RKY: nationally significant built cultural environments · Finland
Kaipiaisten rautatieasema
Kouvola, Kymenlaakso, 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
- Kouvola
- Region
- Kymenlaakso
- Country
- Finland
- Coordinates
- 60.90045, 27.11788
- Pin
- Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
- RKY number
- 4178
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Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)
The 1666 map covering this location: "Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus" (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1666 · Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica))
The Finnish Heritage Agency's description
Kuvaus
Pietarin radan Kaipiaisten asema on maamme rataverkostossa poikkeuksellinen ns. saariasema, jossa rata kulkee asemarakennuksen molemmin puolin. Asemarakennus on ollut poikkeuksellisen suuri; 1870 valmistuneesta asemarakennuksesta on puolet purettu ja siirretty Uttiin.
Aikanaan laajan asema-alueen rakennuskantaan kuuluvat edelleen ravintolan työntekijöiden asuinkasarmi, sen talousrakennus, kaksoisvahtitupa vuodelta 1888 ja aseman itäpuolella sijaitseva asemapäällikön talon pihapiiri vuodelta 1881. Muutoksista huolimatta asema-alue on mielenkiintoinen ja siellä on rakennustyyppejä, joita ei ole muualla säilynyt.
Asema-alueen yhtenäinen ilme on rikkoutunut alikulun ja linkkimaston rakentamisen jälkeen.
Historia
Riihimäki-Pietari -radan Kaipiaisten asema valmistui 1868-1870. Asemarakennus tehtiin poikkeuksellisen kookkaaksi, sillä junat pysähtyivät Kaipiaisten asemalla tasatakseen Pietarin ja Helsingin aikaeron. Asemarakennuksen ravintolasalissa saatettiin odotusaikana nauttia ravintolan palveluista. Asemarakennus jaettiin kahtia 1920-luvulla ja toinen puoli siirrettiin Uttiin siellä palaneen tilalle. Myös veturitalli, molemmat pitkät veturiliiterit ja asuinkasarmi on purettu.
Further reading (as the agency lists it)
Kirsti Hellgren, Sippolan historia. 1957.
Kymenlaakson rakennuskulttuuri. Kymenlaakson seutukaavaliiton julkaisu A 26 1992.
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
Description
The Kaipiainen station on the Pietarin rata is an exceptional so-called island station in our rail network, where the track runs on both sides of the station building. The station building has been exceptionally large; half of the station building completed in 1870 has been demolished and moved to Utti.
The building stock of what was once a large station area still includes the residential barracks for restaurant workers, its outbuilding, a double guard house dating from 1888, and the yard of the station master's house on the east side of the station, dating from 1881. Despite changes, the station area is interesting and includes building types not preserved elsewhere.
The uniform appearance of the station area has been disrupted since the construction of the underpass and the link mast.
History
The Kaipiainen station on the Riihimäki-Pietari line was completed in 1868-1870. The station building was made exceptionally large, because trains stopped at Kaipiainen station to even out the time difference between Pietari and Helsinki. In the restaurant hall of the station building, travellers could enjoy the restaurant's services while waiting. The station building was divided in two in the 1920s, and one half was moved to Utti to replace a building that had burned down there. The locomotive shed, both long locomotive storehouses and the residential barracks have also been demolished.