FISKARS 1649 – 360 years of Finnish industrial history

Fiskars 1649
Fiskars 1649
The Wärdshuset, the inn, built in 1836, in front of which the rails of the narrow-gauge track can still be seen. The line was last
used in 1952.
The Fiskars cutlery workshop in the 1860s. This building was later destroyed by fire, and the brick building which replaced it
was built in 1888.
Both of Fiskars’ streets were preserved in
accordance with Qvist’s plan until J. J. Julin’s time.
He did a great deal of building work, extending the
works and having dilapidated buildings renovated.
In 1826-1852 the houses in the lower street were
pulled down and replaced by stables, a school, a
carriage house, a bailiff’s house and two tenements
on the west side of the street. The designers
included some of the most prominent architects
of the era: C.L. Engel, J.E. Wiik, A. Peel and A.F.
Granstedt. The street was thus given an Empire
look, which has remained nearly untouched up to
the present day.
Julin had all the dwellings along Peltorivi
repaired or rebuilt, often using and transporting
to Fiskars some of the farm buildings acquired by
the company. Completely new buildings were also
erected, and by the end of 1842 Fiskars’ own sawmill
supplied the necessary timber and the roof tiles were
made by Fiskars’ brickworks. The cowsheds built
on the southern side of the road were demolished
and Julin built three new common cowsheds further
away from the housing. These measures eliminated
the closed streetscape of the original streets.
Julin had what is today a historically valuable
foundry and machine workshop built by the upper
The lower works in the 1920’s. Apart from a couple of warehouses, the buildings still stand. The light building in the middle, a
former copper smith’s workshop with later extensions, is now used for exhibitions.
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