Lempäälä

Lempäälä (Finnish: [ˈlempæːlæ] is a municipality in the Pirkanmaa region of Finland with 24,720 inhabitants (19 September 2023).[2] Lempäälä is located south of the city of Tampere. The municipality covers an area of 307.06 square kilometres (118.56 sq mi) of which 37.51 km2 (14.48 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 91.71 inhabitants per square kilometre (237.5/sq mi).

For the municipality in the Karelian Isthmus known in Finnish as "Lempaala", see Lembolovo.
Lempäälä
Municipality
Lempäälän kunta
Lempäälä kommun
Aerial view of Lempäälä
Aerial view of Lempäälä
Coat of arms of Lempäälä
Coat of arms
Location of Lempäälä in Finland
Location of Lempäälä in Finland
Coordinates: 61°19′N 023°45′E
Country Finland
RegionPirkanmaa
Sub-regionTampere sub-region
Charter1866
Government
 • Municipality managerHeidi Rämö
Area
 (2018-01-01)[1]
 • Total307.06 km2 (118.56 sq mi)
 • Land269.56 km2 (104.08 sq mi)
 • Water37.51 km2 (14.48 sq mi)
 • Rank241st largest in Finland
Population
 (2023-09-19)[2]
 • Total24,720
 • Rank42nd largest in Finland
 • Density91.71/km2 (237.5/sq mi)
Population by native language
[3]
 • Finnish96.8% (official)
 • Swedish0.3%
 • Others2.9%
Population by age
[4]
 • 0 to 1422.3%
 • 15 to 6460.8%
 • 65 or older16.9%
Time zoneUTC+02:00 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+03:00 (EEST)
Websitewww.lempaala.fi

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.[5] 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 (E12).

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 Finnish dwelling, and a special exhibit relating to the ex-Finnish region of Sakkola.[6]

Politics

In the 2023 parliamentary elections, Lempäälä voted as such:[7]

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

Twin towns — Sister cities

Lempäälä is twinned with:

Villages

See also

References
  1. "Area of Finnish Municipalities 1.1.2018" (PDF). National Land Survey of Finland. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. "Finland's preliminary population figure was 5,587,841 at the end of August 2023". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 30 September 2023.
  3. "Demographic Structure by area as of 31 December 2022". Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 6 September 2023.
  4. "Population according to age (1-year) and sex by area and the regional division of each statistical reference year, 2003–2020". StatFin. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. Pyhä Birgitta määräsi kirkon paikan – Lempäälän kunta Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Leaflet about Kuokkalan museoraitti published by museum.
  7. "Lempäälä | Tulospalvelu | Eduskuntavaalit 2023 | yle.fi". vaalit.yle.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved 2023-10-20.

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