Paltaniemi is a
village on the shores of
Lake Oulujärvi, about north of the
Kajaani's town center in
Kainuu
Kainuu ( sv, Kajanaland) is one of the 19 regions of Finland (''maakunta'' / ''landskap''). Kainuu borders the regions of North Ostrobothnia, North Savo and North Karelia. In the east, it also borders Russia (Republic of Karelia).
Culturally Kai ...
,
Finland. It has a population of 291 inhabitants (in December 2020).
The
Kajaani Airport is located in the eastern side of the village.
From the 17th century until the end of the 19th century, Paltaniemi was the spiritual center of Kainuu, where the most important priests and officials of the parish lived.
Paltaniemi's current wooden church, completed in 1726, is the village's third; the first church was destroyed in an
earthquake in 1626 and the second church was burned by the
Russians during the
Great Wrath
The Great Wrath (, in contemporary sources: , 'Era of Russian domination/supremacy'; ) was a period of Finnish history dominated by the Russian invasion and subsequent military occupation of Finland, then part of the Swedish Empire, from 171 ...
in 1716.
Paltaniemi belonged to
Paltamo municipality until 1954, before the village was incorporated into
Kajaanin maalaiskunta.
Paltaniemi is especially known as the birthplace of the Finnish poet
Eino Leino, and the Eino Leino House
museum is located on the site of his former birthplace.
Elias Lönnrot, known as the compiler of the Finnish national epic ''
Kalevala'', also lived in the village while working as a doctor in Kajaani.
The German zoologist , who also worked as a
Gestapo spy, maintained a
zoological station in Paltaniemi between 1928 and 1939.
References
External links
Paltaniemi's locationat Fonecta
Kajaani
Villages in Finland
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