Country Finland Municipality 1867 Local time Wednesday 10:57 AM | Charter 1688 Time zone EET (UTC+2) Region South Karelia | |
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Sub-region Lappeenranta sub-region Area rank 255th largest in Finland Weather 3°C, Wind SW at 16 km/h, 87% Humidity | ||
Lemi is a municipality of Finland.
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Map of 54710 Lemi, Finland
It is located in the province of Southern Finland and is part of the South Karelia region. The municipality has a population of 3,070 (31 March 2016) and covers an area of 217.87 square kilometres (84.12 sq mi) of which 44.71 km2 (17.26 sq mi) is water. The population density is 14.1 inhabitants per square kilometre (37/sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Finnish. The Finnish thrash metal band Stam1na is from Lemi.
Geography
The municipal center of Lemi is Juvola. The other villages are Ahtiala, Hakulila, Heikkilä, Huttula, Hyvärilä, Iitiä, Juuresaho (ent. Remunen), Juvola, Kaamanniemi, Kuukanniemi, Kapiala, Keskisenpää, Korpela, Kurkela, Kärmeniemi, Laakkola, Lavola, Merenlahti, Metsola, Mikkola, Mikonharju, Nisola, Nuppola, Olkkonen, Parkkola, Pöllölä, Ruohiala, Ruomi, Sairala, Sorvarila, Suomalainen, Suoniala, Suontakainen, Sutela, Taipale, Tevaniemi, Torvenniemi, Tuomelanpelto, kuuluu myös Iitiään, Uiminniemi, Urola, Vainikkala, Välikangas and Värtölä.
The schools are in Juvola and Kuukanniemi. There are about 750 inhabitants in Kuukanniemi and the villages it affects.
Inpedendence
Lemi has been founded in 1688 as an independent Evangelic-Lutheran parish. Due to the secularisation of the local governments according to the decree of 1865, the secular local government was separated from the clerical in 1867 as the municipality of Lemi.
War time
Some fighting took place in the cemetery of Lemi during the civil war in 1918. After the winter war as the military hardware had to be displaced from the territories to be given to the Soviet Union on the bases of the Moscow Armistice, naval artillery was brought to Lemi to create part of the Salpa Line. From the Käkisalmi region the Vahtiniemi battery was transferred to Kärmeniemi consisting two Canet 152/45-C naval guns. Later, on 11 July 1941, they were taken to Antamoinen to be tested on 22 July. Four days later they were transported by train from Lappeenranta again near Käkisalmi to Vahtiniemi to become operational 9 September 1941. After the Continuation War the 32nd heavy battery brought only one of the two Canet 152/45-C's it had as the other was to repaired. By the end of November, 1944 the 32nd heavy battery was dissolved and the guns were sent to Parola.
After the war there has not been naval guns in Lemi, but the remaining positions can be seen both in Kärmeniemi and Juvola.