Kalajoki is a coastal town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Oulu and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Livelihood
Industry
Forest Industries
- Kalajoki, like the whole of Ostrobothnia , is a forest-covered lowland. So there is a lot of forest in Kalajoki, and over time there have been several sawmills. Currently only one, Junnikkalan Saha.
Metal industry
- Kalajoki Diamond Drilling (Oy Kati Ab) is a private company specializing in mineral exploration services.
- Konehuolto T. Pöyhtäri is a company specializing in agricultural machinery and metal construction.
Wind turbines
TuuliWatti Oy began to build in the spring of 2014 Kalajoen Mus-ti-lan-kan-kaalle Finland’s largest wind farms. The total capacity of the park’s 22 wind farms is 73 megawatts.
Tourism
The sandbars of the Kalajoki River attract tourists in summer.
- Sandbars
Services
- Port of Rahja
- Tuontitukku.fi fish jokinen online shop and store different goods
Events
- Holiday Housing Fair 2014. In the summer of 2014, the Finnish Housing Fair and the City of Kalajoki organized a holiday housing fair in Hiekkasärk .
- Kalajoki X-Games . The event, organized for the first time in 2007, brings Kalajoki the best in Finland in the field of snowboarding and Newschool. The time of the event is at the beginning of June in Hiekkasärk.
- Kalajoki Autumn Market. Ever since the establishment of the Kokkola city shopping area in 1620, a market has been held in Kalajoki. This market is always held in the autumn at Plass, which is the oldest area in Kalajoki.
- Sandpiper Midsummer. Every year, Kalajoki’s Juhannus has gathered people all over Finland to gather on sandy beaches to watch the midnight sun and sunbathe.
- The Venetians of Kalajoki
- Kalajoki Fair 26-27 May 2012 and 10-11 June 2017. Held every five years.
- Beachfutis Finnish Open. Every summer beach football event, which is held in the Hiekkasärkkä area.
- Miss Sandbars. Every summer, the event, where Miss Sandbars are selected, is organized by the Model Office Matiné.
- Bimmer Party. An event organized by Bimmer Tuning Club Of Finland at the turn of June-July for BMW car owners and those interested in them. The event area is the Kalajoki small aircraft airport.
- Strongest Man on the Coast Race. The event is organized by Restaurant Dyyni.
- Kajari – fish music festival of light music. In the Kalajoki market area every first Saturday in August.
Attractions
Attractions in Kalajoki include Maakalla’s old milieu with its archipelago churches in Kallankari and Ulkokalla lighthouse island, Hiekkasärkät and Rahja archipelago .
The Kalajoki brick church is from the end of the 1870s. The Kalajoki rectory, built in 1802, burned down in 2011 and was renovated in the same year. The wooden church of Rauti dates back to 1800, the wooden church of Himanga is a few years older.
The statue of master skier Jussi Kurikkala is in Kalajoki, as is the tomb of Wilhelm von Schwerin, who excelled in the Battle of the Squirrels.
History
The first reference to Kalajoki can be found from the beginning of 16th century and it got the status of a parish in 1525, it was designated as a regional parish in 1545. This status ended with the abolishment of the parish form of organization in the early 1860s. Kalajoki was a significant market place and controlled the whole region’s tar trading. By the end of 19th century the meaning of tar was diminishing as a good and the importance of Kalajoki was reduced thereafter.
The tar trade was a derivative of the forestry industry, and Kalajoki has long been the location of forestry activities. There are still sawmills in operation in the city today.
In addition to tar trading, Kalajoki has long been a farming community, producing a variety of agricultural products, including wheat and rye. There are many farms still operating in the city, and there is a weekly market during the spring and summer months where local farmers and merchants sell their products.
