300 m
Former Tynkä Mill
Kalajoki
A turbin-powered Mill was built in Tynkä’s Hihnakoski (rapids) in 1917.
The “Tynkä Mill, Electricity, and Saw Cooperative” (Tyngän Mylly, Sähkö ja Sahaosuuskunta) was founded on the 6th of December 1916. The Governor of Oulu verified the code of the company on 27th of January 1917.
The aim was to offer the villagers of Tynkä affordable services. A plot of land, hydroelectric rights, and right to use the rapid on the north bank was bought for the mill.
The lower part of the mill and the sawmill building were finished in the summer of 1917. The machinery started and the mill opened in the autumn of 1917.
The mill started producing electricity already in 1920. During the autumn of 1921 power lines were installed to the houses in Pitkäsenkylä and Ylikääntä. Electric lights started working in the houses in December.
When the Kalajokilaakso Sähkö Oy (Electricity Co.) was founded in 1950, the Tynkä mill traded its power lines to stocks. Powering electricity came to a final end in 1984, when the mill cooperative sold the entire business to the town.
Since then, the mill had a private owner but their business also came to an end a few years ago.
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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