Bauer Juha Karimo
Die Ferienhäuser von Ylöstalo werden seit über fünfzig Jahren vermietet. Gastgeber Juha Karimo braucht in seiner täglichen Arbeit viele praktische Fähigkeiten. Die Gebäude müssen gepflegt werden, Motorboote brauchen Wartung, und das Brennholz für die Saunen stammt im Winter aus dem eigenen Wald der Familie. Fast jeden Herbst beschädigen Stürme einige Stege, und starker Regen hinterlässt Spuren auf den Wegen. Vielleicht triffst du Juha unten im Hafen, wenn du ein Motorboot mietest. Oder du siehst ihn auf den kleinen Wegen des Hofes auf seinem „Hüttenmoped“, mit einem Anhänger voller Wäschesäcke – oder irgendwo auf dem Grundstück einen Graben aushebend.
Juhas Motto: „Wer Ferienhäuser vermietet, sollte einen Baggermachine besitzen.“
Hilkka Karimo ist für das Marketing verantwortlich
Hilkka Karimo ist die Schwester von Juha. Sie kümmert sich um Buchungen und Rechnungen, betreut die sozialen Medien und hat die Website von Ylöstalo aufgebaut. Nach ihrer Rückkehr aus Nord-Espoo schätzt Hilkka die guten Internetverbindungen und die Nähe zu den alltäglichen Dienstleistungen.
„Das Restaurant Tiiranta, die Bibliothek, das Fitnessstudio und andere Angebote in der Nähe meines Zuhauses in Särkisalo sind schnell erreichbar. VisitSalo bietet hilfreiche Tourismus-Schulungen für Unternehmer. Ich bin sehr glücklich mit meiner Entscheidung, Espoo hinter mir zu lassen.“
Partner
In Särkisalo gibt es mehrere Unternehmer, deren Hilfe für Ylöstalo sehr wertvoll ist – auch wenn wir vieles selbst erledigen. Die Reinigung der Ferienhäuser, Reparaturen von Bootsmotoren, der Austausch von Saunabänken und Ofengläsern, der Einbau großer Fenster oder die Pflege der Wege…
Wenn Unterstützung nah ist, läuft alles reibungslos.
The Karimo family
Ylöstalo has been in the same family since 1711. Earlier records have not been researched, but mentions of the village go back to the 1500s, and ancestors can be traced to the 1600s. In the 1700s, Finland had about 400,000 inhabitants.
In the early 1900s, author Ernst Lampen (later known as Iso-Keisari) spent his summers in Norrby. He recorded parts of our family history, often by listening to the stories of Gammelfar, Gustaf Wilhelm Bjur, who was almost 90 years old. Lampen enjoyed his time in Finby, partly thanks to the jovial sea captains who lived in the area. These captains had seen the world; they had often started at sea at the age of fourteen, working on ships built by the local villages and farms. The most talented of them became captains of ocean-going vessels, and Finby had several of these as well.
peasant sailors
Gammelfar, born in the 1820s, was a hard-working and sharp businessman. He owned shares in several ships. At that time, peasant seafaring was still living its golden age, and thanks to good marriages and successful property deals, he eventually owned all three farms in Norrby. Gustaf Wilhelm also had his own vessel, which he used for trips to Stockholm, Reval (Tallinn), and Helsinki.
It was common to bring home new ideas and small gifts from these overseas journeys. Gammelfar was among the first to have his house painted, inspired by the houses along Lake Mälaren in Sweden. The captains’ homes were furnished with stylishly furnished, and their wives received beautiful fabrics and scarves as presents. Even the ladies of Perniö manors kept a close eye on how the folks from Finby dressed.
The deaf cuckoo
Gammelfar bought a house for his third son, Elis, and named it Strängnäs after a Swedish town Elis was fond of (now known as Vahervaara). By then, steamships had made sailing ships less profitable, but Elis still owned a couple of vessels.
As a young man, Elis once quietly stood under a tree where a cuckoo was calling. He made a wish: to marry Matilda Bastman, and have one child. But the cuckoo must have misheard him – he married Matilda and had ten children.
Usually, it’s hard to trace maternal lines in church records, but Matilda’s ancestry can be followed all the way back to 13th-century German nobles who were sent to Sweden and later to Finland.