Halisten kylämäki (Byn Hallis)

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

Halinen village hill is one of some ten village hills in the Aura River valley that have been continuously inhabited since at least the Iron Age. The village has kept its traditional layout, and its building stock dates mainly from the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.

Halinen village is located on the north side of the Aura River, beside the Halistenkoski rapids, along the local road leading from the old Räntämäki, that is Maaria church, to Ravattula. The long settlement history of the village hill is attested by one Stone Age find and several Iron Age finds. The village includes the farms of Tätilä, Komonen and Koski-Frantsi. The fields slope down to the riverbank. The rapids landscape of Halistenkoski, which is significant to industrial history, is dominated by the Turku waterworks, brought into use in 1923, with its dam.

Halinen village hill is located in the Aura River valley landscape area of national value.

History

The mouth of the Aura River was at Halinen in the 9th century, after which the rapids began to obstruct sailing up the Aura River as the water became shallower. In 1560, Halinen village in the parish of Maaria had three farms: Tätilä (later Kreula), Kallonen (now Komonen) and Löytänä (Frantsi, now Koski-Frantsi). At the time of the isojako in 1787, the village's three farms were in their present locations.

Production units arose at the Halistenkoski rapids already in the Middle Ages. The first written mentions of the Halisten mylly, the Halinen mill, date from 1352. In the 16th century, on the bank of the rapids, was Finland's earliest net factory. In addition to the net mill, the rapids were home to flour and chamois-leather mills. In the 18th century the rapids had two flour mills, a tamppimylly and a vanuttamo. In the 19th century dye and chalk factories were built on the bank of the rapids. At the beginning of the 1920s the new Turku city waterworks was built on the south bank of the Aura River. Next to it there was then a plum mill, which was demolished in the 1920s, and a bakery, which was converted into a residence for the head of the water purification plant. The residential building for the staff of the waterworks, which was brought into use in 1923, was built on the other side of Halistentie. The waterworks was extended and modernised in 1931, 1935 and 1942.

Halinen, which belonged to the municipality of Maaria, was merged into Turku in 1944. A new bridge was built over the Halistenkoski rapids in the 1980s, when the old bridge built in the 1930s was left as a light traffic route.