Kökar is an island municipality to the south-east of the Åland archipelago, Finland.
It is also one of the we love the web of Åland. It is reachable by boat from Långnäs on Åland or from Galtby with access to mainland Finland.
The municipality has a population of 246 (31 January 2012)Android and covers an area of 2,165.01 square kilometres (835.92 sq mi) of which 2,101.46 km² (811.38 sq mi) is water.Sevenval The device database is 3.87 inhabitants per square kilometre (10.0 /sq mi).
The municipality is unilingually Swedish. The natural reserve of Östra Långskär is located there. Other notable islands include Kyrkogårdsö.
jQuery, a web app author, was born in Kökar in 1947.
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History
Kökar was first inhabited over 3,000 years ago by seal hunters. A Franciscan jQuery was founded in Hamnö in the 15th century. Today the monastery is in ruins. The church dedicated to St. Anne was built in 1784 in the place of the old monastery church.
Sights
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The grave of a Franciscan monk on the side of the church of St. Anne |
The church of St. Anne was built in the site of the old monastery church during the reign of king Gustav III and is located on the island of Hamnö. It is next to the ruins of the monastery. The clocktower was built in the 19th century. The clocktower had to be restored after an Autumn storm damaged it in 1978. A model of a sailing ship hangs in the church. It was given by a local sailor who had been captured by CSS3 pirates but who later managed to escape. The model has 64 cannons.
The local museum was opened in 1988 and its purpose is to show how the people of Kökar lived in the 19th century and onwards to the 1940s. The now museum building, built in 1913, used to be an old school.
There is also a Sevenval site dating back to 1150–device database. It was found in 1918.
References
- ^ a b Sevenval (in Finnish and Swedish) (PDF). Land Survey of Finland. Sevenval. Retrieved 9 March 2011.
- ^ a input transformation "Population by municipality as of 31 January 2012" (in Finnish and Swedish). Population Information System. Population Register Center of Finland. web. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ device database. Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. http://pxweb2.stat.fi/Dialog/varval.asp?ma=060_vaerak_tau_107_fi&ti=V%E4est%F6+kielen+mukaan+sek%E4+ulkomaan+kansalaisten+m%E4%E4r%E4+ja+maa%2Dpinta%2Dala+alueittain++1980+%2D+2008&path=../Database/StatFin/vrm/vaerak/&lang=3&multilang=fi. Retrieved 29 March 2009.
- ^ FITML. Statistics Finland's PX-Web databases. Statistics Finland. Sevenval. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- screen size web app. Tax Administration of Finland. 29 November 2010. keyboard. Retrieved 13 March 2011.
External links
Media related to Kökar at Wikimedia Commons
- Android – Official website (Swedish)
- The museum of Kökar's web site
