Lemi
Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Lemi is a municipality of Finland.
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia region. The municipality has a population of Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count (Error: Invalid time.)[1] and covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number].
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The Finnish thrash metal band Stam1na is from Lemi.
Geography
The municipal center of Lemi is Juvola. The other villages are Ahtiala, Hakulila, Heikkilä, Huttula, Hyvärilä, Iitiä, Juuresaho (ent. Remunen), Juvola, Kaamanniemi, Kuukanniemi, Kapiala, Keskisenpää, Korpela, Kurkela, Kärmeniemi, Laakkola, Lavola, Merenlahti, Metsola, Mikkola, Mikonharju, Nisola, Nuppola, Olkkonen, Parkkola, Pöllölä, Ruohiala, Ruomi, Sairala, Sorvarila, Suomalainen, Suoniala, Suontakainen, Sutela, Taipale, Tevaniemi, Torvenniemi, Tuomelanpelto, kuuluu myös Iitiään, Uiminniemi, Urola, Vainikkala, Välikangas and Värtölä.
The schools are in Juvola and Kuukanniemi. There are about 750 inhabitants in Kuukanniemi and the villages it affects.
Attractive natural and historical places
| Name | Place | Description | WGS 84 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The evangelic-Lutheran church of Lemi | |||
| Juvolan mörssäripatteri – The mortar battery of Juvola | Juvola | The partly restored position of four positions of the 280 mm mortar of the year 1877. The four mortars are destroyed after the Continuation War.[3] The battery has been a part of the Salpa Line | |
| Kärmeniemen patteri – The battery of Kärmeniemi | Juvola | The position of two Canet 152/45-C guns. The guns are displaced [4] The battery has been a part of the Salpa Line |
History
Inpedendence
Lemi has been founded in 1688 as an independent Evangelic-Lutheran parish. Due to the secularisation of the local governments according to the decree of 1865, the secular local government was separated from the clerical in 1867 as the municipality of Lemi.
War time
Some fighting took place in the cemetery of Lemi during the civil war in 1918. After the winter war as the military hardware had to be displaced from the territories to be given to the Soviet Union on the bases of the Moscow Armistice, naval artillery was brought to Lemi to create part of the Salpa Line. From the Käkisalmi region the Vahtiniemi battery was transferred to Kärmeniemi consisting two Canet 152/45-C naval guns. Later, on 11 July 1941, they were taken to Antamoinen to be tested on 22 July. Four days later they were transported by train from Lappeenranta again near Käkisalmi to Vahtiniemi to become operational 9 September 1941. After the Continuation War the 32nd heavy battery brought only one of the two Canet 152/45-C's it had as the other was to repaired. By the end of November, 1944 the 32nd heavy battery was dissolved and the guns were sent to Parola.[5]
After the war there has not been naval guns in Lemi, but the remaining positions can be seen both in Kärmeniemi and Juvola.
Notable individuals
- Elias Muukka, painter
- Mirja Hietamies, Olympic champion cross-country skier
- Stam1na, trashmetal band
References
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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- ^ http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku27.htm
- ^ http://www.lemi.fi/kunta/polku/polku27.htm
External links
Media related to Lemi at Wikimedia Commons
- Municipality of Lemi – Official website
- goSaimaa.com – travel information
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