RKY: nationally significant built cultural environments · Finland
Mustilan arboretum
Kouvola, Kymenlaakso, Finland
The record
- Type
- Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
- Elements (as the agency lists them)
- puisto
- Character (as the agency lists it)
- agraarimaisema
- Municipality
- Kouvola
- Region
- Kymenlaakso
- Country
- Finland
- Coordinates
- 60.73239, 26.41620
- Pin
- Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
- RKY number
- 1283
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
The 1666 map covering this location: "Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus" (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1666 · Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica))
The Finnish Heritage Agency's description
Kuvaus
Mustila on maamme vanhin, lajikkeiltaan ja laajuudeltaan suurin arboretum.
Mustilan arboretumin 120 hehtaarin puistoalueella kasvaa lähes 100 havupuulajia, 130 lehtipuulajia sekä lukuisia koristepensas-, köynnös-, ja perennalajia eri puolelta maapalloa.
Mustilan koristepensaista ovat tunnetuimpia alppiruusut, joita on arboretumissa yli 100 lajia ja lajiketta. Alppiruusut kukkivat keskikesällä, jolloin Alppiruusulaakson sadat Rhododendronpensaat puhkeavat kirjavaan kukkamereen.
Laajoina metsikköinä kasvavat vieraat havupuulajit luovat paikoin eksoottisen tunnelman. Puut lumoavat paitsi erikoisuudellaan myös koollaan. Etelärinteen suurimmat douglaskuuset ovat jo noin 40 metriä korkeita.
Historia
Mustilan kartano on osa Wrede-suvulle kuulunutta läänitystä, joka käsitti Anjalan ja Elimäen pitäjät. Kartano joutui 1767 af Forselles-suvun haltuun ja 1901 Tigerstedt-suvulle. Arboretumin perusti todellinen valtioneuvos A.F. Tigerstedt 1900-luvun alussa. Mustilan arvokas tieteellinen tutkimus- ja koealue on ollut kansallinen luonnonsuojelualue 1981 lähtien.
Further reading (as the agency lists it)
Arboretum Mustila. Kotikunnas. Opaskirja. Helsinki 1982.
Marja Terttu Knapas, Kymenlaakson kulttuurihistorialliset kohteet. Kymenlaakson seutukaavaliitto 1984.
Kymenlaakson rakennuskulttuuri. Kymenlaakson seutukakavaliiton julkaisu A:26 1992.
English translation (from the Finnish)
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Description
Mustila is the oldest arboretum in our country and, in terms of its species and its extent, the largest.
The 120-hectare park area of the Mustila arboretum contains almost 100 conifer species, 130 broadleaf species, and numerous ornamental shrub, climber and perennial species from various parts of the globe.
Among the ornamental shrubs of Mustila, the best known are the rhododendrons, of which the arboretum has over 100 species and cultivars. Rhododendrons flower in midsummer, when the hundreds of Rhododendron shrubs in the Alppiruusulaakso valley burst into a colourful sea of blossom.
Foreign conifer species growing in extensive groves create an exotic atmosphere in places. The trees impress not only by their rarity but also by their size. The largest Douglas firs on the southern slope are already about 40 metres tall.
History
Mustila manor is part of a fief that belonged to the Wrede family, which comprised the parishes of Anjala and Elimäki. The manor passed into the possession of the af Forselles family in 1767 and to the Tigerstedt family in 1901. The arboretum was founded by Privy Counsellor A.F. Tigerstedt in the early 20th century. Mustila's valuable scientific research and experimental area has been a national nature conservation area since 1981.
Nearby in the register
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.