Keljo is a district of Jyväskylä , in Central Finland , and a former village of Jyväskylän maalaiskunta . The distance to central Jyväskylä is about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi).
14-450: Keljo forms the Keljo ward together with Keljonkangas , Sääksvuori [ fi ] and Etelä-Keljo [ fi ] . The district borders Kukkumäki [ fi ] and Mattilanpelto [ fi ] in the north, Ristonmaa [ fi ] and Ristikivi in the east, Keljonkangas in the south, Etelä-Keljo in the southwest and Keltinmäki in the west. Keljo
28-488: A Tourism and Environment award presented by the European Union Commission in 1995. Päijänne National Park ( Finnish : Päijänteen kansallispuisto ) is a national park in the southern parts of Lake Päijänne. It consists of 50 unbuilt islands and parts of inhabited islands. The national park has been established in 1993 and has an area of 14 square kilometres (5.4 sq mi). Leivonmäki National Park
42-619: Is Virmailansaari. The word saari means an island. Salo once meant a great island, nowadays it means a great forest area. The largest city on the shores of Päijänne is Jyväskylä in the North. The city of Lahti is connected to Päijänne through Lake Vesijärvi and Vääksy canal. An underground aqueduct , Päijänne Water Tunnel , connects the lake to Vantaa , providing the Greater Helsinki area with water. The deepest point in any lake in Finland
56-499: Is in Päijänne (95.3 m or 313 ft). The name of Lake Päijänne comes possibly from a Pre-Finno-Ugric substrate language. Päijänne is a famous boating , canoeing and sailing attraction. The 119 kilometres (74 mi) long lake is connected by canals to Lake Keitele , Lake Vesijärvi and to Lake Ruotsalainen. Length of the open waterway for ships is 380 kilometres (240 mi). Construction of canals connecting Päijänne to
70-457: Is subdivided into the areas of Keljon keskus, Valkola, Hauskala and Tarhamäki (Tarhamäentie). The larger Keljo ward also borders the municipality of Muurame . The modern district of Keljo (Etu-Keljo/Tarhamäki) was officially part of the register village of Jyväskylä and not Keljo proper, however the area has unofficially been seen as a part of Keljo at least since the establishment of the town of Jyväskylä. The register village of Keljo consisted of
84-526: The Baltic Sea has been discussed for decades. Nevertheless, the plan is still to be materialized. Until the 1940s Lake Päijänne was a major transportation channel in the Central Finland . Numerous ships transported passengers and freight between the villages and cities on the shores of Päijänne. Nowadays, passenger transportation is rather a tourist attraction on the lakelands than the fastest way connecting
98-578: The 1850s, was separated administratively from Laukaa in 1868 as Jyväskylän maalaiskunta . The northernmost parts of Keljo were transferred to the town of Jyväskylä in 1941 and the rest of Keljo was added to the growing town in 1965. Central Keljo later expanded into a suburban and commercial area, with the old rural Keljo mainly being visible in the former village's outskirts such as Hanhiperä and Taka-Keljo [ fi ] . The register village of Keljo still officially existed within Jyväskylän mlk until
112-587: The cities and villages. One of the most popular passenger transportation routes in summertime is between the cities of Lahti and Jyväskylä . There are 16,000 cottages on the shores of Päijänne. Most of the cottages are private owned and have a separate sauna cottage. In addition to cottage tourism Päijänne attracts fishing, sailing, canoeing, rowing, paddling, trekking, ice-skating, snow mobile and nature tourists. The National Parks of Päijänne and Leivonmäki alone has tens of thousands of visitors every year. The Clear and Drinkable Lake Päijänne South Association won
126-727: The districts in the official order. [REDACTED] Media related to Districts of Jyväskylä at Wikimedia Commons Lake P%C3%A4ij%C3%A4nne Lake Päijänne ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈpæi̯jænːe] ) is the second largest lake in Finland (1,080 km (266,874 acres)). The lake drains into the Gulf of Finland via the Kymi River . The major islands are from north to south Vuoritsalo , Muuratsalo , Onkisalo , Judinsalo , Edessalo , Taivassalo , Haukkasalo , Vehkasalo , Mustassalo , Virmailansaari and Salonsaari . The largest island
140-401: The hypermarket, being expanded to its current size in 2010. Districts of Jyv%C3%A4skyl%C3%A4 The city of Jyväskylä , Finland is divided into 14 wards ( Finnish : suuralueet , Swedish : storområden ), which are further divided into 89 districts ( Finnish : kaupunginosat ). This is a list of the 14 wards of Jyväskylä by population as of June 2012 This is a list of
154-592: The modern districts of Keljonkangas, Ristikivi (Sippulanniemi), Etelä-Keljo, Sääksvuori, Taka-Keljo and Hanhiperä , as well as the Perälä area in modern Vesanka and the Pohjanlahti suburb in northwestern Nenäinniemi [ fi ] . Keljo is located near the Päijänne , Finland's second largest lake. Other nearby lakes include Jyväsjärvi and Myllyjärvi. The Finnish national road 9 passes through Keljo and connects to
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#1732854521084168-469: The municipality's dissolution in 2009, though the register village only included tiny parts of the municipality: Perälä [ fi ] south of Vesanka and the islands of Iso-Poro and Vähä-Poro in the Päijänne . Keljonkeskus is one of Jyväskylä's major commercial areas. It contains the Keljon kauppakeskus, a mall with a K-Citymarket hypermarket and 22 other stores. The mall was originally built as only
182-515: The road 6019 (called Keuruuntie) in nearby Ristonmaa. Keljo was first mentioned in 1545 as Kehdio . Its name may be derived from the village of Keljo in Sahalahti or the Tavastian word kelja meaning "group". The area was originally hunting grounds of the people of Sääksmäki , due to which Keljo was administratively a part of Sääksmäki, despite the distance to Sääksmäki proper. Ecclesiastically Keljo
196-479: Was either a part of Jämsä or Rautalampi . After the Laukaa parish was separated from Rautalampi, Keljo was transferred to it by 1646 along with Jyväskylä and other nearby villages. Jyväskylä was granted chapel rights in 1676, with the chapel community also including Keljo, Palokka , Haapaniemi , Puuppola , Vesanka , Vehniä [ fi ] , Tikkamannila and Nyrölä . The Jyväskylä parish, established in
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