Qualla: Uusikaupunki https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki en-us © 2026 Bendyline Thu, 20 Aug 2026 16:39:14 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Uusikaupunki https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki Uusikaupunki: Introduction https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki/ Uusikaupunki means "new town," and it has not been one since 19 April 1617, when Gustav II Adolf granted it commercial rights and a harbour and pointed it at the sea. Under its Swedish name, Nystad, it turns up in histories that have nothing to do with Finland: in 1721 the Great Northern War between Sweden and Russia was ended by a treaty signed here, and every account of eighteenth-century Europe files it under the name of this small harbour town on the Bothnian coast. Fourteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-three people live here now. The old streets are wooden, low and unnervingly wide, and the reason for that width is a fire.

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/1/uusikaupunki-wk/u6z1-uusikaupunki-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Uusikaupunki: Where a War Was Signed Away https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki/ The Great Northern War had run for twenty-one years by 1721, and it had emptied Sweden of men and money. The peace that ended it was negotiated and signed in Uusikaupunki, and it is known ever since as the Peace of Nystad. Nothing about the town suggests such a role; it had been ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/1/uusikaupunki-wk/u6z1-uusikaupunki-where-a-war-was-signed-away.mp3 0:06 2 full Uusikaupunki: Ninety-Three Houses https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki/ On 28 July 1855 a fire started in a baker's oven on Sepänkatu. When it stopped it had taken ninety-three buildings and the town hall. What Uusikaupunki did next is the reason people come now. The architect Georg Theodor von Chiewitz drew a new town plan in 1856, laying out the bu...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/1/uusikaupunki-wk/u6z1-uusikaupunki-ninety-three-houses.mp3 0:06 3 full Uusikaupunki: Five Shipyards at Once https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki/ For a couple of decades after the fire, Uusikaupunki was one of the busiest shipbuilding towns in the country. Between 1857 and 1876 five yards operated here simultaneously, turning out wooden sailing vessels for a merchant marine that ranged the Baltic and beyond. At its height ...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/1/uusikaupunki-wk/u6z1-uusikaupunki-five-shipyards-at-once.mp3 0:06 4 full Uusikaupunki: The Bookbinder's Son https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki/ Bernhard Henrik Crusell was born here on 15 October 1775 into a poor family of bookbinders, which in the eighteenth century was not a background that led anywhere in particular. He became the finest clarinettist in northern Europe. Crusell rose to principal clarinet of the Swedis...

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]]> Mon, 17 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/6/z/1/uusikaupunki-wk/u6z1-uusikaupunki-the-bookbinders-son.mp3 0:06 5 full Uusikaupunki: The Sea and the Line https://qualla.com/uusikaupunki/ The harbour still works, though what leaves it now is mostly cars. Uusikaupunki has been an automotive town since 1968, when a joint venture between Valmet and Saab-Scania put an assembly plant on the northern edge of town; it remains Finland's only car factory. The railway that ...

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