Yhdistyneet Villatehtaat – Sodassa kaatuneiden muistomerkki

Hyvinkää

Period: Unknown
Category: Memorial
Location accuracy: Approximate area

A memorial related to the wars. Unveiled 1941.

Access and getting there

Villatehtaan sisäpiha. Muistopaikka — käyttäydy kunnioittavasti.

What happened here

Battles, troop movements and military operations recorded near this site.

21 April 1918
Battle of Hyvinkää
Battle · Suomen sisällissota · 623 m
The Battle of Hyvinkää was fought during the Finnish Civil War on 19-21 April 1918, when troops from the German Baltic Sea Division marching from Helsinki conquered the locality from the Reds who had held it for three months. The Germans attacked Hyvinkää from three directions; from the direction of Klaukkala and Nurmijärvi via the Hanko railway line and along the Tuusula highway and mainline. The main defense positions of the Reds were along the Hanko track in Hyvinkäänkylä, after which fierce battles took place in the station area. After the well-taken invasion, a bloody follow-up began, with Whites executing about 150 Reds, actual or suspected, during May.
== Background == When the Civil War broke out, Hyvinkää was a municipality of about 8,000 inhabitants, which had become independent of the Nurmijärvi parish a year earlier. Since the turn of the century, the locality had been divided into wealthy landowners and civil servants, as well as workers who had come to the locality by rail and industry. Hyvinkää's largest employer was the United Wool Mills (Yhdistyneet Villatehtaat). Until the general strike of 1905, the Nurmijärvi parish was dominated by local landowner families, but with the social upheaval, the labor movement also gained influence. After the general strike of November 1917, the municipal administration of Hyvinkää gradually passed to the Reds, and power finally came into their hands by mid-February 1918. During the rule of the Reds, a total of 16 Whites were killed in Hyvinkää. Red Guards from elsewhere were also involved in the bloodshed.
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28 October 1939
Sjuna 2:n keskittäminen.
Troop movement · Hyvinkää · 717 m

Recorded casualties in the area

Hyvinkää: 9

The recorded place of death is usually a parish or village rather than an exact point, so the figure describes the area around the site. Names of the fallen are not shown.

Sotasampo · Kansallisarkisto, menehtyneet 1939–1945