
Perttula ( sv, Bertby) is a rural village along the
Lopentie
Finnish regional road 132 ( fi, Seututie 132, sv, Regionalväg 132), or Loppi Road ( fi, Lopentie, sv, Loppisvägen) is the road between Highway 3 ( E12) and Highway 54, which starts at the southern end from the border of Vantaa and Nurmijärvi ...
road in
Nurmijärvi
Nurmijärvi () is the most populated rural municipality of Finland, located north of the capital Helsinki. The neighboring municipalities of Nurmijärvi are Espoo, Vantaa, Tuusula, Hyvinkää and Vihti, and it is part of the Greater Helsinki. ...
,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...
. Living is focused to agriculture. It's rounded neighboring villages like
Uotila,
Numlahti,
Valkjärvi and
Nummenpää. Nurmijärvi's largest village
Klaukkala
Klaukkala (; sv, Klövskog , ) is the southern-most urban area ( fi, taajama) of the Nurmijärvi municipality in Uusimaa, Finland, located near Lake Valkjärvi. It is the largest urban area in Nurmijärvi, and despite the fact that it officially ...
is located eight kilometers southeast of Perttula.
Like a
lake who gave the municipality its name, there was another lake near the Perttula village called
Kuhajärvi, which was also drained in the early 20th century.
Swedish-Finnish composer
Bernhard Crusell
Bernhard Henrik Crusell (15 October 1775 – 28 July 1838) was a Swedish- Finnish clarinetist, composer and translator, "the most significant and internationally best-known Finnish-born classical composer and indeed, — the outstanding Fi ...
lived in part of his childhood in Perttula.
Biography of B. H. Crusell at the Crusell Society website
Accessed 8 March 2010.
See also
*Kuhakoski
Kuhakoski (; literally meaning "zander rapids") is a rapids near the village of Perttula in Nurmijärvi, Finland.
*Nurmijärvi (village)
The Nurmijärvi church village (also known as Nurmijärvi; fi, Nurmijärven kirkonkylä) is the administrative center of the municipality by the same name in Uusimaa, Finland, with about 8,000 inhabitants. At the end of 2018, the population of th ...
* Perttula executions
References
Villages in Finland
Nurmijärvi
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