History

1690s

Närvijoki was populated in the 1690s when it was a part of Närpiö. During the severe years of famine a third of our country's population perished. Among them was Lauri Heikinpoika, the first settler in the Mäntylä estate area.

1698 A New settler

Olavi Niilonpoika began carving out new Mäntylä estate. The first household center was built in the area where Närvijoki youth association's house now resides.

1764-71 Great partition

When the great partition began, the new estate had cleared 20 acres of field in 55 partitions and 113 acres of meadows. The first buildings in our yard were completed.

1790 Tar production

The core estate of Mäntylä was split in two. The partition of Crown's forest had been completed. The high price of tar caused the area to prosper. During that time over half of Sweden-Finland's tar was produced in Southern and Central Ostrobothnia.

1820-1860 A new cultivation method

Swiddening was use more and more, and it resulted in good yields. Kotoneva was swiddened. The other main building of our estate was completed.

1888 To America

The estate's current owner's grandfather left for America "to carve gold".

1890-1905 Tragic deaths

Samuel and Tuomas Mäntylä inherited a 1/16 mantal farm and built the current Ostrobothnia pair house in place of the single main building. Samuel and his wife Maria lived in the house for six years before they both passed away. The ownership was transferred to Tuomas and his wife Amali, who also passed away after six years. Young orphans were left behind. Half of the farm belonged to their sister Elina and her husband, carpenter Matti Hahto for two years. The Elina died in 1904 and my great grandfather Juho Mäntylä bought the farm.

1897-1910 Acquisitions

Josefiina bought a 1/32 mantal estate next to her home while Juho was in California. After returning home, Juho Mäntylä sold his last quarry to Adolf Pernu. The granite business in California was lucrative enough for Juho Mäntylä to purchase four estates next to his home.

1910-1917 Strong building term

My grandfather Matti Mäntylä inherited half of the estate. One functional and progressive farm was formed out of three estates. One main building was reassembled as a shed complex. A new cow shed was built to have a lot of room and large windows. The result was an exemplary cow shed in its time; it received the first prize of Southern Ostrobothnia in 1915. It represents the first step in the long path of cow shed technology dvelopment. The ceilings of the halls of the main building were converted to an Amorican style and the windows were made larger. The founder of Laihian Metalli, Ludvig Närvä, built an Austrian Art Nouveau porch.

1949 Splitting the estate

Eino Mäntylä got the ownership of one third of the divided estate. The machinizing of agriculture began. Four brothers leaved nearby, and they had shared farming equipment from the very beginning.

1986-2000 Renovation

The estate's current owner Antero Mäntylä inherited a homestead from his uncle Eino. The renovation of the buildings began the following summer and was completed in October 2000. The Ostrobothnian setting made both Auli and Antero Mäntylä move from Helsinki back to their childhood neighborhood and continue running the estate as an agritourism destination. A central heating system was built, and it runs on woodchips.

1999-2006 Smoke sauna, pool and Hela-huoneet

A chimneyless sauna was built opposite to the shed, so that the shed serves as a dressing room. A pool complement the smoke sauna experience, and Hela rooms bring the number of accommodation rooms to ten.

2001-2009 Wähätupa

A discovery was made in the beginning of the millenium. Old court records showed that there had stood a two storey Wähätupa in the yard from 1895 until 1907. Juho Mäntylä relocated that to his own mansion, from where it has later been deconstructed and burnt.

Based on photographs and old memories, a new building with an old style was designed. It was completed in the summer of 2003. Wähätupa has four rooms, including a romantic wedding chamber and other accommodation.

2012-2017 New accommodation and renewable energy

An outbuilding in the "wolf yard" was built 100 years ago. A new accommodation unit, consiting of four rooms and a kitched, was completed in the summer of 2012. It's called Susitupa (Wolf House). At the same time a 40m² sun collectors were installed on the southern roof. Thus the heating and warm water for the accommodation can be produced with clean and renewable energy. The sun collectors have produced the equivalent of 100 000 kWh in five years.