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TEACHER’S TRAINING PATTIJOKI CHURCH COLLEGE AREA Koulutie 7 Rantakatu 7 Designed by Josef Stenbäck Raahe Teachers’ Training and located in Pietarinmäki, College is one of Finland’s Pattijoki, the church dates best-preserved late 19th from 1912. The church walls century teachers’ colleges. are cast concrete, and the The park area features building is roofed with con- several school buildings and crete shingles. The altarpiece residential buildings, de- is a Tyrolean gilded wood signed by Werner Polón and sculpture called The Crucifix- built in 1899–1900, as well ion of Christ. The front of the as the greenhouse. After the church features the stained teachers’ college closed down glass window The Resur- in 1971, the first information rection from 1983, designed RAAHE TOURIST INFORMATION technology school in Finland by artist Matti Lammi. The Brahenkatu 10, 92100 Raahe wooden chandeliers were and later a university of ap- TEL. +358 44 439 3240 plied sciences was opened. designed by Josef Stenbäck. A memorial to the fallen [email protected] | www.visitraahe.fi soldiers of the Finnish War GELLMAN’S OLD (1808–1809) who were buried HOSPITAL in Pietarinmäki stands in front Rantakatu 4 of the church. YOUR DIGITAL GUIDE TO RAAHE Digital guide Glopas gives you information about the A wooden building in the history of Raahe, telling you tales from there every Art Nouveau style, the town PATTIJOKI MUSEUM day of the year. Download for free from your device Old Town of Raahe hospital was built in the BRIDGE application store. Select your route: Travel back in time 1910s with funds donated by Koulutie 1 to Old Town, explore the archipelago or exercise on the Isak Gellman, a merchant, Now reserved for pedestrian nature trails. Put your phone in your pocket and your alderman and sea captain earphones on, and you are ready to start your journey! who moved to Raahe from and bicycle traffic, Pattijoki stone arch bridge (1897) is Glopas will turn on automatically when you approach Sweden. Raahe District Hospi- a site and have allowed your device to access your The Old Town of Raahe is one of Finland’s tal was built around it. located near the church. location information. best-preserved historic wooden towns from HAARALA CEMETERY OLKIJOKI TREATY the 19th century. The area covers the northern Kappelintie 4 MUSEUM part of Raahe’s grid plan area, which is based on Nothing is really what you would expect Haarala Cemetery has a num- Siikajoentie 544 ” the Renaissance town plan by Claes Claesson in ber of monuments that are During the Finnish War, an in Raahe, as there is always 1650. Claesson was a town planner working for valuable in terms of cultural armistice agreement the Con- a new surprise around the corner. Count Per Brahe, the founder of the town. history. The cemetery was vention of Olkijoki was signed opened in 1809 and expanded between Sweden and Russia The mentality in Raahe does not include in 1860 and 1887. The newest on 19th November 1808 at the making a fuss about what you have. Old Town is a harmonious, classicistic wooden part was inaugurated in 1989. Lassila Inn, part of which has house district built according to a regular grid The cemetery also includes been turned into a museum. That is why Raahe always surprises plan. A large part of the town burned down in an urn cemetery and a sep- The Treaty Museum was inau- those who come here. 1810. The fire destroyed three-quarters of the arate non-denominational gurated in 1937. area. The area features the Waiting around the corner may be town, about 60 buildings, including the town Haarala Chapel, designed by the magnificent district of Old Raahe hall and its archives. The majority of the build- Ilmari Wirkkala and complet- KASTELLI STONE AGE STRUCTURE or the gate of a steel mill. ings in the old town date from the rebuilding ed in 1932. period after the fire and represent wooden clas- Linnalantie 74 In the other direction, the visitor may find SALOINEN CHURCH Kastelli Giant’s Church a sicism and the Empire style. The architecture Kirkkoherrantie 17 mysterious relic consisting of the mist-covered sea or a small, of wooden Raahe is characterised by heavily large circular rock walls with St Olaf’s Church was com- high-quality boutique. profiled fascia boards. The facade moldings, gate-like openings. It was pleted in 1932 to replace the ” pilasters and various coffers are also uniquely built by Late Stone Age hunt- wooden church, which had Raahe, a town of many stories er-gatherers in 