Kristinestad

Kristiinankaupunki is a city in Swedish Ostrobothnia inside the province of Ostrobothnia in Finland at the east coast of the Bithynian Sea . Kristine tad is a small metropolis with a place of 1,678.98 km², of which 995.Ninety five km² is water. Kristine tad is a bilingual municipality with Swedish as a majority language and Finnish as a minority language. 55.4 percent of the population has Swedish as their mother tongue and forty one.4 percent have Finnish as their mother tongue, whilst three.2 percentage talks other languages. The cutting-edge Kristine tad municipality was formed on January 1, 1973, when the municipalities of Lappfjard, Side with the aid of and Tjock were merged with Kristine tad’s city. Kristine tad’s metropolis middle with its low wooden houses and slender alleys is precise for the duration of the Nordic area, and consequently Kristine tad is often called the Batten Sea gem.

The city has by no means suffered from any most important fires throughout its extra than 350-12 months life, and might therefore gift an almost unspoiled city plan that incorporates 220 major buildings and 69 economic system homes. Kristine tad has been with the worldwide Cittaslow network on account that 2011. The metropolis became founded in 1649 at the island of Koppo at the City Fared within the parish of Lappfjards and turned into then known as Koppo, but from March 1, 1651 Christina Stash. General Governor according to Brahe by using named the town after his spouse, Countess Christina Catharina Steenbok. The surveyor Claus Caisson got here on Per Brahe's initiative in 1651 to attract the city plan, in step with the renaissance plan pattern, for the newly created town, which to a big volume nonetheless applies today.