You are warmly welcome to the official website of the village of Kolkku - a small village at the Northern corner of Central Finland.

Unfortunately the contents of the pages are currently written only in Finnish. However, this page is provided to shortly introduce the village.

On the map, the village is located in the North-East corner of the community of Viitasaari, and shares borderline with Pihtipudas and Keitele. The distance to the centrum of the town of Viitasaari is about 36km - Kolkku is one of the most outlying and most sparsely populated villages in the Central Finland.

The history of the village dates back to the end of the 18th century, when the first families settled down on the shores of lake Kolkku. Swamps and forests were cleared and ditched to start the farming of the land. Roads to nearby neighbour villages were built. The village started to grow.

The golden years of the village were in the 60's and 70's. During those decades the village was very lively, and provided a home for many. Unfortunaly, the majority of the young people moved to the city in the 70's, as was the trend those days, and the village diminished in just a few decades.

Through the years, the most important achievements of the village are without doubt the arranging of the own school building and building of the road connection from Kumpumäki to the border of the community of Pihtipudas.

Currently the village has somewhat 26 house holds, and population around 70. On summer time the village blooms up to 120 inhabitants, for the period of the summer holiday season.

From the beginning to the present day, the ecomony of the village has been mainly based on agriculture and forestry. However, the village also has quite a few etrepreneurs (green housing, machinery rental and repairing business, camping/accommondation/winderness trekking, etc.). Also, some of the village people are employed outside the village (mainly in the town of Viitasaari).