Vicarage of Liminka

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In the old days the emotional and public life was centered in the county´s vicarage. Whenever there came high-ranked guests to the county they lived in the vicarage. Representation tasks like this aquired size and look from the vicarage. The vicarage with its buildings was usually the county´s biggest house also in Liminka, although here it didn´t make much difference from the prosperous peasant houses. A more important difference between those was the civilized atmosphere of the vicarage

Vicarage of Liminka today

In the year 1732 the main building of the vicarage had eight rooms with heating and a hallway, and six of the rooms were bedrooms. Each one had a tiled stove in one corner, from four to six windows, a guest room with six windows, fireplace and a kitchen with two windows. From the kitchen was a path to a separate building, which was a cowhouse. In addition, the building had a so called secret room. Also a sauna, a horse house, three cowhouses and a watermill were included in the vicarage yard.

There is a tiled stove in almost every room. In the 18th century these were used as a heating system

In the 1840´s the old vicarage was in such a bad shape that people could not live there any more. After the cropfailures of the 1830´s when the economic situation of the farmers was better again a new vicarage was planned. Building the vicarage came true in 1840´s as well as the completion of the vicarage that is still being used. The new vicarage was built with the help of all the parishioners who were announced what they were to do during the following week by the list written by the chief. Crofters were doing long hours at the construction, other people's duties included using their horses to get transport supplies.

The Vicarage's yard