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Kaunislehdon talomuseo

Hyrynsalmi, Kainuu, Finland

The record

Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
muinaisjäännös, museo, pihapiiri, talonpoikaistalo, talousrakennus
Character (as the agency lists it)
agraarimaisema
Municipality
Hyrynsalmi
Region
Kainuu
Country
Finland
Coordinates
64.62378, 28.37536
Pin
Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number
1289

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Kaunislehdon talomuseo on hyvä esimerkki Kainuun erätalouteen ja kaskiviljelyyn perustuneesta omavaraistaloudesta harvaan asutulla metsäseudulla. Vaara-asutusta edustavan Kaunislehdon yksinäistalon pihapiiri rakennuksineen on 1800- ja 1900-luvun taitteesta.

Etelään viettävälle vaaran rinteelle rakennetun keskikoisen tilan pihapiirissä on kaikkiaan 18 rakennusta, joista osa alkuperäisellä paikallaan, osa siirrettyjä.

Pihapiirin vanhin rakennus on ruoka-aitta vuodelta 1774. Päärakennus on vanha torppa, joka on toiminut myös kämppänä ja kouluna. Sen pirttiosa on 1920-luvulta, porstua, keittiö ja kamarit 1890-luvulta. Rahdinajajien talli on vuodelta 1825. Alueella on sauna, paja täydellisine pajakalustoineen, Hyrynsalmen viimeistä savupirttimallia edustava kruununtorpparin pirtti, piimäaitta, vaateaitta, jyväaitta, riihi, riihilato, masiinahuone, lammasnavetta, navettakota, navetta ja lato, käymälä, kongitalli, rahdinajajien talli, kamarirakennus ja heinälato. Museoalueella on nähtävissä myös rautahytti ja tervahauta.

Kaunislehdon talon paikka on kaskettu useita kertoja. Maisema ja paikalle rakennettu torppa sai nimensä 1800-luvun alussa poltetun viimeisen kasken pohjalle kasvaneesta kauniista lehtometsästä. Hyrynsalmen kunnan omistaman Kaunislehdon talomuseon kokoaminen ja restaurointi aloitettiin 1967. Museo avautui samana vuonna.

Jorma Keränen, Kainuun asuttaminen. Studia historica Jyväskyläensia 28. Jyväskylän yliopisto 1984.

Matti Huurre, Jorma Keränen ja Oiva Turpeinen, Hyrynsalmen historia. Hyrynsalmen kunta ja seurakunta 1988.

Mika Heikkilä, Hyrynsalmen kulttuuriympäristöohjelma. Suomen ympäristö 259. Ympäristöministeriö 1998.

Päivi Tervonen, Kainuun maakunnallisesti arvokkaat rakennushistoriallliset kohteet. Kainuun museon julkaisuja 2006.

English translation (from the Finnish)

The text above is the record as published by the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto), in Finnish. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto); it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com

The Kaunislehto Folk Museum is a good example of a self-sufficient farm economy based on wilderness economy and slash-and-burn cultivation in the sparsely populated forest region of Kainuu. The yard complex of the Kaunislehto solitary farmstead, which represents hill settlement, dates from the turn of the 1800s and 1900s.

The yard complex of this medium-sized holding, built on the south-facing slope of the hill, comprises 18 buildings in all, some in their original location and some moved.

The oldest building in the yard complex is a food granary storehouse dating from 1774. The main building is an old croft, which has also served as a cabin and a schoolhouse. Its pirtti section is from the 1920s, while the porstua, kitchen and chambers are from the 1890s. The carters' stable dates from 1825. The site includes a sauna, a smithy with its complete smithing equipment, the crown crofter's room representing the last savupirtti model of Hyrynsalmi, a dairy granary storehouse, a clothes granary storehouse, a grain granary storehouse, a kiln barn, a kiln shed, a machine room, a sheep cowshed, a cowshed cottage, a cowshed and barn, a privy, a kongi stable, the carters' stable, a chamber building and a hay barn. Also visible on the museum site are an iron smelting furnace and a tar pit.

The site of the Kaunislehto farm has been cleared by slash-and-burn several times. The landscape and the croft built on the site took their name from the beautiful deciduous forest that grew on the ground of the last slash-and-burn clearing, which had been burned at the beginning of the 19th century. The assembly and restoration of the Kaunislehto farmhouse museum, owned by Hyrynsalmi municipality, began in 1967. The museum opened the same year.

Descriptions are shown with the written permission of the Finnish Heritage Agency and reproduced unchanged. Locations come from its open spatial data; pins are placed by TreeAlive. Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto) · Spatial data: CC BY 4.0
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