Hagenin ja Ramsholmenin puistoalue (Hagens och Ramsholmens parkområde)

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

The Hagen and Ramsholmen park-forest area is a typical park and recreation area formed in connection with towns at the end of the 19th century, combining natural and cultural elements. The area illustrates the cultural meanings given to nature.

Hagen and Ramsholmen, situated south of the old town of Tammisaari, have been opened to townspeople for recreation since the 1870s, and park buildings, park paths and planted trees have been added to the area. The oldest park buildings at Ramsholmen probably date from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The present music and dance stage dates from the 1960s. The structures of the open-air theatre built in the area in 1915 have partly survived.

The Hagen area also has two villas built in the 19th century: Villa Snäcksund at the south-western tip of the area, and Villa Ormnäs at the south-eastern corner of Hagen on the shore of Dragsvikinlahti. The former has been renovated as an artist's residence, and the latter is used by the Tammisaari Museum and the Pro Artibus art foundation. A camping area is connected with Hagen's Ormnäs.

The low-lying parts of the Hagen and Ramsholmen nature park are lush, grove-like park-forest areas, including oak forests, which are protected as a nature conservation area. On the drier upper parts, the dominant tree is pine.

Forest areas converted into parks were established in the late 19th century in connection with several towns. Other comparable sites include Heinola's Harjupuisto, Hämeenlinna's Kaupunginpuisto and Jyväskylä's Harju.

History

Hagen and Ramsholmen were the horse pasture of the latokartano manor of Tammisaari until the early 19th century. The town bought the area in 1836, after which it was used as slash-and-burn and pasture land.

In the 1870s the area began to take shape as a recreation area for town dwellers. The volunteer fire brigade of Tammisaari, founded in 1873, held its first festivities on the island of Ramsholmen in 1876. The first plantings were made in 1878 on both sides of the road leading from Snäcksund to the festival site at Ramsholmen. The same year the first bridge was completed from Hagen over Snäcksund to Ramsholmen. Ekenäs FBK built a bandstand on the island in 1891. The present bandstand, designed by the town's building master, was built in 1968.

Grazing, which prevented the renewal of noble broadleaf trees, was banned in 1903. The actual care of the park and the preservation of the grove areas began in 1947. By decision of the provincial government, the area became a nature conservation area in 1990.

Villa Snäcksund, located in the Hagen area, was built in 1857 by master baker M.M. Engberg, who received permission to run an inn on the site. The inn went bankrupt in 1865, after which the building has been used as a residence. Villa Ormnäs was built in 1885 by State Councillor's wife J. Frenckell. In addition to the main building, the original building stock of the villa included a servants' room, laundry room and bakehouse, a combined stable, woodshed and cowshed, and a bathhouse. The villa operated as a boarding house from 1931 to 1934, and later the Tammisaari craft school also operated in it.