3000–2000 impressive. been built in the 1620s and BCE. burned down in 1930. The church houses a number of The old town has two market squares of na- items salvaged from the old VIHANTI CHURCH A JOURNEY THROUGH tional significance. Raahe’s first market square, church during the fire, includ- Onnelantie 7 today’s Myhrberg Park, is one of Finland’s three ing Medieval sculptures of The wooden cruciform church remaining 17th century squares, and Pekkatori Saints and two altar cabinets TIME TO OLD TOWN of Sofia Magdalena (1784) in Square can well be considered the country’s from the 15th century. The Vihanti with a belfry (1752). church’s chancel has stained The master builder was Simon most significant 19th century square along with glass windows made by Onni Silvén from Mehtäkylä, Kala- the Senate Square in Helsinki. Oja in 1979. The churchyard joki. The altarpiece, The Cru- has a neoclassical belfry from cifixion of Christ, was painted 1787, sketched by King Gustav The Old Town of Raahe was protected in the by Emanuel Granberg in 1787. .FI III of Sweden. In the summer, town plan in 1984 and 1986. Today, there are the belfry houses a café. about 150 houses and 200 courtyard buildings Share your best moments in the area. #visitraahe @visitraahe q PEKKATORI former tobacco factory, is from STATUES AND MONUMENTS A market square with closed 1830. The house has also been corners, Pekkatori Square, used as a private retirement A Statue of A. Myhrberg founded Raahe and gave the originally named Isotori, is the home. The house is preserved as Born in the Sovelius House, town his name, was erected most important entity included a historical landmark building. August Maksimilian Myhrberg in the middle of Isotori Square in the town plan drawn by (1797–1867) fought in, for exam- in 1888 and named the Pekka Gustaf Odenwall after the great r MYHRBERG PARK ple, the Greek War of Independ- statue. The statue was sculpt- fire of Raahe in 1810. It was to The buildings around the town’s ence, the November Uprising in ed by Walter Runeberg, son become an administrative and first market square, Myhrberg Poland and the First Carlist War of Finland’s national poet J. commercial centre. Plots around Park, provide a good overview in Spain. He died in Sweden and L. Runeberg. The square was the square were assigned to the of wooden town construction in was buried in the St Johannes named Pekkatori. There is a larg- town’s most notable burghers, Raahe from the 18th century to cemetery, next to von Döbeln, er version of the statue in Turku. who were aldermen, merchants the early 20th century. who acquired his fame in the D and shipowners. A new town Finnish War. Sculpted by Evert Defender Statue 4a. Heikku’s House The Defender statue by sculptor hall was to be built on the plot The house was completed on Porila (1886–1941), the statue in the southwest corner of the was unveiled in 1931. A relief of Johannes Haapasalo (1880–1965) the plot of the old town hall in dates from 1908. It depicts the square. The Lang (1a), Fontell 1812, right after the great fire. Myhrberg by Kari Juva on the (1c), Montin (1d), Frieman (1f) wall of the Packhouse Museum Russification of Finland: one A fine example of Gustavian hand protects the head and the and Hedmansson (1g) houses neoclassicism, the house has a was unveiled in 2008. were completed in 1811–1815 and other holds a stone that the man mansard roof, which is un- B is ready to throw at the attacker. represent the wealthy town common in Raahe, and smooth Statue of President construction of the era. The Urho Kekkonen The work of art was bought and closed tongue-and-groove donated to the Town of Raahe by influence of neoclassicism is panelling reminiscent of a stone A bronze statue by sculptor visible in the dimensions of Matti Peltokangas (b. 1952), John Grundström (1877–1953), building. The Heikku’s House has who lived by Härkätori Square in the houses. The style of the a closed courtyard with one of unveiled in 2008. The initiative his childhood. Hansa House (1e) also known the town’s few gates preserved for the statue project came from as “Stone-Sovio”, completed 35 in their original form. The house the local regional association, E Kari Juva Sculpture Park years later, and the Rein House includes the town’s banquet Siika-Pyhäjokialueen liitto, which (1h), built on the plot of the town The sculpture park was estab- rooms. wanted to highlight the signifi- lished in the Town Hall Park in hall more than half a century cance of Urho Kekkonen to the later, in 1870, does not