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Viinijärven rautatieasema

Liperi, Pohjois-Karjala, 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
Liperi
Region
Pohjois-Karjala
Country
Finland
Coordinates
62.64191, 29.23473
Pin
Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
RKY number
4189

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Viinijärven rautatieasemalla on monipuolinen ja yhtenäinen rakennuskanta, josta suurin osa on aseman perustamisajalta vuosilta 1926-1927.

Asemarakennuksen lisäksi Viinijärven rautatieaseman kokonaisuuteen kuuluu kaksoisvahtitupa, tavaramakasiini, vesitorni sekä asuinrakennuksia talousrakennuksineen. Viinijärven risteysaseman kautta on kuljetettu Outokummun kaivosalueen malmi Joensuuhun.

Eduskunta päätti 1926 normaaliraiteisen radan rakentamisesta Joensuusta Outokummun kuparikaivokselle Kuusjärvelle. Rata kulki Liperin kunnan halki ja sinne rakennettiin neljä asemapaikkaa, joista Viinijärvi oli toinen varsinainen asema. Rata valmistui 1928 ja sitä jatkettiin Varkauden suuntaan juuri ennen sotia 1939, mutta avattiin liikenteelle vasta syksyllä 1940.

Viljam Piiroinen (toim.), Liperi eilen ja tänään. Joensuu 1966.

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

Viinijärvi railway station has a varied and uniform building stock, most of which dates from the founding period of the station, 1926-1927.

In addition to the station building, the Viinijärvi railway station ensemble includes a double watchman's cottage, a goods storehouse, a water tower and residential buildings with their outbuildings. Ore from the Outokumpu mine area has been transported to Joensuu via the Viinijärvi junction station.

In 1926 Parliament decided to build a standard-gauge line from Joensuu to the Outokumpu copper mine at Kuusjärvi. The line ran through the municipality of Liperi, and four station sites were built there, of which Viinijärvi was the second proper station. The line was completed in 1928 and was extended towards Varkaus just before the wars of 1939, but was opened to traffic only in the autumn of 1940.

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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