Ristinarkku () is a district in Tampere, Finland. The district also includes the Janka's residential area. There are a school and several retail stores in the area. The area is close to the city center and has apartment buildings as well as townhouses. The Sampo Highway runs through Ristinarkku,Sami Raninen
TAMPERE JANKA - Arkeologinen tarkkuusinventointi
Pirkanmaan maakuntamuseo, 2011. (in Finnish) and the district is bordered on the south by the Tampere– Haapamäki railway and on the east by the eastern part of the Tampere Ring Road (

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). The neighboring parts of the city are

Hakametsä Hakametsä is a smaller district of Tampere, Finland, located about four kilometers from its city center. The neighboring parts of Hakametsä are Huikas, Ristinarkku, Messukylä, Vuohenoja, Kalevanrinne, Kaleva, Kissanmaa and Uusikylä. Hakam ...

, Huikas,

Takahuhti Takahuhti is a district in Tampere, Finland. It is located in eastern part of the city, close to Atala, Linnainmaa, Kissanmaa and Messukylä. There are many prehistoric residences and finds in the area. Takahuhti was the largest village in M ...

, Pappila, Linnainmaa,

Hankkio Hankkio is a district in Tampere, Finland, located in the eastern part of the city. The neighboring parts of the city are Messukylä, Ristinarkku, Linnainmaa, Vehmainen, Haihara, Kaukajärvi and Viiala. The Hankkio district is bordered on the ...

and Messukylä. The Ristinarkku area was the center of the village of Takahuhti, which belonged to Messukylä, where most of the village's houses were still built in the late 19th century as a dense group. The rest of the name Ristinarkku is most likely based on the word ''orko'', which means a meadow or field cleared of drooping. Professor Viljo Nissilä has speculated that a

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who has not had local knowledge has written the word ''orko'' in what he thinks is a more understandable form of ''arkku'' (meaning "

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"). Thus, the original name ''Ristinorko'', which would have meant the field cleared next to the road junction and gradually also the junction, would have changed into ''Ristinarkku'' (literally meaning the "coffing of cross") with a similar phonetic status in the Finnish language. On the other hand, the word ''arkku'' is also ambiguous, as it can refer to, for example, a coffin or a bridge support. The roots of the name may date back to the 13th century, as the medieval settlement of Takahuhti had become a group village by the 14th century at the latest. The first town plan of Ristinarkku was confirmed in the 1950s. The name of the Vehnämyllynkatu street is based on the wheat mill located in Ristinarkku, built in the late 19th century. The mill was demolished in connection with the construction of a street bridge across the railway in 1957.Louhivaara 1999, p. 191.

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