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Kontiomäen rautatieasema

Paltamo, Kainuu, Finland

The record

Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
liikenteenrakennus
Character (as the agency lists it)
taajama
Municipality
Paltamo
Region
Kainuu
Country
Finland
Coordinates
64.33761, 28.11397
Pin
Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number
1449

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Kontiomäen tärkeä risteysasema yhdistää Oulu-Joensuu -radan ja pohjoiseen Taivalkoskelle kulkevan radan. Laaja asema-alue ravintoloineen, tavaramakasiineineen, veturitalleineen ja rautatieläisten asuinalueineen on rakennettu monessa vaiheessa.

Mansardikattoisen asemarakennuksen vieressä on ravintola omassa rakennuksessaan. Lisäksi asema-alueella on asuinrakennuksia talousrakennuksineen sekä konttori ja tavaramakasiini. Asema-alueeseen olennaisesti kuuluvat veturitalli ja vesitorni sijaitsevat asema-alueen eteläpäässä.

Ajatus Kainuun yhdistämisestä rataverkkoon Joensuusta käsin oli herännyt katovuosien viljankuljetuksen yhteydessä 1880-luvulla. Savon radan valmistuminen Kajaaniin saakka 1904 nosti keskusteluun sen jatkamisen Pohjanlahden rantaan Ouluun. Joensuun suuntaan rata eteni Nurmekseen asti 1911.

Nurmes-Oulu-radan rakentaminen aloitettiin 1918. Kontiomäen liikennöinti alkoi 1922, jolloin arkkitehti Gunnar Aspelinin suunnittelema asemarakennus valmistui. Suuri osa asema-alueen muistakin rakennuksista valmistui 1920-luvulla; tavaramakasiini rakennettiin 1927 ja asemaravintola 1926. Erillisiä ravintolarakennuksia oli tehty isoille asemille 1910-luvulta lähtien.

Kontiomäeltä pohjoiseen kulkeva rata Taivalkoskelle valmistui ennen sotia 1935.

Eljas Karjalainen, Kohteena Kontiomäki. Paltamo 1995.

Maarit Pimiä, Paltamon kulttuuriympäristöohjelma. Kainuun ympäristökeskus. Kuopio 2000.

Sirkka Valanto, Suomen rautatieasemat vuosina 1857-1920. Museovirasto, rakennushistorian osasto. Julkaisu 11/1982.

Sopimus valtakunnallisesti merkittävien asema-alueiden suojelusta (YM, päätös 9.12.1998 diarionro 2/562/96).

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

Kontiomäki, an important junction station, connects the Oulu-Joensuu line and the line running north to Taivalkoski. The extensive station area, with its restaurant, goods storehouses, engine sheds and railway workers' residential areas, was built in several phases.

Next to the mansard-roofed station building is a restaurant in its own building. The station area also has residential buildings with outbuildings, as well as an office and a goods storehouse. The engine shed and water tower, which are essential parts of the station area, are located at its southern end.

The idea of connecting Kainuu to the rail network from Joensuu arose in the 1880s, in connection with grain transport during years of crop failure. The completion of the Savonrata as far as Kajaani in 1904 brought its extension to the Gulf of Bothnia coast at Oulu into discussion. Towards Joensuu, the line reached Nurmes in 1911.

Construction of the Nurmes-Oulu line began in 1918. Traffic to Kontiomäki began in 1922, when the station building designed by architect Gunnar Aspelin was completed. A large part of the other station-area buildings were completed in the 1920s; the goods storehouse was built in 1927 and the station restaurant in 1926. Separate restaurant buildings had been built at large stations from the 1910s onwards.

The line running north from Kontiomäki to Taivalkoski was completed before the war, in 1935.

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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