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Niinisalon lamellikasarmi

Main barracks of the Niinisalo Garrison

Niinisalo is a village in the municipality of Kankaanpää in the region of Satakunta in Finland. It is known of the Niinisalo Garrison which is the base of Finnish Army unit Artillery Brigade.[1] Population of Niinisalo is 996 (2009).[2]

The Kankaanpää Museum is located in Niinisalo.[3] From 1977 to 1997 Niinisalo was the home of the Artillery Museum of Finland.[4] Niinisalo railway station was designed by architect Thure Hellström in 1933 but the Pori–Haapamäki railway was closed in the 1980s.[5]

Niinisalo Garrison[]

The Niinisalo Garrison was established in 1935. Since 1947 it has been the home of a field artillery unit, known from 1992 as Artillery Regiment. In the beginning of 2015 the regiment is merged with the Pori Brigade. The United Nations Training Centre was organized in Niinisalo in 1969.[6] It was a unit for training Finnish peacekeepers as well as international courses for United Nations military observers. Since 2001 the UN Training Centre is known as the Finnish Defence Forces International Centre FINCENT. It was transferred to Hyrylä in 2008.[7]

The functionalism style main barracks were designed by architect Kalle Lehtovuori and completed 1935. The officer's housing area is mainly composed of buildings originally drawn by the Norwegian architect Olav Selvaag in the post-World War II years. The garrison and it's residential areas are declared as Cultural environments of national significance by the Finnish National Board of Antiquities.[8]

Military units in the Niinisal Garrison[]

References[]

  1. Niinisalo Garrison Kankaanpää Municipality Official Homepage. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  2. Population by Postal Code Areas, 31 December 2009. p. 17. Statistics Finland. Retrieved 12 October 2014.
  3. Kankaanpää Museum Museot.fi. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  4. Tykistömuseo Museo Militaria (Finnish). Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  5. Rautatieasema elää Kankaanpää Municipality Official Homepage (Finnish). Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  6. Tykistöprikaatin historia The Finnish Defense Forces (Finnish). Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  7. Finnish Defence Forces International Centre FINCENT The Finnish Defence Forces. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  8. Niinisalon kasarmialue Finnish National Board of Antiquities (Finnish). Retrieved 13 October 2014.

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Coordinates: 61°50′21″N 22°28′02″E / 61.83912°N 22.467277°E / 61.83912; 22.467277

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