimu together with Neil Hardwick. It was o ...
''
References
External links
– Official website
Ylöjärvi,
Cities and towns in Finland
Populated places established in 1869
1869 establishments in the Russian Empire
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