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Lepikon torppa

Pielavesi, Pohjois-Savo, Finland

The record

Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
merkkimieskoti, merkkimieskoti, museo
Character (as the agency lists it)
metsämaisema
Municipality
Pielavesi
Region
Pohjois-Savo
Country
Finland
Coordinates
63.22124, 26.78347
Pin
Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number
1305

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Pielaveden kirkonkylän läheisyydessä sijaitsee presidentti Urho Kekkosen (1900-1986) synnyinkoti, Lepikon torppa. Kekkonen kertoi kasvaneensa savupirtissä korostaakseen kansanomaisia lähtökohtiaan ja kirjoitti Lepikon talosta: "Tämä on Lepikon torppa, synnyinkotini. Niillä eväillä, jotka olen saanut kodistani, vanhemmiltani ja heidän ystäviltään sekä elämänympäristöstäni vuosisadan alussa, olen elämässäni selvinnyt."

Torppa, joka on rakennettu 1860-luvulla, käsitti alkuaan vain yhden savutuvan. Nykyisen laajuutensa ja asunsa torppa on saanut 1900-luvun alussa. Torppa toimii matkailukohteena ja se on sisustettu osin Kekkosen perheen alkuperäisillä käyttöesineillä.

Lepikon torppa muodostettiin mäkituvasta torpaksi 1860-luvulla. Metsätyönjohtaja Juho Kekkonen osti työmaansa tuntumasta Lehdon tilaan kuuluneen torpan perheen asunnoksi kesällä 1900. Ostamisen jälkeen Juho kunnosti rakennusta mm. muutettiin savutuvasta uloslämpiväksi ja se sai nykyiset T-jakoiset ikkunat. Kekkoset asuivat Lepikon torpassa kuusi vuotta, jonka jälkeen Juho Kekkosen työmaat veivät perheen Kuopion ja Lapinlahden kautta Kajaaniin.

Poliittista merkitystä asuinrakennus sai 1949, jolloin Kekkonen pyrki ensimmäisen kerran presidentiksi. Tällöin Lepikon torpan valokuvasta retusoitiin savupiippu pois, jolla pyrittiin korostamaan ehdokkaan juurevaa taustaa "savupirtin poikana".

Lepikon torppa restauroitiin Urho Kekkosen syntymäkotimuseoksi 1960-luvulla.

Lepikon torppa. Tasavallan presidentti Urho Kekkosen syntymäkoti. Esite. Iisalmi 1990.

Alfred Kolehmainen, Lepikon torppa. Helsinki 2000.

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

In the vicinity of the church village of Pielavesi is the birthplace of President Urho Kekkonen (1900-1986), Lepikko croft. Kekkonen said he had grown up in a savupirtti in order to emphasise his humble origins, and he wrote about Lepikko farm: "This is Lepikko croft, my birthplace. With the resources I have received from my home, from my parents and their friends, and from my living environment at the beginning of the century, I have managed to survive in life."

The croft, built in the 1860s, originally comprised only one savutupa. The croft acquired its present extent and form at the beginning of the 20th century. The croft serves as a tourist destination and is partly furnished with original household objects belonging to the Kekkonen family.

Lepikko croft was formed from a mäkitupa into a croft in the 1860s. In the summer of 1900, forestry foreman Juho Kekkonen bought, near his work site, a croft belonging to the Lehto farm as a home for his family. After buying it, Juho renovated the building, including converting it from a savutupa to an uloslämpivä, and it received its present T-divided windows. The Kekkonens lived in Lepikko croft for six years, after which Juho Kekkonen's work sites took the family via Kuopio and Lapinlahti to Kajaani.

The residential building acquired political significance in 1949, when Kekkonen first sought the presidency. At that time the chimney was retouched out of a photograph of Lepikko croft, in an attempt to emphasise the candidate's rooted background as the son of a savupirtti.

Lepikko croft was restored as the Urho Kekkonen birthplace museum in the 1960s.

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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