Kvevlax ( fi, Koivulahti) is a church village in the municipality of

Korsholm Korsholm (; fi, Mustasaari) is a municipality of Finland. The town of Vaasa was founded in Korsholm parish in 1606 and today the municipality completely surrounds the city. It is a coastal, mostly rural municipality, consisting of a rural landscap ...

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. It is located approximately north of the city of

Vaasa Vaasa (; sv, Vasa, , Sweden ), in the years 1855–1917 as Nikolainkaupunki ( sv, Nikolajstad; literally meaning "city of Nicholas),

. Kvevlax became an independent

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or ...

in 1857. Until 1 January 1973 it was an independent

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. Kvevlax has a lower grade

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school, a kindergarten, a running track and an ice rink. There are two local grocery shops, a library and a bank.

Flight 311 air crash

On 3 January 1961, a DC-3, the

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Flight 311, crashed in Kvevlax, with the loss of all 25 on board. The DC-3 crash was blamed on alcohol-intoxicated and sleep-deprived pilots. The accident remains the worst in Finnish aviation history.

Landmarks

* The Kvevlax Church, built in 1692. The church has a

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from 1696, while the

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is much newer, having been purchased in 1975. * The Kvevlax UF house was opened in 1949, although the youth organization was formed back in 1895. The previous UF house burned down in the winter of 1940. * The memorial to the air crash

External links

Aviation Safety Net
Former municipalities of Finland Korsholm {{Finland-geo-stub