300 m
Sillanpää
Kalajoki
At the beginning of the 1900s, the Sillanpää area became the center for social life, trading and industries in Kalajoki.
Youth Club
Kalajoki Youth Club (Nuorisoseura) was founded in 1894. They bought the Sillanpää house (built by dyer Forsberg) in 1903 and soon renovated it according to designs by Nestori Haila. The beautiful new house had electricity and a piano.
The Youth Club had a library and a reading room, and they held meetings for a speech- and conversationalist club, theater club, and sports club.
Town meetings were also organized in the house between 1904-1915.
A cafe and bakery opened in the building in the 1920s and later it also worked as a movie theater.
SOK opened a new cafe and bakery inside the Youth Club’s building in the 1930s. This café was still working until the 1960s.
During the last years of Sillanpää, it operated as a bus station. The house was demolished in 1980 by bank Osuuspankki.
Co-operative store
Consumerist’s co-operative store (Osuuskauppa) opened in 1917, inside a building they bought from Kalajoen Kauppa Co. The building was expanded and renovated in the 1930s, following the ideals of classism: big showroom windows and sun canopies were installed.
A modern, white, functionalist house was built next to the older co-operative store in 1940. It had business spaces and a restaurant inside.
Bank Säästöpankki, bank Kansallis Osake, pharmacy and the first elementary school of Kalajoki were also located around Sillanpää.
Image description:
- Youth Club and co-operative store (Kalajoen kotiseutuyhdistys / Kalajoki local association)
- Aerial shot of the old bridge and Sillanpää (Kalajoen kotiseutuyhdistys / Kalajoki local association)
Cultural history of Tynkä by bike
“Churches, crime scenes, and landscapes”
The popular biking route, Bridges of Tynkä, has many fascinating sites of local history that even date back to the Middle Ages.
For 500 years, Kalajoki has been an important center for farming and social life, where many different enterprises and businesses have flourished.
The route consists of stories, historical research, cultural heritage, and art. For example: the locations of the first and second church of Kalajoki, historical crime scenes, art, traditional landscapes, antiques...
Route details:
- The route is app. 18 km long.
- The biking route uses a sidewalk almost the entire length of the route. In Tynkä, you have to bike along the “highway” for a few hundred meters.
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