Storsandsundin kyläasutus (Storsandsunds bosättning)

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Storsandsund is a street village densely built along the church road leading to Pedersöre. Its building stock, partly dating from the 18th century, is typical of the Swedish-speaking coastal region and well preserved.

The settlement, situated on two hills in the undulating terrain on the bay of Storsandsund, forms a well-preserved, traditional Ostrobothnian cultural landscape. An old church road leading to Pedersöre, built in the 16th century, runs through the village.

The residential buildings of the three houses of Stenfält and Sandfält (Storsandsundsvägen 115-121) stand in a row side by side, and the outbuildings are located on the opposite side of the old road. The building stock is well preserved. The old road alignment forms part of the present road, and in part the old road survives in the landscape as a visible footpath.

The so-called Carlander house was built in the 1740s. The holding is already mentioned in the 16th century. The single-storey main building was built by raatimies Johan Josef Carlander and was extended in the latter part of the 18th century. Across from it stands the Aspegren house, probably built in the 1770s. The buildings have belonged to the same holding. The buildings still form a complex characteristic of Ostrobothnian building tradition. There is also a new residential building on the site today.

History

On the coast of Ostrobothnia, at the mouth of the Purmonjoki, there was a dense concentration of large villages in the 1560s. Pedersöre parish was founded around the middle of the 13th century.