Enonkoski
Sign in to saveEnonkoski () is a municipality of Finland. It is encircled by the city of Savonlinna in the South Savo region. It is the smallest municipality in South Savo in terms of population.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Enonkoski
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Enonkosken kirkko 1 AB.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Enonkoski Church (Magnus Schjerfbeck, 1886)
- Settlement.image_shield
- Enonkoski.vaakuna.svg
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- Enonkoski sijainti Suomi.svg
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- Location of Enonkoski in Finland
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- South Savo
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Sub-region
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Savonlinna
- Settlement.leader_title
- Municipal manager
- Settlement.leader_name
- Kari Kuuramaa
- Settlement.established_title
- Charter
- Settlement.established_date
- 1882
- Settlement.timezone
- EET
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +02:00
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Enonkoski () is a municipality of Finland. It is encircled by the city of Savonlinna in the South Savo region. It is the smallest municipality in South Savo in terms of population.
==History== Enonkoski was founded in 1882. Before that it was part of Kerimäki and Heinävesi. The major reason for the foundation of independent parish of Enonkoski happened in 1858. Enonkoski did not have its own church, and on Sundays people had to row to the church to Kerimäki, a parish Enonkoski was part of that time. In 1858 there was a church boat accident in the lake Ylä-Enonvesi, which led to the death of eight people. After that, a Russian businessman and a leader of an Enonkoski glass factory and a sawmill decided to build a church in Enonkoski. He is alleged to have said: "the people in Enonkoski do not anymore have to drown on their trips to the church". The wooden church was built in the next year but it was destroyed in a fire caused by lightning in 1884. A new church made of wood, which is still in use, was built in 1886.