differ 4b. Freitag Courtyard 2008 in honour of sculptor Kari development of the area. Among Juva (1939–2014), who lived in from the general impression The courtyard and buildings other things, Kekkonen support- of the other buildings around owned by merchant and alder- Pyhäjoki and Raahe in his youth. ed the locating of the Rautaruuk- The park features 19 sculptures. the square. The Montin and the man Freitag were built in the ki steelworks in Raahe. Hansa House log buildings are first half of the 19th century. The Juva’s sculpture Wind in the plastered. wing facing Rantakatu was later C Statue of Per Brahe Sails can be found in front of the modified and made higher. In library. 1b. Trade House of Lang The statue of Per Brahe, Gov- terms of its façade and cladding, ernor-General of Finland, who Full of fascinating stories from the house is a typical example of the Age of Sail, Lang’s historical the late 19th century: the façade Lower Mansion features a café, is divided by battens into zones shop and B&B. The building was with either horizontal or vertical used for trading in the name of boarding. In the corner of the MUSEUMS Johan Lang from 1811 to 1934. courtyard is a green building lat- 1i. Patala er converted to the Art Nouveau F Packhouse Museum residential building in Raahe. The The buildings around Pekkatori style. Built in 1848, the former Cus- house is the town’s only example Square also include Patala, Sovelius House toms House and Packhouse also of two-storey construction in which later housed Oma-Pata, The Sovelius House is the oldest featured the Seaman’s House, the 18th century. Upstairs, the the canteen cooperative of the surviving residential building in where young sailors signed Shipowner’s Home offers us a teachers’ college. In terms of glimpse of the life of a wealthy Raahe. Refer to Museums, H. up on ships in the Age of Sail. its architecture, Patala is one of Raahe Museum, Finland’s oldest shipowner-merchant family in Raahe’s most impressive classi- non-university museum, was the 1890s. Restored in the Art cistic town houses. t RANTATORI SQUARE established in 1862 and has been Nouveau style, the downstairs Raahe’s original harbour was operating in the building since rooms feature changing exhibi- located here by the town bay, the late 19th century. Among tions. w CHURCH SQUARE Pikkulahti. Raahe’s shipyards The Church of the Holy Trinity other things, the museum dis- were located north of the Pack- plays the history of the Age of I Old Pharmacy was completed in 1912 on the house Museum up until the early The pharmacy was built in 1811– site of the old 17-century wood- Sail in Raahe as well as Mikael 19th century. Due to post-glacial Balt’s wonderful 17th-century 1813. According to tradition, the en church, which had burned rebound, the ship docks and main building was brought from down four years earlier. Repre- church sculptures from Raahe’s harbour had to be moved a few first church. Sweden. The pharmacy moved senting the styles of romantic kilometres to the southwest. The to Kauppakatu in 1924. The im- nationalism and Art Nouveau, effects of post-glacial rebound G Crown Granary Museum pressively eclectic interiors from the church was designed by are illustrated by columns The former Crown Granary dates 1900 were taken from the old architect Josef Stenbäck. The installed on the square. Today, from 1852. The museum show- location opposite to the church. church was built using granite Rantatori hosts a number of cases the history of Raahe from Raahe’s first pharmacy was es- quarried from the Raahe archi- events. Located by the shore, prehistoric times to the modern tablished in 1793. The pharmacy pelago, and its latest renova- Ruiskuhuone (5a) was the age with artefacts like the Old museum’s collection is one of tion in 2011–2012 saw the rich town’s first fire station, where Gentleman, the oldest diving suit the most valuable collections colours of the interiors restored. the steam fire-engine was kept. in the world. of pharmaceutical objects in The altarpiece was painted by The Art Nouveau building was H Finland. The oldest objects date Eero Järnefelt. The sculptures completed in 1906, replacing the Sovelius House back to the late 18th century. by Mikael Balt saved from the Sovio shore-side warehouses. Built in the 1780s, the Sovelius fire of the old church have been The building had a hose tower House is the oldest surviving moved to Raahe Museum. The in the middle, but this was later churchyard features the town’s pulled down. The building now first