Loviisa
The Svartholm fortress was built between 1749 and 1764 outside Loviisa in Southern Finland by Augustin Ehrensvärd. The fortress, which lies at the mouth of the Bay of Loviisa, along with the planned land fortress at Loviisa, would have prevented invading Russian forces from entering what was then Swedish territory in present-day Finland.Photo: Сергеев, Гавриил Сергеевич, Public domain.
- Type: Locality with 14,400 residents
- Description: Fortress near Loviisa, Finland
- Also known as: “Svartholm fortress” and “Svartholm Fortress”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loviisa Church and Sibelius House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tesjoki.
Tesjoki
Village
Photo: IA, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tesjoki is a village in Loviisa municipality, Uusimaa, Finland. There are two schools in the village, one with education in Finnish and one where Swedish is the main language. Tesjoki is situated 5 km east of Loviisa.
Loviisa
- Categories: castle and fortress island
- Location: Loviisa, Loviisa, Uusimaa, Southern Finland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Loviisa” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “斯瓦尔特霍尔姆城堡”
- Chinese: “斯瓦爾特霍爾姆城堡”
- Chinese: “斯瓦特霍尔姆堡垒”
- Chinese: “斯瓦特霍爾姆堡壘”
- Danish: “Svartholm fæstning”
- Dutch: “Loviisa”
- Estonian: “Loviisa linn”
- Finnish: “Loviisa”
- Finnish: “Svartholma”
- Finnish: “Svartholman linnoitus”
- Finnish: “Svartholman merilinnoitus”
- French: “forteresse de Svartholm”
- French: “Forteresse de Svartholm”
- French: “Loviisa”
- German: “Festung Svartholm”
- German: “Loviisa”
- German: “Svartholman Merilinnoitus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Svartholm festning”
- Norwegian: “Lovisa”
- Norwegian: “Svartholm festning”
- Persian: “دژ سوارتهلم”
- Portuguese: “Fortaleza de Svartholm”
- Romanian: “Loviisa”
- Russian: “Ловийса”
- Russian: “Свартгольм”
- Russian: “Свартхольм”
- Swedish: “Lovisa”
- Swedish: “Svartholm”
- Swedish: “Svartholms fästning”
- Turkish: “Svartholm Kalesi”
- Turkish: “Svartholman merilinnoitus”
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