Lempäälä

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Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality Lempäälä (Swedish: Lempäälä, also Lembois, Lempälä) is a municipality in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland with Template:Infobox Finnish Municipality/population count inhabitants (Error: Invalid time.).[1] Lempäälä is located south of the city of Tampere. The municipality covers an area of [convert: invalid number] of which [convert: invalid number] is water.[2] The population density is [convert: invalid number].

The municipality center of Lempäälä is situated on an isthmus between the lakes Vanajavesi and Pyhäjärvi which are connected by the Kuokkalankoski rapids and the canal of Lempäälä that was built during the 1870s and is still in use.

The first written account of the parish of Lempäälä is from 1430. The oldest building of the town is a medieval church named after Saint Birgitta and was built in 1504.[3] The only remaining article from medieval times in the church is a wooden crucifix carved out of birch.

Finnish novelist Yrjö Kokko lived in Lempäälä, and is buried in the graveyard.

Ideapark, the second largest shopping mall in Nordic countries, is located in Lempäälä along the Helsinki–Tampere motorway.

Kuokkala

Kuokkala is a neighbourhood to the north of Lempäälä town which houses a ’museoraitti’ (museum trail). Several buildings now house collections of historical items, including a shop museum (also a shop and information office), hairdressers & barbers, cobblers, WW2 memorabilia, household equipment, blacksmiths, carpenters, a 19th-century Finish dwelling, and a special exhibit relating to the ex-Finnish region of Sakkola.[4]

International relations

See also: List of twin towns and sister cities in Finland

Twin towns — Sister cities

Lempäälä is twinned with:

References

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  3. ^ Pyhä Birgitta määräsi kirkon paikan – Lempäälän kunta Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Leaflet about Kuokkalan museoraitti published by museum.

External links

Media related to Lempäälä at Wikimedia Commons

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