Tuusula
Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality
Tuusula (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈtuːsulɑ]; Swedish: Tusby [ˈtʉ̌ːsbyː]) is a municipality of Finland. It belongs to the Helsinki sub-region of the Uusimaa region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and is by far the third largest municipality in Finland after Nurmijärvi and Kirkkonummi that doesn't use the town or city title by itself.
Geography
Tuusula, lying on the shores of Tuusulanjärvi lake, is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the Uusimaa region. It covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number].
Tuusula has three population centres. The administrative centre is Hyrylä (about 19,500 residents), other two are Jokela (5,300 residents) and Kellokoski (4,300 residents). The remaining 4,400 residents are distributed to the rural areas outside of municipal centres.[3] The most significant main road connection between Hyrylä and Helsinki is the Tuusulanväylä motorway.
The neighbouring communes are Vantaa to the south, Nurmijärvi to the west, Hyvinkää to the north, Mäntsälä and Järvenpää to the north east, and Sipoo and Kerava to the east.
Villages
Huikko, Hyrylä, Jokela, Jäniksenlinna, Kellokoski, Lahela, Myllykylä, Nahkela, Paijala, Riihikallio, Ruotsinkylä, Ruskela, Rusutjärvi, Savikulma, Siippoo, Vanhakylä
History
The area in what is now Tuusula was located in the larger municipality of Sipoo. In 1643, it became a separate parish in the municipality, and in 1653, it became a separate municipality. Tuusula's boundaries have not always remained the same: in 1924 the municipality of Kerava split from here; in 1950 the municipality of Korso was split between Tuusula, Kerava, and Sipoo; and in 1951 the municipality of Järvenpää split from here.
During the Crimean War (1853–1856), a Russian garrison was stationed in what is now Hyrylä. The modern parish mostly developed around it.
The area had always been a fairly fertile area, thus encouraging farming. The development of other industries began in 1795, when an ironworks was created in Kellokoski that functioned until the 1980s. The establishment of a railway in Jokela furthered the growth.
Soon after this industrial time another aspect of Tuusulan history was realised. The Tuusulanjärvi lake attracted many artists who wanted to paint the beautiful landscape. Following the footsteps of Aleksis Kivi, the Finnish national poet who spent the last years of his life in a hut on the shores of the lake, Jean Sibelius, Juhani Aho, and Pekka Halonen even established their main residences here. Recently these houses have become tourist sites, especially Sibelius' house Ainola. Also, Tuusula Lake Road on the eastern shore of the lake is an outside museum.
The Jokela rail crash was a rail crash which occurred on 21 April 1996 here.
Jokela High School was the site of the Jokela school shooting, a school shooting which occurred on 7 November 2007, leaving 9 dead (including the 18-year-old perpetrator, Pekka-Eric Auvinen).[4][5]
Notable people
- Teemu Suninen, rally driver
Demographics
Tuusula, in the Helsinki suburbs, has been in a positive balance of population, with it more than doubling in size since 1970.
The municipality is officially Finnish. Swedish was the second official language until 1943. Today only 2% are Swedish-speaking.
Population in:
- 1970 – 17.235
- 1980 – 22.151
- 1987 – 26.234
- 1990 – 27.328
- 1997 – 29.957
- 2000 – 31.957
- 2007 – 34.890
Politics
Parliamentary elections
Results[6] of the 2019 Finnish parliamentary election in Tuusula:
- Finns Party 21%
- National Coalition Party 20.4%
- Social Democratic Party 16.5%
- Centre Party 12.3%
- Green League 11.3%
- Movement Now 5.3%
- Left Alliance 4.8%
- Blue Reform 2.6%
- Christian Democrats 2%
- Other parties 4%
Municipal Council
Party | Percent of the council | Seats |
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National Coalition Party | 26.2% | 14 |
Tuusulan Puolesta (Eng. "For Tuusula") | 25.2% | 14 |
Social Democratic Party of Finland | 25.1% | 13 |
Centre Party | 11.6% | 5 |
Christian Democrats | 3.2% | 2 |
Left Alliance | 3.5% | 1 |
Green League | 3.5% | 1 |
Swedish People's Party | 1.1% | 1 |
Twin towns – Sister cities
Tuusula is twinned with:
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Economy and Infrastructure
Economy
Due its proximity to the Helsinki, Tuusula is, for the most part, a commuter town. Tuusula itself has around 10,000 jobs. 66% of the jobs are in the service sector, 31% in the workforce, and 1.5% are farmers. The unemployment rate amounted to 3% (2007), far below the national average.
Transportation
From the centre of Tuusula, Hyrylä, there are good bus connections to Helsinki, via the Tuusula motorway. There are also two train stations in the main railway line of Finland, Jokela and Nuppulinna. Nuppulinna, however, was discontinued in 2016.
Education
Tuusula's network of schools include:
- 18 primary schools
- 4 secondary schools
- 3 high schools
- 1 hospital school
See also
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Tuusulassa on kolme keskusta ja niitä ympäröivät maaseutualueet Archived 2007-11-07 at the Wayback Machine (in Finnish)
- ^ "Teen gunman dead from critical injuries who opened fire on Finnish classmates". CNN. 2007-11-07. Archived from the original on 2007-11-09. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
- ^ "Fatal shooting at Finnish school". BBC News. 2007-11-07. Retrieved 2007-11-07.
- ^ "Tulospalvelu: Eduskuntavaalit 2019 - Tuusula". Keski-Uuusimaa. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
- ^ 2004 election results
External links
- Municipality of Tuusula – official site