![]() The mill at the crest of the hill and another at Knutsbacken are the only ones remaining in the village of eight from 50 years ago. The two beautiful oak trees from 1700 were protected from the north wind and grew up to become of interest in this northern latitude. The Holms homestead was a squire’s property in previous centuries but was sold by constable Solvin in 1875 when it went over to farmers. These have both been rebuilt and expanded with a third then in 1907 Vörå high school had a comfortable and beautiful home. Directly to the south from Klemitus and away from the road lies Holms farm with five farmers, of which three inhabit the yellow mansion-like main building and a farm building. ![]() Of the two other cottages at Kråkberget, one belongs to the church watchman and is called Vektaris in daily speech. In 1912 it was converted to a tuberculosis dispensary, but after 1917 it was changed back to a farmhouse. The latter belongs to the homestead with the same name, called Klemitus and is in a beautiful aspen grove. We begin our wandering in the north toward Kråkberget where Johan Påhls and Isak Nygårds farms are located. Let us go around through the village to learn how it looked a half century ago. Rökiö also had torps in Kalapä, 17 in Röukas and 7 in Komossa all of which later became independent homes. Some farmers had more than one homestead. In an area which is about a half kilometer long and a hundred yards wide, we count about 35 farmhouses with all of the outbuildings a well-stocked farm has.Īt the turn of the century Rökiö village had 16 numbered homesteads with a total of 10 mantal, and the free holding farms numbered 49. The dwellings here are very close together. Most of the village farmhouses lie on either side of the creek which flows in a westerly direction and ends up in the Vörå river near the church. ![]() Others have been rebuilt and undergone beautification with red and white paint. The homes of the landless that were hidden behind the hills have disappeared. Farms remain in their places, but several of them have been enlarged. ![]() During the time that elapsed since the turn of the century, this village has remained as it was. There are groups of farmhouses but also small cottages which lie scattered on the hillside. Part of the village is located near these hills. which give the landscape a very different look than what we are accustomed to with the Ostrobothnian flatlands. They are limited by hills of which the highest is Furuberget of ca 30 m. They bear the names Norråkern, Överåkern, Söderåkern, Barkaråkern. The fields lie closest to the village and have an area of ca 190 hectares. This narrows north of the village into a strait between Myrberget in the west and Folkhögskolbacken in the east but widens further north and goes between the river and hills of Kråkberget – Kärrberget – Bodberget for the meadows that are called Åkroken, Åholmen and Tukurängarna. Of the village’s meadows and arable land, about half are cultivated batches of bogs and swamps in the forest area, and the rest is the so-called Vörå plain. The border villages in the south are Mäkipä and Miemois, in the west Myrbergsby and Lålax, in the north Tuckur and in the east to Oravais is the village Komossa. It extends in area and dwellings in a northerly direction of the Vörå river. The population of Rökiö is one of the largest villages in Vörå. The few farms and the homes of the priest and sexton that lie closest to the church use the name Myrbergsby, but there is no reason for this designation. ![]() In Rökiö the farms are not grouped around the church or near it, the nearest is about 200 meters from it, but with its dense settlement and commercial center it could be called a village. When a stranger asks about the church village in Vörå, he probably has been told that Vörå has a village known as the church village. By Hjalmar Hildén From ’Den Österbottniska Byn’. ![]()
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