cemetery and a soldiers’ houses a restaurant with a ter- memorial park cemetery. race. The old fire station, dating from 1942, is located on the i REIPONKATU-KOULU- completed in 1848 and expanded coeducational secondary school Helene Bergbom donated this s SWANLJUNG HOUSE f TOWN HALL The church square is surround- in the early 20th century. in 1952. During the war, the school building to her sister Sofia The impressive main building Designed by Empire architect ed by neoclassical and Empire- southern side of the square. KATU CROSSING The building was used as a military Lybecker’s school in 1859. At an constructed in 1814 by the Swan- Anders Fredrik Granstedt, the style buildings: The building There are several town houses at 8d. Misses Berg’s House was home to dyer Berg’s brother, hospital. In 1958, the building early age, Sofia had become con- ljungs has retained its original plastered log house was built for at features RAAHE THEATRE the crossing that are significant Kirkkokatu 17 (2a) y saddler Jakob Berg, whose son became the central elementary scious about lack of educational appearance, and the closed customs supervisor Brunow in vertical board and batten siding An Art Nouveau building com- in terms of their architecture and Nils continued in his father’s pro- school and later a lower compre- opportunities of girls with limited courtyard with household build- 1839. In 1862, the town pur- and was built in the early 19th pleted in 1913 as Salvation Army the townscape. fession. Nils’s widow later found- hensive school. means, and she established the ings and cellar is a rare sight in chased the partially completed century. Featuring horizontal premises. Now houses Raahe 8a. Dyer’s House ed a bakery, which was continued school with her mother’s inher- Old Town. building from Brunow, who had siding with pilasters, the Theatre. In a fire insurance document from Himan- by her unmarried daughters, the itance in 1843. The girls’ school moved to Hamina, and turned ka House (1812) (2b) has a 1854: “a rather old, one-storey a REIPONKATU later turned into a crafts institute, Misses Berg. Reiponkatu was a street of the it into the town hall. While closed courtyard with old wooden building”. The dyer’s which operated in the same d ÄMMÄNKATU changes have been made to u UNION BANK OF sailors and craftsmen. The street household buildings. The oldest workshop on the Koulukatu side building until the early 1980s. This street was named after the interiors over the decades, parts of the Old Pharmacy (2c) FINLAND dates back to 1851. o KESKUSKOULU was named after ropemakers Today, the Lybecker Institute is cows (ämmy), which were kept the outward appearance of the A plastered brick building de- (“repslagaren” in Swedish). The date from 1787. The Empire-style 8b. Old Clergy House part of the Raahe Municipal Edu- by many households in Raahe. building is in accordance with signed for the bank by architect (CENTRAL SCHOOL) houses were modest and the Väänänen House (2d) dates The old clergy house was built Raahe’s central school, completed In the summer, the cows were Valter Thomé and completed in plots narrow. Household build- cation and Training Consortium. the original plans. from 1813. as the residence for Raahe’s in 1912, was designed by architect walked along the streets and 1915. The palace-like building ings on the side of the church hill 10b. Jacob’s Spring chaplain in 1812. The building was Jac Ahrenberg according to a taken to pastures north of the was inspired by 17th century have been preserved as cultural Located at the northern end of g HÄRKÄTORI PARK used as the parsonage from 1923 Baroque concept in the spirit of town. The name of the district e LEUFSTADIUS HOUSE Baroque architecture. Reiponkatu, this old shared well is of Lehmiranta (Cow Shore) also The Härkätori market square to the 1950s. Per Brahe. The building originally heritage . The oldest part of the house of protected by a decorated wooden dates from this period. was established after the great sea captain Johan Leufstadius 8c. Registrar’s House housed a secondary school and 10a. Sofia Lybecker School structure. The spring is about 250 The wooden house of ropemaker fire of Raahe in 1810. The square dates from 1804, and the small Featuring a hip roof, the beauti- private higher classes, which years old. The well was used until was intended for cattle markets. part facing Cortenkatu, the fully restored town house was were combined into the Raahe J. P. Westerberg, completed in the 1970s. 1840. Zachris Franzén’s daughter