Hyvinkää

**Hyvinkää** (; ) is a toun an municipality o Finland. It is locatit in Uusimaa region, approximately  north o the caipital Helsinki. The toun wis chairtered in 1960. The population o Hyvinkää is  ().

Heich-gates an rail connections mak it ane o the suburban commuter centres o Greater Helsinki. The ceety plannin haes haed an emphasis on recreational facilities, acknowledgin the fact that the modest ceety centre canna compete wi the shops an boutiques o the caipital.

Some o the mair well-kent biggins in Hyvinkää are, amang ithers, the Kirk (1961, Aarno Ruusuvuori) o Hyvinkää an the manor hoose o Kytäjä. The Finnish Railway Museum is locatit in Hyvinkää.

Hyvinkää is an aw hame tae Konecranes, which specializes in the manufactur an service o cranes an KONE Elevators, the warld's third-lairgest elevator company who manufactur, instaw an service elevators an escalators.

The wirkshop o Ruokangas Guitars, the leadin Finnish electric guitar maker, is locatit at Wanha Villatehdas, Hyvinkää.

Hyvinkää is kent amang Scandinavie gowf enthusiasts due tae Kytäjä gowf, locatit at the kintraside o Hyvinkää. It affers twa courses designed bi Tom McBroom: Sooth East Course opened in the August 2003, an North Wast Course in August 2004.

## History

In the 16t century thare wis a tavern in the aurie nou kent as Hyvinkäänkylä, which lees approximately hauf-wey atween Helsinki an Hämeenlinna. The first tax catalogues an aw merked the existence o some hooses in the aurie aroond the same time.

Hyvinkää veelage gradually grew in the latter hauf o the 19t century, tho it wis the construction o the railway netwirk throu Finland, beginnin in 1861, that merked the stairtin pynt for the toun's rapid growthe.

The construction o Finland's first stretch o railwey, the Helsinki–Hämeenlinna line, determined the location o the present ceety centre an the railway station o Hyvinkää is ane o the few oreeginal stations still in uise. Frae Hyvinkää the railway an aw branches aff tae the port o Hanko. The Hanko–Hyvinkää Railroad wis the first private railwey in Finland, foondit in 1872, an acquired bi the Finnish State RR Co. in 1875. In the early 1900s the station veelage in Hyvinkää wis an intermediate stoppin pynt for mony emigrants leavin bi ship frae Hanko for a new life in North Americae.

The air quality o Hyvinkää wis considered healthy due tae dense pine forests, an in the 1880s a group o pheesicians frae Helsinki opened a sanatorium for patients seekin rest an recuperation.

Industrialization brocht a oo factory tae Hyvinkää in 1892 – the Donner family's *Hyvinge Yllespinneri*. The factory ceased operation in the 1990s, but the reid-brick halls still remain. The biggin haes foond several new uises, includin an exhibition centre an a theater.

Hyvinkää airfield servit as the kintra's main airport for a short time efter the seicont Warld War while the airport at Malmi, Helsinki in Helsinki wis unner the control o the Alleed Powers. Thare is nou a motorsports centre near the airfield.

## Festivals

In the Simmer, thare is an annual beer festival which attracts rock baunds frae Scandinavie an aboot 10,000 visitors.

## Internaitional relations

### Twin touns — Sister ceeties
Hyvinkää is twinned wi:

* Eigersund, Norawa
* Kecskemét, Hungary
* Korsør, Denmark
* Kostroma, Roushie
* Motala, Swaden
* Hersfeld-Rotenburg destrict, Germany

## References

## Freemit airtins

*Toun o Hyvinkää – Offeecial wabsteid
*Finnish Railway Museum 
*Steam Locomotives in Finland Including the Finnish Railway Museum
*Hyrinet – Hyvinkää–Riihimäki aurie portal 
*Picturs frae Hyvinkää