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  Hietaniemi cemetery - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The cemetery includes a large military cemetery section for soldiers from the capital fallen in the wars against the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany: in the Winter War (1939–1940), the Continuation War (1941–1944) and the Lapland War (1944–1945) In the centre of the military cemetery are the tombs of unknown soldier and marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim.
Other notable sections of the cemetery are the Jewish and Russian orthodox cemeteries, the cemetery of the Finnish Guard, the Artist's Hill and the Stateman's Grove.
The cemetery is a popular tourist attraction, especially amongst Finns visiting the graves of relatives fallen in wars or the graves of the many famous Finns buried there.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Hietaniemi_Cemetery   (334 words)

  
 Hietaniemi Cemetery, Helsinki
Down the coast from Helsinki's Sibelius Memorial are the Rowing Stadium and the beautiful sandy beach of Hietaniemi.
Beyond this lies Hietaniemi cemetery (a military cemetery as well as a civil one), on the highest point of which is a cross commemorating the fallen.
Near the entrance are the graves of the politicians Risto Ryti, Väinö Tanner, T. Kivimäki and E. Linkomies, who - as a condition of the 1944 armistice - were tried by a Finnish court for their political activities during the war and were given prison sentences.
www.planetware.com /helsinki/hietaniemi-cemetery-sf-udn-hie.htm   (130 words)

  
 Hietaniemi cemetery
It includes a large military cemetery section for soldiers from the capital fallen in the wars against the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany.
Nightly parties, flirting, petting, and more, are recurrent concerns in letters to the editor allarmed by alleged dishonourable conduct at the gravestones.
The cemetery is a popular tourist attraction, especially amongst Finns visiting the graves of relatives fallen in the Winter War (1939–1940), the Continuation War (1941–1944) and the Lapland War (1944–1945) — or the graves of the many famous Finns buried there.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/h/hi/hietaniemi_cemetery.html   (179 words)

  
 Henrik Meinander: City of the dead   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In the Lutheran cemetery we find a single gravestone with the inscription ‘The painter P.L. with four children’, which bears witness to the high rate of infant mortality and the fact that it could be too expensive to have all the dead infants’ names engraved on the stone.
Near the grave-monument of the writer Zacharias Topelius (1818–1898), with a guardian angel by the sculptor Walter Runeberg, the son of the national poet J.L. Runeberg – there is a small gravestone in memory of two of Topelius’s children, who died at a tender age.
As already mentioned, Hietaniemi includes two Jewish cemeteries with a funeral chapel of their own, something that is made necessary by the fact that according to holy scripture the dead must be buried within twenty-four hours.
dbgw.finlit.fi /fili/bff/402/meinander.htm   (1153 words)

  
 Hietaniemi cemetery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An aerial photograph of the area in the cemetery where soldiers killed in the Second World War are buried
Nightly parties, flirting, petting, and more, are recurrent concerns in letters to the editor alarmed by alleged dishonourable conduct at the gravestones.
Because of its obvious association with death, the cemetery sometimes also attracts fans of goth or heavy metal culture.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hietaniemi_cemetery   (272 words)

  
 Helsingin Sanomat - International Edition - Metro
Workers at Helsinki's Hietaniemi Cemetery suspected of grave robberies
The misconduct suspicions are limited to the Hietaniemi Cemetery, and only to graves that have been opened for re-use.
Hietaniemi Cemetery is the only coffin graveyard in Helsinki where shovels rather than a machine are still often used when digging graves.
www.hs.fi /english/article/Workers+at+Helsinkis+Hietaniemi+Cemetery+suspected+of+grave+robberies/1135219522545   (570 words)

  
 City Guide - Helsinki
The cemetery includes a large military cemetery section for soldiers fallen in wars.
Other notable sections are the Jewish and Russian Orthodox cemeteries, the cemetery of Finnish guard and the Artist’s Hill.
Hietaniemi means sand spit and the cemetery is partly placed on Hietaniemi Beach.
www.twilight-mag.net /cityguide-helsinki-sightseeing.htm   (1948 words)

