{"id":6718,"date":"2020-06-03T09:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T09:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&p=6718"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:14:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:14:00","slug":"old-houses-in-vadso-represents-a-multi-ethic-rich-cultural-history","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/old-houses-in-vadso-represents-a-multi-ethic-rich-cultural-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Old houses in Vads\u00f8 represents a multi-ethic, rich cultural history"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t
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\n\t\t\t\tVirtually everything in Finnmark was destroyed during the Second World War. However, there are a number of old buildings in Vads\u00f8 and Varanger, which reveal the multi-ethnic origins of the region.\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n

‘Kven’ is the traditional name given to people of Finnish decent in northern Norway. There has long been contact across northern Scandinavia, but the present-day Kven population descends from several waves of settlement and immigration that took place in the 17 and 1800s. The first wave was to Troms and West Finnmark, although the largest wave of immigration was to East Finnmark and the Vads\u00f8 area in particular, which became known as the capital of the Kven people. The Kven culture itself is stronger in West Finnmark and Troms, but there are several buildings and material remnants remaining in the east. However, the Kven people first arrived in East Finnmark in the 1800s as a result of the rich fishing available in the Varangerfjord. Immigration increased during the 1860s on account of the famine in Finland, which was Western Europe’s largest famine to occur in peacetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuomainen farm has stood here since 1851<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In Ytrebyen, also known as Ytre Kvenby, stands a red-painted farm from the 1800s called Tuomaineng\u00e5rden, or the Tuomainen farm. This was built in 1851 by Johan Petter Vinikka, a Finnish-speaking immigrant from Tornedalen in the far north of Sweden. This remained in use as a residence until the 1980s, and its fittings reflect the many small changes in its use and details from the entire period. In 1918, the farm was purchased by a couple with the surname Tuomainen, from whom the name of the farm originates.<\/p>\n\n\n

\n\t\t\t\tPractical information about the old houses in Vads\u00f8\n\t\t\t<\/h3>
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