Jussinkylä (also known as Juhannuskylä) is a neighbourhood in the city center of

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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. It is located east of

Tammerkoski Tammerkoski is a channel of rapids in Tampere, Finland. The city of Tampere is located between two lakes, Näsijärvi and Pyhäjärvi (Tampere region), Pyhäjärvi. The difference in altitude between these two is and the water flows from Näsij ...

and borders

Satakunnankatu Satakunnankatu is an east–west, busy street in the center of Tampere, Finland, which is one of the city's main streets. It starts from the vicinity of Tampere Cathedral on the east side of Tammerkoski, where it separates the Jussinkylä and Kyt ...

in the south. To the east and northeast, the district is bounded by a railway and to the northwest by Lapintie. The

Erkkilä Bridge Erkkilä is a Finnish language surname, derived from the given name Erkki, a form of Eric.''Dictionary of American Family Names''"Erkkilä Family History" Oxford University Press, 2013. Retrieved on 21 January 2016. Notable people with the surname i ...

(''Erkkilän silta'') connects Jussinkylä to Tammela. The most significant landmarks in the area are

Tampere Cathedral Tampere Cathedral (, ; originally known as St. John's Church) is a Lutheran church in Tampere, Finland, and the seat of the Diocese of Tampere. The building was designed in the National Romantic style by Lars Sonck, and built between 1902 and 190 ...

and

Tampere Central Fire Station The Tampere Central Fire Station () is a fire station located at Satakunnankatu 16 in the Jussinkylä, Tampere, Finland, on the eastern shore of Tammerkoski. The Art Nouveau-style fire station building, completed in 1908, was designed by architect ...

. Neighboring neighborhoods are Finlayson,

Tampella Oy Tampella Ab was a Finland, Finnish heavy industry manufacturer, a maker of paper machines, locomotives, military weaponry, as well as wood-based products such as packaging. The company was based mainly in the Naistenlahti, Naistenlahti di ...

and

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 a ...

, from which the latter runs a route along the

Tuomiokirkonkatu Tuomiokirkonkatu (literally "Cathedral Street") is a north–south street in the center of Tampere, Finland, which runs through the districts of Jussinkylä and Kyttälä. The street is about a kilometer long. In the north it ends at Lapintie, i ...

street. The background to the name of the district is unknown, but it has been in use since at least the 1870s. It may refer to a person named

Johannes Johannes is a Medieval Latin form of the personal name that usually appears as " John" in English language contexts. It is a variant of the Greek and Classical Latin variants (Ιωάννης, '' Ioannes''), itself derived from the Hebrew name '' Y ...

, or even to the celebration of

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.Maija Louhivaara: ''Tampereen kadunnimet'', p. 80-81. Tampereen museoiden julkaisuja 51, 1999, Tampere. (in Finnish)

Sources

* Jutikkala Eino: ''Tampereen historia III'', Tampere 1979. * Rasila Viljo: ''Tampereen historia II'', Tampere 1984. * ''Tampereen kantakaupungin rakennuskulttuuri'', Tampere 1998.

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