  
 Hietaniemi Cemetery | Helsinki | Travel Story and Pictures from Finland
While walking in Hietaniemi cemetery, probably the largest of the country, those images came back to me, and again, I heard the wind blowing through the treetops.
I did not have a clear plan, I did not have a map of the cemetery, and I was anyway not very aware of the importance of the names I had seen announced as famous Finns.
While not as overwhelmingly decorated as for instance cemeteries in Southern Europe, Hietaniemi Cemetery is definitely charming as well.
www.traveladventures.org /continents/europe/hietaniemi-cemetery.shtml   (333 words)

  
 Funeral Cemetery   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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Hietaniemi cemetery - The Hietaniemi cemetery is located in the Töölö district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
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 Cemetery Visions
This ring is for sites showing the beauty and artwork found on cemetery gravestones and monuments in all nations.
Cemetery photo galleries(now over 17 different cemeteries archived in the Vault), macabre short stories,famous last words, phantasmogoria, links and Bookstore.
Found in Among the Stones are cemetery photos from the United States, including Ohio, Kentucky, Illinois, Tennesse, Virginia, Georgia, New York, and Louisianna.
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 Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki - photos of monuments & memorials in Helsinki on Worldisround
This huge and beautiful cemetery was first established in 1829, but has been expanded several times since then.
The cemetery has a long history but it is well kept and taken care off, at least it is clean.
There's an older cemetery in Penang, the environment is totally opposite.
www.worldisround.com /articles/64420/index.html   (172 words)

  
 Helsinki:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The unusual Hietaniemi Cemetery is within walking distance of the city centre, right next to a beach.
It is divided into four parts: a Lutheran cemetery, an Orthodox one, a Jewish and an Islamic one.
The magnificent older part is the final resting place of a number of famous people, including C.L. Engel, the man who designed a large part of the city, and world-renowned architect Alvar Aalto.
www.grandeuropeantours.com /detail.html?detailID=44894   (142 words)

  
 Excite - Search: Orjatsalo Aarne
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The Hietaniemi cemetery is located in the Töölö; district of Helsinki, the capital of Finland.
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 Cemetery Crematories Funeral Services   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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 Churches in Helsinki
The appearance of the bell-tower suggests the style of Italian bell-towers.
It's the most famous cemetery chapel in Helsinki.
Many famous persons are buried there, for example the famous architect Carl Engel, Aurora Karamzin who was the owner of Traskanda Manor, and the Marshal of Finland, C.G. Mannerheim.
www.muuka.com /finnishpumpkin/churches/helsinki/church_helsinki.html   (541 words)

  
 HS Home 30.1.2001 - Finns pay tribute to Mannerheim on 50th anniversary of Marski's death
After a short spell as President, in which he was hampered by attempts to include his name in the list of war criminals to be tried, he spent the last years of his life in retirement mostly in Switzerland, where he died at the age of 83.
Mannerheim was given a state funeral and was buried in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki, his grave surrounded by those of many of the soldiers who served under him.
began at 12 noon in Hietaniemi Cemetery as a tight ring of citizens, most of them elderly, gathered around the monument to those who died defending the country and the grave of Mannerheim himself.
www2.hs.fi /english/archive/news.asp?id=20010130IE6   (984 words)

  
 Picture of Hietaniemi Cemetery: some of the graves of this immense cemetery | Travel Photography | Helsinki | Finland | ...
This picture shows Hietaniemi Cemetery: some of the graves of this immense cemetery.
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Last resting place of famous Finns and lots of other people, Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki provides a quiet place in a quiet capital city.
pictures.traveladventures.org /images/hietaniemi-cemetery01   (294 words)

  
 Mkapa kicks off Finland visit
He is due to hold talks with Finnish President Tarja Halonen today before attending a state banquet to be hosted in his honour at the presidential palace in Helsinki.
President Mkapa is also due to meet Finnish Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen, lay a wreath at Helsinki’s Hietaniemi Cemetery and visit the town of Joensuu.
Presidents Mkapa and Halonen jointly led a commission to consider the social dimension of globalisation.
www.ippmedia.com /ipp/guardian/2005/09/07/48952.html   (195 words)

