Pietarsaaren rautatieasemanseutu (Jakobstads järnvägsstation med omgivning)

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

The Pietarsaari railway station area, with its customs and pakkahuone building and storehouse buildings, illustrates the industrialisation of the Ostrobothnian coast at the end of the 19th century and the shift of transport from sea to rail.

Pietarsaari railway station is located on the eastern edge of the historic town centre, and its area is bounded by architecturally impressive former storehouses. The station building was built in 1887 to the type drawings of the Class IV station of the Oulu line and extended in 1928. The station has a rare wooden locomotive shed and, as its extension, a newer single-stall brick locomotive shed. The station complex includes a twin guardhouse.

The station area includes the customs and pakkahuone building, a tobacco storehouse and the tullihuoneenpuisto. The customs and pakkahuone building was built to drawings by Valter Thomé and Karl Lindahl in 1908. The red-brick tobacco storehouse is a design by Grahn & Hedman & Wasastjerna and dates from 1905. The log-built storehouse building, the so-called Myntin makasiini, is the only surviving building from the series of six merchants' storehouses.

History

The branch line from the Oulu line (1883) to Pietarsaari had to wait for its realisation until kauppaneuvos Malm donated 200,000 markkaa of the time to the project. The line came to 14 km in length. Work began in 1886 and the line opened the following year. The town decided to build a new harbour quay for transit freight and, lacking funds, appealed to the Railway Board to extend the line to the harbour.