Niuvanniemi hospital

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The hospital courtyard, the courtyard of the farm residential buildings, the laundry courtyard and the surrounding field landscape are culturally and historically significant examples of hospital functions differentiating into their own entities on an extensive hospital area. On these areas, building conservation measures aim to preserve not only the buildings but also the historical character of the construction method, which at the hospital courtyard means protecting the location of the series of buildings along the central axis of the central courtyard, even if individual buildings may undergo changes. More broadly, the aim is to preserve the area so that it includes, in addition to the protected areas related to the hospital's own functions, also the surrounding fields, meadows and hillocks, and the cultural landscape formed by the shoreline. The intention is to preserve the mutual relationship between the built environments and the open landscape of the area, as well as the distinctive character of the agricultural landscape. Niuvanniemi hospital area is a nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY site).

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish

Niuvanniemi hospital is a state psychiatric hospital in the Niuva district of Kuopio, Finland. Along with the other state mental hospital, Vanha Vaasa hospital, it provides forensic psychiatric services for the entire country. Niuvanniemi is the main location for secure housing and involuntary commitment of criminal patients, i.e. individuals that a court has found criminally insane, the hospital also receiving difficult-to-treat or dangerous mental health patients from the other Finnish hospitals. Niuvanniemi hospital is active in forensic psychiatry research, functioning as the Department of Forensic Psychiatry of University of Eastern Finland.

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Municipality

Kuopio