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Kuhalan talo

Viitasaari, Keski-Suomi, Finland

The record

Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
pihapiiri, talonpoikaistalo, talousrakennus
Character (as the agency lists it)
agraarimaisema
Municipality
Viitasaari
Region
Keski-Suomi
Country
Finland
Coordinates
63.23688, 25.87458
Pin
Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number
2023

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Kuhalan talon pihapiiri rantapeltoineen on harvinaisen hyvin säilynyt esimerkki talonpoikaisesta maatalouselinkeinosta ja rakentamisesta.

Kuhalan yksinäistalo sijaitsee Koliman Kuhanlahdella, Koliman kylässä, kalaisuudestaan tunnetun Koliman rannalla. Talon rakennuskanta, joka jakautuu mies-, karja- ja riihipihaan, koostuu paristakymmenestä rakennuksesta. Päärakennus, suuret karjasuojat ja aitat sulkevat pihapiirin neljältä sivulta. Varsinaisen pihapiirin ulkopuolella on aittoja, latoja, liitereitä, paja ja riihi.

Rakennukset ovat etupäässä 1800-luvulta. Kaikki rakennukset ovat hirsipintaisia ja maalaamattomia, 1900-luvun alussa rakennettua päärakennusta lukuun ottamatta. Kotipellon reunassa metsäsaarekkeissa on useita hirsisiä latoja.

Hyvien vesireittien varrelle kuuluva Koliman järven ympäristöt kuuluivat keskiajalla Hämeen talojen eräalueisiin. Alueen kiinteä asutus alkoi syntyä vasta 1500-luvun alkupuolella ja siitä vastasivat etupäässä savolaiset. Koliman kylään kuuluvan Kuhalan talo perustettiin 1690-luvun nälkävuosien jälkeen, 1707 isäntänä oli Matti Erkinpoika.

Kuhala muodostettiin perintötilaksi 1710, mistä saakka se on säilynyt saman suvun hallussa. Pitäjän väkiluvun kasvaessa 1700-luvun lopulta alkaen, kasvoi myös viljelymaan tarve. Viitasaarella oli raivauskelpoisia soita runsaasti. Viitasaarella ensimmäisenä raivauspalkinnon sai 1841 Lauri Niskanen Koliman Kuhalan tilalta.

Markkanen Erkki, Vanhan Viitasaaren historia, Saarijärvi 1983.

Viitasaaren rakennusinventointi, Osmo Kaitalehto. Keski-Suomen museo 1985.

Jussi Jäppinen (toim.), Viestejä maisemassa. Keskisuomalainen kulttuuriympäristö. Jyväskylä 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 yard of the Kuhala farm with its shore fields is a rarely well-preserved example of peasant farming livelihood and building.

The solitary Kuhala farm is located at Kuhanlahti in Kolima, in the village of Kolima, on the shore of Kolima, which is known for its fishing. The farm's building stock, divided into the men's yard, the livestock yard and the threshing yard, consists of some twenty or more buildings. The main building, large cattle shelters and granary storehouses enclose the yard on four sides. Outside the actual yard area there are granary storehouses, barns, liiterit, a forge and a threshing barn.

The buildings are mainly from the 19th century. All the buildings are log-faced and unpainted, except for the main building, which was built at the beginning of the 20th century. On the edge of the home field, in forest islands, there are several log barns.

Kolima lake and its surroundings, located along good waterways, belonged in the Middle Ages to the wilderness areas of the Tavastia farms. Permanent settlement in the area only began to form in the first half of the 16th century, and it was mainly Savonians who were responsible for it. The Kuhala farm, belonging to the village of Kolima, was established after the famine years of the 1690s; in 1707 the master of the farm was Matti Erkinpoika.

Kuhala was formed into a hereditary holding in 1710, since when it has remained in the possession of the same family. As the population of the parish grew from the end of the 18th century, the need for cultivated land also increased. Viitasaari had abundant bogs suitable for clearing. In Viitasaari, the first clearing prize was received in 1841 by Lauri Niskanen of the Kuhala farm in Kolima.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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