Muurame
Muurame is a municipality of Finland, located Template:Convert south-west of Jyväskylä, the regional capital of Central Finland. Muurame itself is located between two lakes, Lake Päijänne and Lake Muuratjärvi. These two lakes are connected to each other via River Muurame. Altogether there are 37 lakes in Muurame. The biggest lakes beside Päijänne are Muuratjärvi and Lake Kuusjärvi.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> River Muurame streams through the population center of Muurame, which was founded in 1921.
Today Muurame shares a land border only with Jyväskylä. Before 2009, its neighboring municipalities were, in addition to Jyväskylä, the Rural Municipality of Jyväskylä and Korpilahti, and before 1993 also Säynätsalo. Säynätsalo was consolidated with the city of Jyväskylä in 1993, and the Rural Municipality of Jyväskylä and Korpilahti in 2009. Muurame still shares a water boundary not only with Jyväskylä but also with Toivakka.
The Muurame church is of Alvar Aalto's design, being his first church design to be completed in 1929.<ref name="yle">Template:Cite news</ref> It was comprehensively restored in 2016 to its original design.<ref name="yle" />
Name
Muurame is a dialectal word referring to the cloudberry, which also can be seen in the municipal coat of arms. Similar toponyms nearby include Muuratsalo, Muuratjärvi, Muuramenlampi and Muuratharju.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
Geography
Statistical areas
Muurame is divided into 17 statistical areas: Hautalanmäki, Isolahti, Jaakkola, Keskusta, Kinkomaa, Kotiranta-Paavalinvuori, Muuramenharju, Muuratsalo, Niittyaho, Pitkälä-Riihiniemi, Rajala-Sulunsalmi, Rannankylä, Saarenkylä, Teollisuuskylä, Velkapohja, Verkkoniemi and Vihtalahti-Härköpohja.<ref>Template:Cite map</ref>
History
Muurame was originally a part of Jämsä. There were also external hunting grounds of Pälkäne in the area.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In 1539, there were four farms in Muurame: two of the estates paid taxes to Jämsä, while the other two were taxed from Pälkäne.<ref name="SJH">Template:Cite book</ref>
Korpilahti, including Muurame, was separated from Jämsä in 1861.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Muurame was in turn separated from Korpilahti in 1921.<ref name="paikannimikirja">Template:Cite web</ref> Säynätsalo was separated from Muurame ecclesiastically in 1922<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and administratively in 1924.<ref>Suomalainen paikannimikirja, page 437.</ref>
Notable people
Athletes
- Emilia Nyström, Finnish beach volleyball
- Erika Nyström, Finnish beach volleyball
- Jussi Pesonen, ice hockey player
- Harri Pesonen, ice hockey player
- Mikko Ronkainen, Freestyle skier
Twinnings
- Template:Flagicon Alatskivi Parish, Estonia<ref name=alatskivi>Template:Cite web</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Vinje, Norway<ref name=muurame>Template:Cite web</ref>
See also
References
External links
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- Municipality of Muurame – Official website Template:In lang
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