Orimattila is a town and municipality in the Päijänne Tavastia region, Finland.
The municipality has a population of 15,881 and covers an area of 814.01 square kilometres of which 28.87 km2 is water. The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Culture
The permanent exhibition of the Orimattila Art Museum features Ilmari and Toini Wall-Hakala Art Foundation’s Finnish fine art from the early 19th century to the 1950s, Pentti Papinaho’s sculpture collections and the Orimattila Erkot exhibition. In addition, the museum has changing exhibitions and events. Orimattila Orimattila operating theater friends managed Orimattila theater . Orimattila’s theater friends, which act as an umbrella organization, take care of the running of Orimattila’s Summer Theaters and other related ancillary activities.
Attractions
Orimattila Kehräämö, domestic animals , Orimattilan Local History Museum , Orimattila bottle museum , art museum , theater, Orimattila church , Soile Yli-Mäyry Art Castle and Villa Rosa.
- See also: Lake Artjärvi attractions
- List of Orimattila’s public works of art and monuments
Food culture
Orimattila pitäjäruoiksi named in the 1980s ryynyrokka, carrying milk , Smoked meats , baked potatoes , boiled dry pieces of bread and bread pudding varimakia a hot water mixed with the syrup .
History
The oldest known settlement in Finland has been found in Orimattila. The history of the parish of Orimattila begins with the founding of the parish in 1636, when it was separated from the parish of Hollola .
Administratively, the parishes of Orimattila and Hollola were temporarily united during the Great War after the Great Northern War caused the Russian occupation of Finland. At that time, Pastor Anders Herkepaeus of Orimattila was ordered to collect taxes also from Hollola after Pastor Gustaf Berner escaped to Sweden in 1714.
In Finland , the parish administration was replaced by the municipal administration as the Grand Duke of Finland by decree in 1865. Prior to this, the independence of municipalities from parishes had been considered for years in the early 1860s. The municipality of Orimattila is a local government unit separated from the parish of Orimattila by a municipal decree of 1865 . Continuation War lost Kirvusta inhabited a lot of migrant Karelians Orimattila.
The municipality of Orimattila introduced the name city in 1992. In 2009, Orimattila decided not to participate in the municipal association negotiations between the eight municipalities in Päijät-Häme , but to continue as an independent municipality. Orimattila City Council and Artjärvi Municipal Council unanimously approved the Orimattila and Artjärvi Municipal Association on March 22, 2010. The Association of Finnish Municipalities entered into force on 1 January 2011.
