RKY: nationally significant built cultural environments · Finland
Valkealan kirkon ja kartanon kulttuurimaisema
Kouvola, Kymenlaakso, Finland
The record
- Type
- Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
- Elements (as the agency lists them)
- kartano, kellotapuli, kirkko, puisto
- Character (as the agency lists it)
- agraarimaisema
- Municipality
- Kouvola
- Region
- Kymenlaakso
- Country
- Finland
- Coordinates
- 60.94342, 26.78240
- Pin
- Placed by TreeAlive at the centre of the largest area the agency maps
- RKY number
- 4521
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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
Valkealan erinomaisesti säilyneessä kulttuurimaisemassa näkyvät kirkollisen ja historiallisen maanomistusvallan merkit kirkon ja kartanon ympäristöinä.
Valkealan kirkon ja kartanon kokonaisuus on kehittynyt ja muodostunut vuosisatojen ajan. Kokonaisuus laajenee peltoaukeana suureksi kulttuurimaisemaksi, jossa kirkon ja kartanon yhteys näkyy puistokujanteena.
Valkealan tornillinen pitkäkirkko on arkkitehtien Armas Lindgren ja Bertel Liljequistin suunnittelema ja rakennettu 1926-1927. Tiilestä muurattu kirkko on valkeaksi rapattu. Runkohuoneesta ulkonee seurakuntasali ja sakaristo sekä alttaripäädyssä on särmikäs kuori. Vanhempaan, 1920 palaneeseen kirkkoon liittynyt hirsinen kellotapuli on kirkonrakentaja Juhana Salosen 1782 rakentama.
Valkealan kartanon nykyinen 1856 valmistunut päärakennus on tyypillinen kertaustyylejä suosivaan vaiheeseen kuuluva kartanorakennus. Kartanoa ympäröi kirkolta alkava erittäin vehmas, järveen rajautuva puisto.
Historia
Valkealan kartano syntyi 1640-luvulla, kun valtaneuvos Erik Gyllenstierna perusti talonpoikaisen kylän paikalle säterin. Isossa reduktiossa kartano peruutettiin kruunulle ja määrättiin Viipurin läänin jalkaväkirykmentin everstiluutnantin virkataloksi. Virkatalojärjestelmä lakkautettiin 1810 ja kartano siirtyi yksityiseen omistukseen.
Valkealan kylään oli 1620-luvulla perustettu kappeliseurakunta ja rakennettu oma kirkko. Kappeliseurakunta itsenäistyi 1631. Seuraava kirkko rakennettiin samalle paikalle 1674. Kirkko paloi 1795 ja Juhana Salosen sen tilalle 1796 rakentama kahtamoinen paloi vuorostaan 1920. Kirkko ympäristöineen on 1600-luvun alusta muovannut Valkealan keskeistä maisemaa.
Further reading (as the agency lists it)
Marja Terttu Knapas, Kymenlaakson kulttuurihistorialliset kohteet. Kotka 1984.
Kymenlalakson rakennuskulttuuri. Kymenlaakson seutukaavaliitto A:26 1992.
Eeva-Liisa Oksanen ja Kari-Matti Piilahti, Valkealan historia II. Pieksämäki 1995.
English translation (from the Finnish)
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Description
In the excellently preserved cultural landscape of Valkeala, the marks of ecclesiastical and historical land ownership are visible in the surroundings of the church and the manor.
The ensemble of Valkeala church and manor has developed and taken shape over the centuries. The ensemble extends as an open field into a large cultural landscape, in which the connection between church and manor is visible as a park avenue.
The towered pitkäkirkko of Valkeala, a long church, was designed by the architects Armas Lindgren and Bertel Liljequist and built in 1926–1927. Built of brick, the church is rendered white. The parish hall and the sacristy project from the nave, and at the altar end there is a polygonal chancel. The timber bell tower associated with the older church, which burned in 1920, was built in 1782 by church builder Juhana Salonen.
The present main building of Valkeala manor, completed in 1856, is a typical manor building belonging to the phase that favoured revival styles. The manor is surrounded by a very lush park, beginning at the church and bordered by a lake.
History
Valkeala manor came into being in the 1640s, when Privy Councillor Erik Gyllenstierna established a säteri on the site of a peasant village. In the Great Reduction the manor was reclaimed for the Crown and designated as the official's farm (virkatalo) of the lieutenant colonel of the Viipuri Province infantry regiment. The official's farm system was abolished in 1810, and the manor passed into private ownership.
In the 1620s a chapel parish was established in the village of Valkeala and its own church was built. The chapel parish became independent in 1631. The next church was built on the same site in 1674. The church burned in 1795, and the kahtamoinen church built by Juhana Salonen in its place in 1796 burned in turn in 1920. Together with its surroundings, the church has shaped the central landscape of Valkeala since the early 17th century.