Juankoski (Swedish: Strömsdal) is a former Finnish city in the
province of Northern Savonia. Juankoski joined the city of Kuopio at
the beginning of 2017. The city was home to 4,731 people and covered
an area of 586.26 square kilometers, of which 120.99 square
kilometers were water bodies. The population density was 10.17
inhabitants / km2. Juankoski's neighboring municipalities were
Juuka, Kaavi, Kuopio, Rautavaara and Tuusniemi.
One of
Juankoski's largest employers is Valmet Oy, a factory that
manufactures wet fabrics. Previously, Stromsdal Oyj's board mill was
also a significant employer, but its operations ended in bankruptcy
in 2008. Juankoski is home to Juankoski Entrepreneurs, a regional
association of Savo Entrepreneurs.
Juankoski was the second
smallest municipality in Finland after the Kaskinen population.
Despite the designation, Juankoski was a rural municipality
according to the statistical classification of municipalities due to
its low degree of agglomeration and the central population of less
than 4,000 inhabitants.
In August 2014, the Juankoski City
Council decided to join Kuopio at the beginning of 2017, and in June
2016, the Government approved the merger of the cities.
8400 BC Juankoski's Akonpohja settlement has been dated to 8610–8270
BC, of which the median is 8400 BC. The place has been inhabited at
least occasionally around 10,400 years ago. At the time of the dating,
it was the dating of the fourth oldest Stone Age settlement in Finland.
1746 Incorporation license in 1746 for Juankosken Ruukki
(Strömsdalsbruk), the Keeper of Kuopio. The applicants were Mantal
Commissioner Brynolf Brunou and the Vicar of Kuopio, Henrik Argillander.
Finland's first lake ore furnace was built along the Jukajoki river. At
first there were problems with the procurement of raw material and coal.
There were also problems in production. Owners changed frequently.
Parish-wise, Ruukki's population belonged to Nilsiä (Nilsiä was Kuopio's
chapel parish).
1810 Ruukinpatruuna Ekholm's assassination.
1818 Adolf Wilhelm Tigerstedt as a cast iron cartridge.
1826 New main
building: Patrunanmäki mansion is completed.
1851 Court counselor
Anastasia Ponomareva buys the iron. The family owns Ruukki until 1900.
Ruukki is purposefully developed by renovating and building production
facilities.
1856 The Saimaa canal was completed, when products could
be sold, e.g. To St. Petersburg.
1860 The first 12-apartment house
intended for iron workers was completed. More houses were built in the
following years.
1861 A school was founded in Ruukki, and a priest
was hired as a teacher and to lead religious services.
1863 A church
was built at the factory to serve as a school and a church. The
independently functioning Juantehta factory congregation started its
activities as part of the Nilsiä congregation.
1889 Construction of
coal furnaces began. By the end of the century, eight of them were
completed.
1898 Electric light for Juankoski.
1900 Taimi Oy, which
owned the Juan factory, went bankrupt.
The Karjalankoski railway was
completed.
1907 The factory parish of Juankoski was transferred
to the Muuruvesi parish.
1911 Iron production ended.
1913
Cardboard production began. Juantehta's main product was white wood
cardboard.
1915 Construction of coal furnaces began. By the end of
the century, eight of them were completed.
1921 The second power
plant, the current power plant and electricity museum, was completed.
1923 Juankoski separated from Muuruvedi as an independent parish.
1925 Juankoski municipality was founded.
1951 The construction of
single-family homes on the company's land "marka plots" began.
1958
Juankoski Drama Club was founded.
1960 Regulation of Vuotjärvi began.
1961 The Karjalankoski power plant was completed and the regulation of
the basin (known locally as Välievesi) began.
1968 Suomen
Metallikutomo Oy built a wire factory. Later Viira Oy, 1984 Tamfelt Oyj,
Metso Oyj, Valmet Oyj.
1970 The thorough development of the cardboard
factory began with the renewal of the cardboard machine.
1971
Juankoski-Muuruvesi-Säyneinen municipal association.
1988
Kymi-Kymmene sold the Juan factory to the established Stromsdal Oy and
the power plants to Savon Voima Oy.
1990 Juankoski Cultural
Historical Society was founded.
1995 The operational Juankoski
electric power plant was completed.
2002 Karjalankoski canal and
Juankoski canal were completed.
2003 Ruukinkoulu was completed for
the use of the middle school, high school, Kansalaiopisto and the
Conservatory. Elementary school students eat in a multipurpose space
called Agora.
2008 Stromsdal Corporation filed for bankruptcy on
November 27, 2008. The collapse of Lehman Brothers was followed by a
loan crisis in the US housing market, which grew into a global banking
crisis. This was followed by an international recession. Stromsdal Oyj's
customers were faced with a financial crisis, as a result of which the
factory was unable to take care of paying for investments and acquiring
raw materials.
2011 The factory was transferred to the ownership of
Premium Board Finland Oy (PBF).
2014 Premium Board applied for
corporate restructuring. The company was forgiven almost all of its
debts. The district court declared the trial documents secret for 50
years.
2017 Juankoski and Kuopio merged on January 1, 2017. Kuopio
became Finland's largest summer cottage municipality.
2020 Savon
Voima built fish ladders at Karjalankoski and Juankoski hydropower
plants.
2021 Juankoski Kulttuurihistoriskallinen Seura prepared to
move the museum to Juankoski's oldest building, completed in 1860, or
Kahvilapytink.
Akonvesi, Hipanlahti, Jouhteninen (Joutseninen), Muuruvesi (church
village), Säyneinen (church village), Vehkalahti, Västinniemi
Urban areas
See The agglomerations of Kuopio.
Fire and rescue
services
The units located at the Juankoski fire station on Kauppatie
are: JK11 fire truck, JK12 fire truck, JK13 tank truck, JK171 first
response and crew truck. In Juankoski, the Juankoski fire department's
boat JK-V1 is also on Niskakoski's beach. Juankoski has a semi-permanent
fire department.
First aid services in Juankoski are provided by
the Pohjois-Savo Hospital District, KYS Ensihoitokeskus, which also
provides the first aid service of the municipality of Kaavi.
The seats in the city council were distributed after the 2012
municipal elections as follows:
Center 12 places (−2)
Basic Finns
5 places (no change)
SDP 5 seats (no change)
Left Alliance 2 seats
(no change)
Christian Democrats 2 seats (+2)
Coalition 1 seat (no
change)
There were twin cities
Csepel, Hungary
Prääsä,
Russia
Viiratsi, Estonia
Well-known people from Juankoski or
people born in Juankoski
Eija Ahvo (b. 1951), musician/actress
Kaj
Chydenius (b. 1939), musician
Hannakaisa Heikkinen (b. 1974), Member
of Parliament
Rauno Kettunen (b. 1959), former Member of Parliament
Jaakko Kolmonen (1941–2016), TV chef
Immo Kuutsa (b. 1937), ski coach
Juice Leskinen (1950–2006), musician
Timi Lexikon (b. 1985),
rap/hip-hop artist (Muuruvesi)
Sanna Matinniemi (b. 1990), opera
singer
Anssi Neuvonen, musician
Veijo Pasanen (1930–1988), actor
(Muuruvesi)
Eero "Safka" Pekkonen (b. 1954 in Nilsiä, lived in
Juankoski), musician
Jori Sivonen (1948–2019), iskelmä composer
Hilja Väänänen (1896–1987), politician (Muuruvesi)
Juice's market
Nilsiä route
Pisa nature reserve
Pot area