Vesanka

Vesanka is a village and a district of Jyväskylä, Finland. Before 2009, it was one of the villages of Jyväskylän maalaiskunta. It is located in the far western part of Jyväskylä near its borders with Petäjävesi, Muurame and, until 2009, Korpilahti.[2]

Vesanka
District of Jyväskylä
Vesanka is located in Central Finland
Vesanka
Vesanka
Location in Central Finland
Coordinates: 62.2679576°N 25.5669375°E / 62.2679576; 25.5669375
Country Finland
RegionCentral Finland
Sub-regionJyväskylä sub-region
CityJyväskylä
WardKuohu-Vesanka
Population
 (2021-12-31)
 • Total1,723[1]
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Vesanka forms the Kuohu-Vesanka ward together with Kuohu, Ruoke and Varsalanperä.[2] Vesanka was classified as a separate urban area (taajama) until 2019.[3][4]

Geography

The district of Vesanka borders Varsalanperä in the north, Rippalanmäki, Ruoke and Valkeamäki in the east, Hanhiperä in the southeast, Isolahti (Muurame) in the south and Kuohu in the west. The village itself is mainly located on the shores of the lake Vesankajärvi. [2]

Vesanka was originally divided into two sides: Iso-Vesanka and Vähä-Vesanka. Iso-Vesanka contained the school, while Vähä-Vesanka contained a train station.[5]

The register village of Vesanka also included Kuohu, Varsalanperä, Vertaala and western Saarenmaa, but not Perälä, which was a part of Keljo instead.[2][6]

History

The village is named after the lake Vesankajärvi. The first settler in the area was Antti Soikkanen, who was recorded in the area in 1559.[5] As a village, Vesanka is first mentioned in 1561 as vesangaerffui (Vesankajärvi).[7] It was a part of either the parish of Jämsä or Rautalampi until Laukaa was separated from Rautalampi, after which the villages of the Jyväskylä area were transferred to it. The transfer was made permanent in 1646.[8]

Jyväskylä became an independent parish in the 1850s. In 1868, Jyväskylän maalaiskunta was established, with Vesanka becoming one of its villages.[8]

A metal workshop was established by the Kuohunkoski rapids in 1878 in the area that would later be known as Kuohu. However, the most important industrial enterprise was a sawmill established in the 1920s, purchased by the company Toras Oy from Suojärvi after Suojärvi was ceded to the Soviet Union in the 1940s.[9]

There were plans to expand Vesanka in the 1970s into an area comparable to Tikkakoski in the northern part of Jyväskylän mlk. By then, four small suburban areas had developed, and plans to connect these areas were made, especially towards the road leading to Nyrölä. A zoning plan for Vesanka and Ruoke was made in the mid-1990s and was expanded to Kuohu by 2008.[10]

Vesanka became a part of the town of Jyväskylä after Jyväskylän maalaiskunta was consolidated with it in 2009.

Services

Education

Vesanka has a united "daycare school", with the school educating grades 1-6 (ala-aste). Grades 7-9 (yläaste) attend the Viitaniemi School closer to central Jyväskylä.[11]

Other

Vesala in the southern part of the village contains a rentable campground owned by the church of Jyväskylä.[12]

  • Vesanka school in 2013.
    Vesanka school in 2013.
  • Community hall "Rientola".
    Community hall "Rientola".

References
  1. "Tilastokeskus - Jyväskylän väestö pienalueittain". app.powerbi.com (in Finnish). Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  2. "Jyväskylän karttapalvelu". kartta.jkl.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  3. "Väestö 31.12. muuttujina Vuosi, Kunta ja taajama, Sukupuoli, Ikä ja Tiedot. PxWeb". pxnet2.stat.fi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on November 23, 2019. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  4. "Väestö 31.12. muuttujina Vuosi, Taajama ja Tiedot. PxWeb". pxnet2.stat.fi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on August 18, 2022. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  5. "Vesangassa harrastetaan pilatesta ja historiaa - Jyväskylän kaupungin tiedotuslehti". jkl.fi (in Finnish). Archived from the original on December 1, 2012. Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  6. Jyväskylän maalaiskunnan kirja, p. 39.
  7. "SuomalainenPaikannimikirja_e-kirja_kuvallinen.pdf" (PDF). kaino.kotus.fi (in Finnish). p. 150. Retrieved March 3, 2023.
  8. Jyväskylän maalaiskunnan kirja, p. 46.
  9. Jyväskylän maalaiskunnan historia 1945-2009, page 39.
  10. Jyväskylän maalaiskunnan historia, pp. 40 and 41.
  11. "Vesangan päiväkotikoulu". peda.net (in Finnish). Retrieved March 4, 2023.
  12. "Vesala - Jyväskylän seurakunta". jyvaskylanseurakunta.fi (in Finnish). Retrieved March 4, 2023.
Literature
  • Lappalainen, Jussi T. (1977). Jyväskylän maalaiskunnan kirja (in Finnish). Jyväskylä: Jyväskylän maalaiskunta ja maaseurakunta. ISBN 951-99104-3-3.
  • Wilmi, Jorma (2011). Jyväskylän maalaiskunnan historia 1945-2008 (in Finnish). Saarijärvi: Jyväskylän kaupunki. ISBN 978-952-5847-11-6.

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