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ASIKKALA MUNICIPALITY
Asikkala, location in Finland
Asikkala is located in Southern Finland and is a part of the
Päijänne Tavastia region
Asikkala and Vääksy
• Asikkala Was established in
1848.
• The population is
approximately 8500.
• The area of Asikkala is
– 756 km2, of which the
watersurface 192 km2.
– The shore-line is 581 km.
• Vääksy is the vivid center of
Asikkala.
• Vääksy is known of the canal
which devides the village in two
sides.
• Vääksy canal is one of the
busiest inland leisure waterways
in Europe.
• There is also another, much
larger canal in the village of
Kalkkinen.
Municipal coat of Asikkala
In the municipal coat of arms of
Asikkala the crosswise section
division represents the location of
the municipality on two sides of
two lakes (Päijänne and
Vesijärvi).
The flowers in the section are the
flower of potato and the flower of
flax. They represent the
significance of the agricultural
history in the region.
Youth Council in Asikkala
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For the period 2013-2014 there
has been elected 8 members to
Asikkala Youth Council and also
two members in reserve.
Their task is to stand for the
benefits of youngsters and
process activities and
happenings with other
operators.
Each of them also take place in
different municipal boards.
Those are the first steps to
municipal life and principals.
They also represent good
manners and want to prevent
teasing and discrimination
between students.
Known from the lures of Rapala industries
The establisher of Rapala industries Lauri Rapala
was born in 1905. Poor family earned their living with
forestry work and fishing.
To get a little bit more savings he started to make wobblers.
He made his first famous lure in 1936.
At the end of 1940s Rapala family started the serial
production at home.
In United States the Rapala lures became really popular
when there happened to be a Rapala article in the same Life
magazine where was the tragic life story of Marilyn Monroe
in 1962. It literally exploded the markets in United States.
Rapala has sold 350 hundred million lures all around the
world.
In Asikkala Rapala has been most inportant private employer
from the sixties and though it nowadays is an international
company, it still has a great value to Asikkala.
Asikkala is the southern gate to the lake Päijänne
Houses or residences
4033
Summer houses and cottages 3985
Asikkala
Top 10 Attractions
1. Vääksy Canal/the busiest leisure canal in
Europe between Vesijärvi and Päijänne-lake
2. Pulkkilanharju ridge, beautiful esker island
3. Asikkala Church, made of a milloin bricks for 2 thousand
persons.
4. Päijänne House, the museum of recreational fishing
5. Päijänne National Park
6. Ice age route in Asikkala
7. Watermill and Power Plant museum and Vääksy river
8. Tiny boutiques in Old Vääksy
9. Vääksy village mill
10. Urajärvi country seat
Päijänne tunnel
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The watertube is 360m long and takes the
water to the tunnel. The tube is made of
Finnish pine.
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Conducts raw water from Asikkala open lake to
the capital area of Finland.
The tunnel is 120 km long, 4,8m high and 3,8m
wide.
The starting point of the tunnel is 36 m higher
than the end of the tunnel, so the water flows
in the tunnel by gravity.
The building of the tunnel started in 1973 and
the tunnel was completed in 1982.
The tunnel is in the bedrock and it´s average
depth is from 50 to 70 meters trom the ground
level.
The tunnel brings clean water to more than a
million people.
The water flows in average ten days in the
tunnel.
Partly because the tunnel, the water of
Päijänne is clean and drinkable.
Asikkala municipality organisation hierarchy
Council
Board
Incumbents
Asikkalan kunnan organisaatio
Pulkkilanharju ridge
Wellcome to Asikkala!