  
 3D Photo in Helsinki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Hietaniemi Cemetery is one of the main cemeteries in Helsinki, and it is quite lavish.
It is a very pleasant park, and there are all sorts of decorated gravestones in this high-density final resting place.
One interesting note- it seemed a vast majority of the names on the tombstones were Swedish in origin, which I assume must hark back to the Swedish colonization, and presumably, a much higher Swedish ancestry in Helsinki than elsewhere.
www.3dphoto.net /stereo/world/europe/finland/helsinki2/cemetery2.html   (74 words)

  
 Miscellaneous Tips - Helsinki Travel Guide - VirtualTourist.com
Aalto died in Helsinki in 1976 and was buried at Hietaniemi Cemetery.
Hietaniemi Cemetary (Hietaniemen Hautausmaa) is the biggest graveyard in Helsinki and it also seems to be one of the oldest.
It is located at the sea, there is sandy beach right next to the cemetery.
www.virtualtourist.com /travel/Europe/Finland/Etelae_Suomi/Helsinki-242105/Off_the_Beaten_Path-Helsinki-MISC-R-15.html   (621 words)

  
 C.G.E.Mannerheim, the Marshal of Finland — Virtual Finland
The final passage from the memoirs of Marshal C.G.E. Mannerheim, published in 1950.
The monument in the military burial ground of Hietaniemi cemetery was sculpted by Väinö Aaltonen and unveiled in 1953.
Mannerheim's home in the Kaivopuisto district of Helsinki (address: Kalliolinnantie 14) has, since 1951, been a museum.
virtual.finland.fi /finfo/english/mannerheim.html   (1271 words)

  
 West of Mannerheimintie, Finland. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
The shady and pleasant park is rudely cut by a main road called Mechelininkatu.
Following this back towards the city centre brings you first to the small Islamic and Jewish cemeteries, and then to the expanse of tombs comprising Hietaniemi Cemetery (usually open until 10pm).
It's to the cemetery that local schoolkids head when skipping off lessons during warm weather, not for a smoke behind the gravestones but to reach the beaches that line the bay just beyond its western walls.
www.hostelbookers.com /guides/finland/west_of_mannerheimintie   (265 words)

  
 President of Germany to visit Finland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
After the reception ceremonies and official discussions, President of the Republic of Finland Tarja Halonen will give a luncheon at the Presidential Palace.
President Köhler will also meet Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and Speaker of the Parliament Paavo Lipponen, and lay a wreath at the war memorial in Hietaniemi Cemetery.
After the official visit President Köhler will stay in Finland to take part in an informal meeting of six heads of state from 23 to 24 April 2005.
www.tpk.fi /netcomm/news/ShowArticle.asp?intNWSAID=34903&intSubArtID=15301&intToPrint=1&LAN=EN   (136 words)

  
 Epilogi   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
The Finnish nation honours the memory of its great man. Wreaths are put down on the grave of Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland, in the Hietaniemi cemetery in connection with state visits and the festive occasions of many associations.
The equestrian statue of Mannerheim has a central place in Helsinki.
It is a matter of honour for the Finnish people to cherish the memory of Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim, Marshal of Finland.
www.marskinmaja.net /english/Epilogi.htm   (167 words)

  
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Old chapel (1873) at Hietaniemi cemetery (Helsinki, Finland).
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 Photo browser - January 2006 - Under the Open Sky - taivasalla.net
Helsinki: An illuminated power line pylon on Ourit island near Hietaniemi beach.
View over Lapinlahti bay towards Lapinlahti bridge and Lauttasaari district from Hietaniemi cemetery.
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taivasalla.net /2006/01/060105_1622_photos_eng.html   (200 words)

  
 Foto de Cementerio Hietaniemi, Finlandia, Europa | Fotografía de viajes | Cementerio Hietaniemi | Finlandia | ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
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One of the principal streets of Hietaniemi Cemetery
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 The President of Finland: President of the Republic of Korea on state visit in Finland
President of the Republic of Finland Tarja Halonen received President Roh Moo-hyun in the Presidential Palace on Thursday 7 September.
President Roh Moo-hyun also met Prime Minister Matti Vanhanen and laid a wreath on the heroes’ graves in Hietaniemi Cemetery.
The program will also include a conference of the Korea-Finland Economic Council at the Finlandia Hall.
www.presidentti.fi /netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=54712&LAN=EN&intSubArtID=22739   (158 words)

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