Kaskinen is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Western Finland and is part of the Ostrobothnia region. The population of Kaskinen is 1,278 and the municipality covers an area of 10.49 km2 (4.05 sq mi) (excluding sea areas) of which 0.16 km2 (0.062 sq mi) is inland water. The population density is 121.83/km2 (315.5/sq mi). Kaskinen is the smallest municipality in Finland with a town status and its only border neighbor is the town of Närpes.
The population is bilingual with a majority speaking Finnish (68%) and the minority Swedish (28%).
Culture
Food
Kaskinen officer for food named in the 1980s Gubben Rönkä or runka , salt herring with mashed potatoes , served puolukkasurvoksen and melted butter sauce.
Economy
The city includes the port of Kaskinen .
In 2015, there were 479 jobs in the municipality. Of these, 5.2 per cent were in primary production (agriculture, forestry and fishing), 39.7 per cent in processing and 53.7 per cent in services. The share of processing was higher than in the whole country (20 per cent).
The companies that paid the most corporate tax in 2016 were Oy Sonnfish Ab, Kuivaniemen Kala Oy and Kaskitek Oy.
Architecture
In the 18th century, a town plan based on a grid pattern with long, straight and wide streets was drawn up for the city , and the plan prepared for a clearly larger population than has ever been settled there since. Thus, there are still many undeveloped plots in the city, and the urban settlement hardly extends beyond the original zoned area. Kaskinen is also popular for wooden house construction.
The cityscape of Kaskinen consists of uniform wooden construction. The old town of Kaskinen has a grid pattern from the 1760s and there are several completely renovated wooden houses in the area. One of the oldest houses in the city is the Bladh House , built in 1788 , which has served as a church and co-educational school. In the 1990s, the house was renovated to meet the needs of cultural life and civic actors.
A new residential area was built in Kaskinen in the 1970s to meet the needs of workers in the pulp industry. The area is located on the other side of the railway and consists of 1970s detached houses and apartment buildings. The newer Anttila detached house area was built in a park environment in the 1980s.
