Mäki-Matti is a district and a statistical area of Jyväskylä, Finland and a part of the Kantakaupunki ward.[2][3] The statistical area contains the Nousukatu, Hippos, Rautpohja, Kyllö and Syrjälä subareas.[3] Mäki-Matti has several services such as schools, a convenience store, a pub and a R-Kioski shop. The oldest family park of Finland is also located in the district.[2]

Mäki-Matti
District of Jyväskylä
View from tower Vesilinna to Mäki-Matti.
Coordinates: 62°18′N 25°39′E
Country	Finland
Province	Western Finland
Region	Central Finland
Sub-region	Jyväskylä sub-region
City	Jyväskylä
Ward	Kantakaupunki
Population  (2020)[1]
• Total	4,677
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Postal code	40700 JYVÄSKYLÄ

Mäki-Matti is the first suburb of Jyväskylä to be merged into the city, which was done in 1914.[4]

History

Mäki-Matti is named after a tenant farmer named Matti Matinpoika (fl. 1806-1865), whose tenure farm Paatela was split from the Syrjälä farm. The name Paatela disappears from church documents in the 1840s and is replaced by the name Mäki-Matti. Originally Mäki-Matti was only a farm name while the area was simply known as Mäki, "the hill". The name of the area appears as Mäkimatin mäki in church documents from the year 1881. The term, pronounced as MäkʹMatti (where kʹ represents a palatalized /k/) in the local dialect, was later extended to the entire Syrjälä area.

Osuuskauppa Mäki-Matti was founded in 1905. It was one of the first cooperative shops in Finland. Mäki-Matti was transferred from Jyväskylän maalaiskunta to Jyväskylä in 1908.[5]

Gallery

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  Functionalist apartment buildings in Rautpohja.
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  An R-kioski shop with postal services in Mäki-Matti.
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  A convenience store in Mäki-Matti.
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  Building Viveca in the Hippos area.
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  Apartment buildings in the Nousukatu subarea.
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  Schildt Upper Secondary School.
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  Single-family houses in Mäki-Matti.
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  An apartment building and a pub on street Voionmaankatu.
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  Finnish Music Campus
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  Vellamonpuisto is one of the parks in Mäki-Matti.

Notable people

• Gettomasa, rapper[6]
• Matti Nykänen, ski jumper[7]
• Väinö Voionmaa, politician[8]

References