Hatanpään kartano

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Hatanpää manor, with its main building, villas and park in their late 19th-century form, represents the North Häme manor culture that developed in the 18th century outside the south-western Finnish and Uusimaa manor zone.

The manor's most significant building stock, on a headland projecting into Pyhäjärvi, consists of two residential palaces designed by architect Sebastian Gripenberg at the end of the 19th century: the neo-Renaissance main building and the neo-Gothic Idman villa, together with the manor's farm buildings.

The park and the park avenue, at the end of which the main building stands, originated as early as the late 18th century. The park has survived in its form from the 1896 renovation and is today, in the manner of an English landscape park, divided by an extensive network of paths. The park's central axis runs from behind the main building to the shore of Pyhäjärvi. The park is terraced, and stone steps lead from it to, among other places, the boat landing. The shore is bordered by a stone wall. Much of the park's tree stock consists of native deciduous and coniferous trees, and among them are, among others, Siberian fir and Siberian pine.

History

In its earliest written sources from 1540, Hatanpää was mentioned as a village of three farms. The original farms were merged at the end of the 17th century. Hatanpää became a ratsutila in 1694, and the Tausko augmenttitila was added to it in 1698, when it passed into noble ownership. In the middle of the 18th century Hatanpää developed into a large-scale farming estate under the ownership of Hans Henrik Boije, during which time the manor park was also established. Later the manor was owned by kruununvouti Gabriel Ahlman, ironworks manager L.G. Lefre and laamanni Nils Johan Idman, who took possession of the property after 1825. During the almost hundred-year period of the Idman family, the wooden main building, built in the 18th century and raised to two storeys, was destroyed by fire. A new main building was built on the old site in 1883-1885 to the drawings of architect C.S. Gripenberg, and in 1898 a residential palace designed by Gripenberg, the so-called Idman villa, was built in the park.

The park was completely renewed under the direction of city gardener K.J. Gauffin at the end of the 19th century. New paths and plantings were laid out at that time, as well as a stone fence. There were four greenhouses. Only some trees were saved from the old park, and the fruit garden was also renewed. One of the park's paths was named Kuninkaankuja after Kustaa III visited the park in 1778. Construction of the arboretum and rose garden began in the 1970s.

The Idman era at Hatanpää ended in 1912 with a major embezzlement case, as a result of which the manor, together with its extensive land areas, passed to the city of Tampere. Hospital activity began on the Hatanpää peninsula in 1916, when a mental hospital was placed in the log Pirtti building, and it was moved to the manor's main building during the First World War. A military hospital was placed in the villa, the cowshed and the Pirtti, and the villa was converted into a municipal hospital in 1919. Hospital buildings designed by architect Bertel Strömmer were built beside the manor in 1935, and have been extended many times since the 1960s. After hospital use, from 1970 the Hatanpää manor main building housed the Tampere City Museum, and for a short time the collections of the Sara Hildénin säätiö were also housed there. The main building has housed the Doll and Costume Museum, and the villa has housed offices of the City of Tampere.