Mommolan kartano

English translation (from the Finnish)

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Description

The buildings of Mommola manor, set in a tightly built courtyard complex, have survived exceptionally well, both in their external appearance and their interiors, in the form of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Mommola gives a genuine and good picture of the manor culture of its construction period and of the way manors were built.

Mommola manor lies at the head of Kirkkojärvi, on a hillock surrounded by fields along the Mommolanjoki river. The courtyard complex consists of a main building, two symmetrically placed side buildings, and it has taken its present form in several stages over more than two hundred years. An old formal garden is attached to the main building.

According to oral tradition, the first storey of the main building dates back as early as the end of the 17th century. The central section was raised and the fixed interior fittings were renewed in the Gustavian style in the 1780s. The two-storey main building in its present form was acquired during the ownership of Turku merchant Christian Hjelmerus. The kitchen wing at the northern gable end of the main building dates from the 1830s or 1840s.

The single-storey side buildings bounding the sides of the courtyard also developed in several stages. The northern side building consists of two separate buildings, the so-called yläkyökki, which comprises a large tupa, a hall and a room originally intended as a milk chamber, and a keskeissali building completed by the mid-18th century at the latest. The southern side building, known as the Vanha tupa, consists in turn of three separate buildings: two residential tupas and a luhtiaitta, together with spaces built between them at a later date. The date A D 1766, carved into the log gable triangle, probably indicates the time of construction. The holding also includes a cowshed, a stable and a granary storehouse. The present stable yard area was originally the courtyard of the Skepparsi farm. Mommola has traditionally been reached by crossing the river further north than the present crossing. Restoring the birch avenue leading to the holding as the main access road has been planned.

On the eastern bank of the Mommolanjoki, on the old village plot area, stand the Toija stone lainamakasiini from 1856 and the Meller kantatila. The main building, of keskeissali type, on the basis of the old ratsutila, dates from 1856. The holding also includes the Maunu stone cellar combined with it, and numerous outbuildings from the first half of the 20th century.

History

Mommola manor (ratsutila) was mentioned as one of the five original farms of the Toija village of Kisko in the 1540 land register. The neighbouring Skeppars ratsutila was merged into Mommola in 1781. Originally a peasant farm, its owners in the 18th century were priests, soldiers and judicial officials.

The courtyard acquired its manorial character during the time of governor Olof Wibelius. The most significant change to the present main building came in 1781-1783, when Wibelius raised the central part of the main building to two storeys. The fixed interiors of both floors were given a contemporary Gustavian style, with breast panelling, mirror doors and plastered stoves. The old 12-pane windows with lead frames were replaced with four-pane windows.

The main building took its present form in 1824, when its second storey was built to full length, the external cladding was completed, and a gabled roof characteristic of the Empire period was built in place of a mansard roof.

In the 1920s, repairs were carried out on the main building to the designs of architect Eva Kuhlefelt-Ekelund, without changing the old room layout or the fixed interior. The residential rooms of the northern side building were renovated in 1935 to the designs of the same architect. Restoration and conservation work was carried out at Mommola in the early 2000s.