Ulvila

Ulvila , in Swedish Ulvsby , is a city south-west of the Finland, in the province of Western Finland and the area of the Satakunta.

Geography

The commune is crossed by broad the river Kokemäenjoki, which means river of Kokemäki in Finnois.

The part bordering the river belongs to the agglomeration of Pori and densément is densément populated. The remainder of the commune is definitely more wild.

The common neighbors are Pori in the west, Noormarkku in north, Lavia in the east, Kokemäki and Harjavalta in south-east and finally Nakkila in the south.

History

Ulvila is one of the very first cities of the country, one of the 6 to have been founded with the Moyen-âge (in fact the third chronologically after Turku and Porvoo). The city would have been founded downstream from the commercial town of Teljä, present in many accounts and legends of before the Swedish colonization but ever found by the archeologists.

Teljä was certainly abandoned because of the slip towards the west of the coast due to the Isostasie the mouth of Kokemäenjoki moved.

Ulvila is officially founded with the mouth of the river, on the level of an already existing village, by the king Albert of Sweden in 1365.

City more in north of the kingdom of Sweden, it receives the monopoly of the trade on the Gulf of Bothnia and quickly becomes immensely rich. But its apogee of the 15th century will be followed dun fast decline. In 1550, Gustave Ier Vasa founds Helsinki in 1550 and orders to the inhabitant of Ulvila to settle there. When the order is cancelled in 1557, the inhabitants return to find a port completely ensablé by the effects of isostasy.

The following year, the establisheds among of Ulvila are cancelled and transferred to a new city 7 km downstream: Pori. The city falls into the lapse of memory for one long period. The ruins of the dead city spend time to be erased, disappearing under the cultures only during the 18th century. The ruins were excavated and the ground largely analyzed during the Années 1970 what made it possible the archeologists to have a single lighting on a medieval city blocked brutally in its evolution.

Ulvila starts again to develop at the 19th century, collecting some crumbs of the industrialization of Pori. In particular 1870 sees the opening of the very important tannery of Cuir of Friitala, around which the new city is built. This factory always exists, but counts nothing any more but one score of paid against 1.500 at the golden age.

These industries involve the emergence of a working class very stirring up. The inhabitants massively adopt the red guards at the time of the Civil war of 1918. The overcome reds, the commune will lose 250 inhabitants in the combat, the prison camps and the settlings of score.

The city accommodates 1.000 evacuees of the village carélien of Hiitola yielded to the the USSR in 1944. Since the end of the War of continuation, she knew a sustained high growth because of her proximity with Pori and her mine of Cuivre.

Ulvila found its establisheds among in 2000 and amalgamated in 2005 with the farming community of Kullaa.

Twinnings

External bond

Town of Ulvila

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