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Jumalniemi sawmill, Kotka
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Godis in 1930's

Kotka was a self-acknowledged sawmill capitol of Finland when sawing was the major form of industry in the country. At best times, there were 9 functional sawmills in this harbour city at the same time. Apart from one of them, all have been closd and mostly demolished since. Jumalniemi is an exception, the area is abandoned and there are still some remains of the sawmill which was shutdown ages ago, in 1930's. There's understandably not much left, but something anyway.

Name of the place is not usual. If it's to be believed, this is holy land, cape of gods.

 

This house on the shore is the only existing building. It's survived well, considering everything else has vanished totally, there are only some foundation-pieces here and there.
The well is another survivor.
The doors are inviting..
Inside the brick house it's damn sooty.
Smartest thinkers could suppose these furnaces have something to do with the soot. What this building was used for precisely, remains unknown.
At the end of the cape and the old road there's more relics.
Looks seriously like it's somehow connected to steam power.
This is a pulp factory at the opposite shore filmed from Jumalniemi's rotting dock. You can see it also in the old picture on top of the page, it was quite new then.

REFERENCES:

  1. Satakunta Sahaa Suomessa, Timo Kantonen, Museovirasto, 1996