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Torron kylä

Tammela, Kanta-Häme, Finland

The record

Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
hautausmaa, kaivos, kirkko, koulu, kylä, talonpoikaistalo
Character (as the agency lists it)
agraarimaisema
Municipality
Tammela
Region
Kanta-Häme
Country
Finland
Coordinates
60.71197, 23.58619
Pin
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RKY number
4474

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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))

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Torron kylä on Hämeen harvaan asutulle metsäylänköseudulle syntynyt raittikylä, jonka nykyinen, suhteellisen pienimittakaavainen, yhtenäinen rakennuskanta on peräisin 1800- ja 1900-lukujen taitteesta. Paikallisteiden risteyksessä sijaitsevalla vanhalla kylätontilla on säilynyt tiivis rakennustapa.

Vahvasti nauhamaisen kyläkeskuksen rakennuskanta ryhmittyy rinteeseen kylänraitin varteen, josta avautuu näkymä Torronjoen rantaviljelmille.

Kylän hautausmaa on 1800-luvulta. Purettuun rukoushuoneeseen liittynyt kellotapuli on rakennettu 1892. Rukoushuoneen paikalla on 1894 valmistunut kansakoulu. Mänkin, Marttilan, Ali-Rekolan ja Nikulan tilakeskusten päärakennukset ovat 1800- ja 1900-luvun vaihteesta.

Pellon etelälaidalla, Keinukallion lounaispuolella, on Heponiitynmäki -niminen kaivos, josta 1700- ja 1800-luvulla on viety kiveä lasin raaka-aineeksi Someron Åvikin lasitehtaalle.

Paimiojoen latvaosille, laajan suoalueen laitaan perustettu Torron kylä asutettiin keskiajalla. Kylässä oli 1500-luvun lopulla viisi taloa.

Kylän elinkeinotoimintaan liittyy maanviljelyn lisäksi lukuisia kivilouhoksia ja kaivoksia, joista kaivettiin kirjomaasälpää Åvikin lasitehtaalle. Kylän kaivosten toiminta-aika noudattaa lasitehtaan toimintavuosia 1740-luvulta 1830-luvulle.

Torron kylään rakennettiin 1800-luvun alussa oma rukoushuone eli kyläkirkko. Hautausmaa vihittiin käyttöön 1801. Kyläkirkkoon hankittiin kello ja rakennettiin kellotapuli 1811. Uusi rukoushuone rakennettiin samalle paikalle 1840-luvulla. Vuosisadan loppupuolella Torrolle puuhattiin kansakoulua, kyläkirkon tontti ja kelvolliset rakennusaineet luovutettiin koulun hyväksi ja tontille jäi vain vanha kellotapuli.

Torron nykyinen hautausmaa vihittiin käyttöön 1891 ja hautausmaan yhteyteen rakennettiin 1969 talkoovoimin uusi kappeli.

Eeva Ojanen, Tammelan historia 1-2. Tammelan kunta 1983, 1992.

Rakennettu Häme. Maakunnallisesti arvokas rakennusperintö. Hämeen liitto 2003.

Köykkä, Stålhammar. "Näin on tehty, Lounaishämäläisiä kyläkuvauksia". 2005.

Kaivoksen perustiedot, internetsivut: http://www.gsf.fi/aineistot/kaivosteollisuus/2.%20Kaivokset/A-Kaivokset_1530_2001_Luettelo.xls

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

Torro village is a linear village that developed in the sparsely populated forest upland area of Tavastia. Its present, relatively small-scale and uniform building stock dates from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. The old village site at the crossroads of local roads has retained a compact building pattern.

The building stock of the strongly linear village centre is grouped on a slope along the village street, which opens onto a view of the riverside farms of Torronjoki.

The village cemetery dates from the 19th century. The bell tower associated with the demolished prayer house was built in 1892. On the site of the prayer house stands a folk school completed in 1894. The main buildings of the farm centres of Mänkki, Marttila, Ali-Rekola and Nikula date from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

On the southern edge of the field, southwest of Keinukallio, is a mine called Heponiitynmäki, from which stone was taken in the 18th and 19th centuries as a raw material for glass, supplied to the Åvik glass factory at Somero.

Torro village, founded on the upper reaches of the Paimiojoki on the edge of a large bog area, was settled in the Middle Ages. At the end of the 16th century the village had five farms.

In addition to farming, the village's economy included numerous stone quarries and mines, from which kirjomaasälpä was dug for the Åvik glassworks. The operating period of the village's mines follows the operating years of the glassworks, from the 1740s to the 1830s.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Torro village was given its own prayer house, or village church. The cemetery was consecrated for use in 1801. A bell was acquired for the village church and a bell tower was built in 1811. A new prayer house was built on the same site in the 1840s. Towards the end of the century, efforts were made to establish a kansakoulu in Torro. The village church site and usable building materials were handed over for the school's benefit, and only the old bell tower remained on the site.

Torro's present cemetery was consecrated for use in 1891, and in 1969 a new chapel was built alongside it by voluntary communal labour.

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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