Tourism
The Tyrnävä region shows off all the best aspects of the plains characteristic to northern Ostrobothnia. The scenic expanses of open field are a sight for sore eyes, and at migration time it is impossible to miss the great flocks of geese and cranes. Tyrnävä is a lively, contemporary municipality full of sport, entrepreneurship and care for our common environment.
Cultural Paths
Temmes Cultural Path
The provincial spirit is strong in Temmes: the museum area is looked after as a joint effort with the public and the Temmes Days are organised to foster local culture. One famous cultural name to have come out of Temmes is academic Martti Haavio, a.k.a. the poet P. Mustapää (1899-1973).
Temmes Church
The Lutheran church in Temmes was designed and built between 1766 and 1767 by Antti Kallenpoika Louet. The wooden ‘poor boy’ next to the church dates from 1858.
Old Dairy
Construction work on the dairy finished in 1923. Its operations ceased in 1949 and since then the building has served as many things, including a mill and a garage. Even the Temmes local government was at one time housed in what was for a long time one of the largest buildings in the municipality.
Temmes Town Hall
The Town Hall was built in 1968 from plans drawn by engineer Veli Koskela. After the Municipality of Temmes fused with Tyrnävä, the building has housed a library and a day-care centre.
Home District Museum
The Museum area contains 13 buildings, the oldest dating from the 1760s. Construction of the area began in 1967 and it is maintained as a joint effort with the public.
Jokela House
At the end of Kievarinkuja you will find Jokela House, built in 1912. The main building has been preserved in its original state and other old buildings have been moved onto the grounds. The owners are collectors by nature: one example is a set of over 8,000 empty bottles.
Tyrnävä Cultural Path
The centre and immediate surroundings of Tyrnävä combine an old peasant-style agricultural milieu, the small-scale industrial environment of the early twentieth century and contemporary architecture. Tyrnävä is home to a famous seventeenth-century church-builder, Matti Joosepinpoika Härmä, and to the poet Väinö Kirstinä.
Tyrnävä Church
This Lutheran church representing the Neo-Gothic style dates from 1873 and was designed by district architect F.W. Lüchow.
The Museum
A grain silo from the 1860s houses a museum which has a large collection of skies. In the museum you can also browse a file of stories about Tyrnävä clairvoyant from the early twentieth century known as the Mirror Boy, who, among other things, solved crimes by looking in his mirror.
Skier Statue
The first documented skiing competition in Finland was held in Tyrnävä in 1879. A statue designed by Tauno Seppänen was erected to commemorate its 100-year anniversary.
Kirkkomännikkö School
This unusual wood-covered, arched-roof building was added in 1997 to the side of a school dating from the 1950s. The school is located in the heart of Tyrnävä, opposite the church. The new building was designed by architects Maija Niemelä and Pentti Myllymäki.
Town Hall and Surroundings
The Town Hall, completed in 1987, is located in the former grounds of a large farmhouse. It was designed by architects Maija Niemelä and Pentti Myllymäki. The Old Town Hall, situated next to the new one, was once one of the buildings on Hirvelä farm.
The Parsonage
The Parsonage was built in 1932 on the ruins of the former parsonage, which had burnt down the previous year. The building’s style is Neo-Classical and it no longer serves as a parsonage.
Dairy Environment
Our culturally and historically valuable dairy environment is a close industrial estate located along the first street ever to be built in Tyrnävä, Meijerikatu. The basic appearance of the area remains as it was at the beginning of the twentieth century. The oldest building in the surroundings is the dairy, ‘Kivipirtti’, built in 1906 out of natural stone. The flourmill in the area has been transformed into a library, though respecting the look of the old building and using old work methods. Opposite the library is an old cheese dairy, which currently houses a multidisciplinary long-distance high school. Pömilä (the ‘Grumblery’) gets its name from the farmers who used to go there to have coffee and a chat while waiting for their grains to be ground. The residential buildings in the area have been restored and are being used for their original purpose.
In 2010 an EU-funded project was completed, and the library is now extended into the Dairy. The newspaper and magazine reading area and also the internet computer section are located there. There are also five (5) business offices in the dairy building, which the council leases out.
The new park in the area is to honour the times of the frame-saw and the stacks of wood outside it. Hence the shape of the flower racks.
Old Cemetery
The grounds of the old cemetery were the location of both the first (1647) and the second (1664) church in Tyrnävä. The latter was destroyed by arson in 1856.
Homestead House
A house called ‘Tihisen pytinki’ was moved to the town from Ylipää in Ängeslevä and represents the old peasant architecture style. It has been restored and is now a homestead house and party venue. The oldest part of the house, the smoke cabin, dates from the early eighteenth century.