Muhos

Muhos
Municipality
Muhoksen kunta

Muhos Church, built in 1634, is the oldest wooden church in Finland still in year-round use.

Coat of arms

Location of Muhos in Finland
Coordinates: 64°48′N 026°00′E / 64.800°N 26.000°E / 64.800; 26.000Coordinates: 64°48′N 026°00′E / 64.800°N 26.000°E / 64.800; 26.000
Country Finland
Region Northern Ostrobothnia
Sub-region Oulu sub-region
Charter 1865
Government
 • Municipal manager Jukka Syvävirta
Area (2011-01-01)[1]
 • Total 797.39 km2 (307.87 sq mi)
 • Land 783.61 km2 (302.55 sq mi)
 • Water 13.78 km2 (5.32 sq mi)
Area rank 147th largest in Finland
Population (2015-06-30)[2]
 • Total 9,023
 • Rank 120th largest in Finland
 • Density 11.51/km2 (29.8/sq mi)
Population by native language[3]
 • Finnish 99.2% (official)
 • Swedish 0.1%
 • Others 0.7%
Population by age[4]
 • 0 to 14 24.7%
 • 15 to 64 61.1%
 • 65 or older 14.2%
Time zone EET (UTC+2)
 • Summer (DST) EEST (UTC+3)
Municipal tax rate[5] 20%
Website www.muhos.fi

Muhos is a municipality of Finland.

It is located in the province of Oulu half an hour's drive (35 km) on route 22 from the city of Oulu, the capital of Northern Finland, and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality has a population of 9,023 (30 June 2015)[2] and covers an area of 797.39 square kilometres (307.87 sq mi) of which 13.78 km2 (5.32 sq mi) is water. The population density is 11.51 inhabitants per square kilometre (29.8/sq mi). The river Oulujoki flows through the town and its countryside with the wide open plains of Pohjanmaa on the south side of the river and the forested hills of Kainuu on the northern side. Located in Muhos is the Pyhäkoski hydro-electric power plant which was commissioned in 1949 and has the highest fall in Finland (32.4 m). The power station has been designed by renowned Finnish architect Aarne Ervi.

Schools

Culture

The town has a culture centre which consists of the town library and space for various cultural activities which can be rented for a nominal fee. The culture centre also has a movie theater.

Languages

The municipality is unilingually Finnish.

Transport

Road

The Finnish national road 22 between Oulu and Kajaani passes through the municipal center. There are several daily local bus connections to Oulu, and several long-distance connections to Kajaani and points east.

Rail

Oulu–Kontiomäki railway line runs through the municipal center. There are eight daily passenger trains, four each way, serving the community at Muhos railway station. The trains are operated by the national railway operator, VR Group.

Air

The closest commercial airport is Oulu Airport in Oulunsalo, 50 kilometres (30 mi) west.

Persons and details

Miss Universe

Armi Kuusela, winner of Miss Finland in 1952 and Miss Universe 1952 beauty contest was born, raised and lived in Muhos. Muhos county has a village named Kylmälänkylä, which is thought to be the longest village in Finland.

Parliamentarians

The members of the parliament elected from Muhos have been Pirkko Mattila (True Finns 2011-), Ester Häikiö[6] (Finnish People's Democratic League 1951-1954) and Aaro Kauppi[7] (Agrarian League 1951–1954, 1956–1958 and 1963–1966, renamed as Centre Party 1965-1966) and Yrjö Kesti[8] (Small Farmers' Party of Finland 1930–1936).[9] Juhana Petter Valkola was a peasant deputy during the diet session 1877–1878.

During the great depression of the 1930s Muhos was one of the municipalities where the deficiency movements (pulaliikkeet, signular pulaliike) started to organise as critique to the cabibet parties. After the municipal elections of the year 1933, the biggest political group in the municipal council of Muhos was Muhoksen pulatoimikunta which was an elemental part of the movement in the southern regions of Oulu. In 1933 they had seven members of the council. In the northern Finland as the deficit movement was based on the small peasants' and was a critique for the Agrarian League and Kyösti Kallio, but in some cases if was a critique to the Social Democratic Party of Finland as well. Some parts of the deficiency movement was financed moderately by the Communist Party of Finland as its activities were forbidden by law in (1930–1944) to the end of the continuation war. In the 1930s the Communistic movement of Finland tried to go on its work in the Social Democratic organisations, which were not banned in Finland and less also in the deficiency movement.

The deficiency movements demanded the state take more effective measures to help the small peasants to avoid the shameful compulsory auctions of the debt-driven small farms. Many of the farmsteads were bought in the auctions by the state and they were returned in later to their previous owners.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Area by municipality as of 1 January 2011" (PDF) (in Finnish and Swedish). Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
  2. 1 2 "VÄESTÖTIETOJÄRJESTELMÄ REKISTERITILANNE 30.06.2015" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Register Center of Finland. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "Population according to language and the number of foreigners and land area km2 by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
  4. ↑ "Population according to age and gender by area as of 31 December 2008". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  5. ↑ "List of municipal and parish tax rates in 2011". Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
  6. ↑ Eduskunta.fi
  7. ↑ Small Peasants' Party of Finland
  8. ↑ Kirjastovirma.net
  9. ↑ Eduskunta.fi
  10. ↑ JYX.jyu.fi

External links

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