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Rautalampi (Finnish pronunciation:[ˈrɑu̯tɑˌlɑmpi]) is a municipality of Finland. It is located in the Northern Savoniaregion. The municipality has a population of 2,922 (31 October 2024)[2] and covers an area of 761.98 square kilometres (294.20 sq mi) of which 222.99 km2 (86.10 sq mi) is water.[1] The population density is 5.42 inhabitants per square kilometre (14.0/sq mi). The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
The name of the municipality means "iron pond", which is also why the coat of arms of the municipality features the symbol of iron.
History
The administrative division of Rautalampi. The thinner red borders represent the fourths.Illustration of Rautalampi in Finland framstäldt i teckningar edited by Zacharias Topelius and published 1845–1852.
The village was first mentioned in 1549, when it was a part of the parish (pitäjä) of Sysmä. Even though Rautalampi was a part of Tavastia, most of its settlers were Savonians who came to the area in the 16th century. The oldest documents (1552-1554) on Rautalampi only mention 22 Tavastian settlers in the area, while there were 57 Savonian settlers.[6] The parish (pitäjä) of Rautalampi was established in 1561. It was a large parish which included parts of 27 modern municipalities, most of them in the modern region of Central Finland.[7][8]
Administratively Rautalampi was divided into three divisions (despite their amount, called "fourths"):
Not too long after the establishment of the parish, most likely in 1563, the divisions were renamed: Keitele became Kymi, Konnevesi became Rautalampi and Saraavesi became Pernasalo. The Kymi fourth was later renamed to Kivijärvi in 1617. The territories of the fourths did not change until the fourths were abolished entirely in 1684.[9]
The first ecclesiastical division of the Rautalampi parish happened when Laukaa became separate in 1628, while the last division was the separation of Konnevesi in 1919 (administratively slightly later in 1922).[7]
The Finnish rock band Grand Merlin, originally from Rautalampi, made a Finnish-language cover version of the 1974 Lynyrd Skynyrd single "Sweet Home Alabama" in 1983. The song under the name "Rautalampi" was written by the band's bassist Hannu Niskanen.[11]
Food
In the 1980s, the traditional dish of Rautalampi was a "cobbler's roast" (Suutarin paisti) made of browned pork and vendace.[12]
^Rönkkö, Janne (2023). "Puistoblues 1996 avasi ovet kaikkiaan seitsemälle Suomen-keikalle". Lynyrd Skynyrd: Etelän vapaat linnut (in Finnish). Docendo. p. 185. ISBN978-952-382-589-5.
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