Tapanila ( sv, Mosabacka) is a

neighbourhood A neighbourhood (British English, Irish English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural a ...

in Malmi district,

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. Tapanila has approximately 5474 inhabitants (2005).http://www.hel2.fi/tietokeskus/helsinki_alueittain_2005/503Malmi.pdf Information about Malmi and its subareas Tapanila has its own railway station. It is known that there were few farm houses in Tapanila already in the 16th century. Back then Tapanila was one of the biggest villages in Helsinki area. In 1862, railroad between

Hämeenlinna Hämeenlinna (; sv, Tavastehus; krl, Hämienlinna; la, Tavastum or ''Croneburgum'') is a city and municipality of about inhabitants in the heart of the historical province of Tavastia and the modern province of Kanta-Häme in the south of ...

and Tapanila was built. Tapanila.fi information in English Tapanila was largely rebuilt from 1910–1935 based on

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in England, the first in the

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. The area was

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to Helsinki in 1946. There is also Franzén croft in Tapanila, where, according to auricular tradition, the Finnish national author

Aleksis Kivi Aleksis Kivi (; born Alexis Stenvall; 10 October 1834 – 31 December 1872) was a Finnish author who wrote the first significant novel in the Finnish language, ''Seitsemän veljestä'' ("Seven Brothers") in 1870. He is also known for his 1864 ...

lived in 1870.IL: Helsinki aikoo myydä Aleksis Kiven entisen kodin – tältä se näyttää
(in Finnish)

References

Neighbourhoods of Helsinki {{SouthernFinland-geo-stub