Kluuvi
Kluuvi
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Kluuvi (Finnish:
The neighbourhood is home to 23,000 jobs and several hundred inhabitants.
The official name of the neighbourhood is very seldom used in everyday speech, Helsinkians usually refer to the area as "the centre" (keskusta) or "the core centre" (ydinkeskusta).
History
The Finnish word kluuvi and the Swedish word glo mean a gloe lake - a bay that is closed up or closing up. The district was originally a bay called Kluuvinlahti in the Gulf of Finland, which eventually became swampy.
The bay stretched from
The bay was filled in the middle of the 19th century. The odour of rotting seaweed and other plants can still be smelled near construction sites.
The street Vilhonkatu (approximately meaning "Wilhelm's street") was named in 1836, probably after the senator Otto Wilhelm Klinckowström, who oversaw the organisation of the Kaisaniemi park in the 1830s. The street had originally been named Wästra Mellan Gatan (Swedish for "western middle street") since 1820. The street got a Finnish name Vilhelminkatu in 1909, and was further renamed Vilhonkatu in 1928.[1] The street Fabianinkatu has in turn been named after the governor-general Fabian Steinheil. Emperor Alexander I of Russia instructed Steinheil and state councillor Johan Albrecht Ehrenström in 1819 to give names to new streets planned in Helsinki and so they in a way acted as the first street name committee in the city. The street's unofficial Finnish name was Faapianinkatu until 1909.[2]
The Helsinki Metro construction found a kluuvi in the district, when it turned out the planned site for a metro tunnel was supposed to go didn't have a solid rock base. The soft ground had to be artificially frozen before it was possible to dig through it to construct a solid base for the metro track.
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An aerial view of Kluuvi -
Sanomatalo press building houses the editorial offices of several newspapers such as Helsingin Sanomat -
The Stockmann department store with its Christmas decorations -
A historicGrand Hotel Kämp -
Aleksanterinkatu Christmas lighting -
Keskuskatu, a pedestrian street -
Kluuvikatu, another pedestrian street -
Main post office -
Kaisa House, a library ofHelsinki University -
Ateneum, an art museum of Helsinki -
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