Hakametsä is a smaller
district
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of
Tampere
Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...
,
Finland
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, located about four kilometers from
its city center.
The neighboring parts of Hakametsä are
Huikas,
Ristinarkku
Ristinarkku () is a district in Tampere, Finland. The district also includes the Janka's residential area. There are a school and several retail stores in the area. The area is close to the city center and has apartment buildings as well as townh ...
,
Messukylä
Messukylä (, also ) is a former municipality of Finland which was annexed by the city of Tampere in 1947. The medieval stone church (built c. 1540) in Messukylä is the oldest building in Tampere. During the Civil War (1918), Messukylä was the ...
,
Vuohenoja,
Kalevanrinne
Kalevanrinne is a district of Tampere, Finland. It is located in the Sampo area between the districts of Kaleva and Järvensivu, bordering Liisankallio and Kalevanharju in the west, Hakametsä and Vuohenoja in the east. The city plan of Ka ...
,
Kaleva Kaleva or Kalevi may refer to:
* CWT Kaleva Travel, a travel management company based in Finland
* Kalevi (mythology), the great king of Kainuu in Finnish, Karelian and Estonian mythology
* ''Kaleva'' (wasp), a wasp genus in the subfamily Pteromal ...
,
Kissanmaa
Kissanmaa is a district in the eastern part of Tampere, Finland, along the Teiskontie street. It belongs to the subdivision of Sampo (district), Sampo, and it is located 3 kilometers from the Keskusta, Tampere, city center. Kissanmaa is surrounded ...
and
Uusikylä.
Hakametsä was once the pasture of the Messukylä's
parsonage
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, and it was settled in the late 19th century. The first inhabitants were "
gardener
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Description
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Juho Fritzkopf,
carpenter
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August Heino, mixed worker Nestor Rajala,
butcher
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Kalle Lindevall, gardener Aksel Gauffin,
baker
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History
Ancient histo ...
Kustaa Eklund and baker Lahtinen". The first
town plan
Urban planning (also called city planning in some contexts) is the process of developing and designing land use and the built environment, including air, water, and the infrastructure passing into and out of urban areas, such as transportatio ...
s of Hakametsä and Ristinarkku were confirmed in the 1950s. Finland's first
ice rink
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,
Tampere Ice Stadium
Tampere Ice Stadium (, often called ''Hakametsä'') is an indoor sports arena in Tampere, Finland. It is primarily used for ice hockey, and it was the former home arena of Ilves and Tappara of the Finnish Liiga until November 2021, when both t ...
(also known as ''Hakametsä Arena''), was completed in Hakametsä for the
1965 Ice Hockey World Championships
The 1965 Ice Hockey World Championships took place in Hakametsä, Tampere, Finland, 3–15 March. Eight teams took part, each playing each other once. The Soviets became world champions for the fifth time, winning all of their games. This also ...
.
Further reading
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References
Districts of Tampere
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