Messukylä ( sv, Messukylä, also ) is a former municipality of

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which was annexed by the city of

Tampere Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...

in 1947. The medieval stone church (built c. 1540) in Messukylä is the oldest building in Tampere. During the

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(1918), Messukylä was the scene of heavy battles around both the medieval and new churches.

History

Messukylä was first mentioned in 1439, when it was a part of

Pirkkala Pirkkala (; sv, Birkala) is a municipality of Finland. It is located some south-west from Tampere in the Pirkanmaa region. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is , which makes ...

. The village of Takahuhti is even older, its area has had permanent inhabitants before the 14th century. Messukylä became a separate parish in 1636, though it already had a chapel community in the 15th century.

, mentioned as early as 1666, was originally a part of Messukylä and was split off from it as a town in 1773.

Teisko Teisko () is a village and former municipality in Pirkanmaa region, Finland. It was consolidated in 1972 with Tampere, and at the same time Tampere got new districts: Kämmenniemi, Polso, Terälahti and Velaatta. Teisko's neighboring municipal ...

was a part of Messukylä until 1865, while Aitolahti was a part of Messukylä until 1923.

Areas added to Tampere

Kyttälä Kyttälä is a district in Tampere, Finland. It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, Kyttälä is now a part of the city center between the Tammerkoski river an ...

was a part of Messukylä until 1877. The area where

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was later built was added to Tampere at the same time. The areas surrounding the Hatanpää manor, including

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, Multisilta and Lakalaiva, were transferred from Messukylä to Tampere in 1920. The residential area of Rantaperkiö was later built near Hatanpää. The rest of Messukylä was consolidated with Tampere in 1947.

People born in Messukylä

* J.R. Aspelin (1842 – 1915) * Heikki Lindroos (1865 – 1915) * Penna Paunu (1868 – 1920) * Kalle Suosalo (1869 – 1918) * Frans Oskar Lilius (1871 – 1928) *

Antti Kaarne Antti Johannes Kaarne (27 November 1875, Messukylä - 14 July 1924, Turku; surname until 1906 ''Karlsson'') was a Finnish industrial worker, smallholder, newspaper editor and politician. He was a member of the Parliament of Finland, representing ...

(1875 – 1924) * Vilho Lehokas (1876 – 1918) * Feliks Kellosalmi (1877 – 1939) * Antti Linna (1916 – 2000) * Tellervo M. Koivisto (1927 – 1982) * Jorma Peltonen (1944 – 2010)

References

Districts of Tampere Former municipalities of Finland Populated places disestablished in 1947 {{WesternFinland-geo-stub