Mikkelin rautatieasema

Mikkeli, Etelä-Savo, Finland

The record

Type: Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them): liikenteenrakennus
Character (as the agency lists it): kaupunki
Municipality: Mikkeli
Region: Etelä-Savo
Country: Finland
Coordinates: 61.68771, 27.27704
Pin: Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number: 4171

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Kuvaus

Mikkelin rautatieasema on toinen alkuperäisistä Savon radan III luokan asemista ja ainoa säilynyt ylemmän luokan asemarakennus Savon radalla.

Mikkelin asema, kuten muutkin radan asemarakennukset, on toteutettu Oulun ja Vaasan radan piirustusten mukaan. Rakennus muodostaa arvokkaan päätteen Hallituskadulle. Rautatieaseman länsipuolella on rautatieläisten kaksikerroksinen tiilinen asuinrakennus vuodelta 1922 sekä sodanaikainen vara-asema.

Historia

Mikkeliläiset havittelivat rautatieyhteyksiä jo 1860- ja 1870-lukujen taitteessa, jolloin pohdittiin vesiyhteyksien jatkamista Pietarin radalle Lappeenrannan kautta. Enimmäkseen mikkeliläiset käyttivät Taavettia yhteysasemanaan. 1870-luvulla suunnitelmissa oli yhteysrata Taavetista Mikkelin kautta Jyväskylään.

Päätös Savon radan rakentamisesta tehtiin valtiopäivillä 1885. Työt Mikkelin kohdalla alkoivat 1887, ensin Kuopioon päin ja sen jälkeen kilpailun risteysasemasta voittaneeseen Kouvolaan. Mikkelin asemarakennus valmistui 1889. Rakennusta laajennettiin 1925. Radan puolella oleva umpinainen poikkipääty oli alunperin avonainen kuisti.

Mikkeli oli 1890-luvulla Pieksämäen rinnalla ehdolla Oulun ja Karjalan radat yhdistävksi risteysasemaksi. Pitkään puhutti myös vuodesta 1913 itänyt ajatus Heinola-Mikkeli -yhteysradasta.

Savon radan linjausta suunniteltiin ensin kaupungin länsireunalle, mutta koska kaupungin laajeneminen olisi näin estynyt, päätettiin rata sijoittaa kulkemaan rannan puolelle.

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Mikkeli railway station is the second of the original class III stations on the Savon rata and the only surviving higher-class station building on the Savon rata.

Mikkeli station, like the other station buildings on the line, was built to the drawings of the Oulu and Vaasa railways. The building forms a valuable terminal to Hallituskatu. On the west side of the railway station are a two-storey brick residential building for railwaymen from 1922 and a wartime backup station.

History

The people of Mikkeli hoped for railway connections already at the turn of the 1860s and 1870s, when continuing water links to the Pietari railway via Lappeenranta was considered. Mostly the people of Mikkeli used Taavetti as their connecting station. In the 1870s plans included a connecting line from Taavetti via Mikkeli to Jyväskylä.

The decision to build the Savon rata was taken at the Diet in 1885. Work at Mikkeli began in 1887, first towards Kuopio and afterwards towards Kouvola, which had won the competition for the junction station. The Mikkeli station building was completed in 1889. The building was extended in 1925. The closed cross gable on the track side was originally an open porch.

In the 1890s Mikkeli, alongside Pieksämäki, was a candidate to become the junction station connecting the Oulu and Karelia railways. For a long time the idea of a Heinola-Mikkeli connecting line, which had surfaced since 1913, was also debated.

The line of the Savon rata was first planned for the western edge of the town, but since the town's expansion would thus have been prevented, it was decided to route the line on the shore side.

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

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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