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HyvinkHyvink (Hyvinge in Swedish) is a small town in the province of Uusimaa, approximately 50 km north of the capital Helsinki. The town was chartered in 1960. Hyvink belongs to the county of Southern Finland. The population was 43,169 (in 2004). Highways and rail connections make it one of the suburban commuter centers of Greater Helsinki. The city planning has had an emphasis on recreational facilities, acknowleding the fact that the modest city center cannot compete with the shops and boutiques of the capital. History Hyvink village was gradually formed in latter half of the 19th century. The construction of railways through Finland in 1861 marked the starting point for the rapid growth. The air quality of Hyvink was considered healthy due to dense pine forests, and in the 1880s a group of physicians from Helsinki opened a sanatorium for patients seeking rest and recuperation. The industrialization brought a wool factory, the Donner family's Hyvinge Yllespinneri, to Hyvink in 1892. The factory ceased its operation in the 1990s, but the red-brick halls still remain. Famous People from Hyvink External links:
Hyvink (Swedish Hyvinge) is a town in the county of Southern Finland, in the province of Uusimaa. It got the town rights in 1960. The population at the end of the year 2002 was 42 997. Since the 1500's there was a tavern in the area of the present Hyvinknkyl, whitch lies somewhat half-way between Helsinki and Hmeenlinna. The first tax catalogs also marked the existence of some houses in the area around the same time. Hyvink has been known as a railway town and location of its present centre indeed was determined by the building of the Helsinki - Hmeenlinna track. The Hyvink railway station is one of the few original stations which still are in its original use. From Hyvink the rail also branches to Hanko. In the early 1900's the station village was an intermediate stopping point to many immigrants who left from Hanko for America. In the 1800's a wool factory was founded to the locality and it indeed was a fillip to the locality. Later on the textile industry has died down but to the buildings of the wool factory a uuskytt has been invented, among others, in the exhibition activity. In Hyvink there has also been a reputation as the town of clean air and a special sanatorium, in other words a sanatorium to which the wealthy Russians and Finns came to get care and to rest was indeed built there. The known buildings in Hyvink are, among others, the Church (1961) of Hyvink and the manor house of Kytj. Hyvink airfield served as the country's main airport after the second world war for a short while when the airport of Malm was used by the control commission of the ones which had allied. There's a motorsport's center near the airfield.
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