Uskelan kirkonmäki ja Lukkarinmäen esikaupunkiasutus

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Uskela church, situated on a high hill, has a prominent location visible from a great distance. Lukkarinmäki, the suburban area that arose outside the former Salo market town, is situated along Suuri Rantatie, the medieval-origin road leading to the church, and together with the church hill rising to its south it forms a landscape feature of considerable impact.

The stone church of Salo, built according to a drawing by the Intendent's Office, was completed near the site of the medieval church in 1830. A tower for the bells was added to the western gable of the Pitkäkirkko in 1860. The spacious and bright nave, in its proportions, has a curved board vault. The fixed interior is empire style in its overall appearance.

The war heroes' grave area on the southern slope of the church hill was designed by architect Aulis Blomstedt. Its memorial is the stone lower part of a medieval bell tower, above which a cross with vine tendrils rises. Inside is a bronze bell made by sculptor Sakari Tohka, bearing a verse from Goethe's Faust: Yksin jää et kussa lietkin, sillä sinut tuntenemme, käymään tummat tuonen tietkin, sua saattaa sydämemme. The area, consecrated in August 1953, is linked by grass fields and staircases to the monumental memorial of 1918.

Suuri Rantatie, which is also included in the selection as a separate item, rises after crossing the Salo or Uskelanjoki river to Lukkarinmäki as Uskelankirkkotie, and from there onwards towards Uskela church. The alignment of the road has run through the churchyard. Lukkarinmäki is a suburban area of the market town that developed in the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century. Its oldest building stock is densely situated along Suuri Rantatie and on the highest point of the hill, from where there is a view south to Uskela church.

Vähäsilta, from which Uskelankirkkotie begins, is one of the oldest crossing points of the Salmi or Vähäjoki river. The bridge was renovated in the 1950s and in 2002.

History

The medieval chapel church of Pyhä Anna, which belonged to the mother parish of Uskela in Salo, was built in the 15th century on the southern slope of the present churchyard. The medieval church was demolished, and its stones were used in building the present church in 1830.

The hill near the chapel church took its name from the established residence of the parish clerk (lukkari). On the north-western slope of Lukkarinmäki, at the junction of Raivaajankatu and Kulkurinkuja, there is a possible Iron Age burial ground, sacrificial site or hoard. In the 1780s, according to the general land survey maps, Lukkarinmäki was mainly fields and pasture, and at the beginning of the 19th century there were farms named Klåckare and Torp along Suuri Rantatie. From the 19th century onwards, poor people's settlement grew up on the hill outside the Salo market town. Building was unregulated, and neither the town plan drawn up for the area (Bertel Jung 1912) nor the plot division plans (Bruno Kock 1926–1936) were fully realised. Lukkarinmäki was annexed to the Salo market town in 1932. In the Winter War the area suffered bomb damage. Traffic from Salo southwards and towards Helsinki ran through Lukkarinmäki along Suuri Rantatie until 1937, when the new Perniöntie was built and Uskelankirkkotie remained the main thoroughfare of the residential area.