Housing trade | A huge apartment is being sold in the historical “castle” of Kaivopuisto

Helsinki In Kaivopuisto, an apartment from the “castle” has been put up for sale, with a view of Luodo and its wooden mansion. Over the years, the previous residents of the historical Kalliolinna apartment building, built in 1843, have included marshal Mannerheim neighbors.

For sale is a huge apartment on the second or middle floor. In the sales notice published in Oikotie, the apartment is described as Helsinki’s “classic, valuable history”.

In addition to Kalliolinna and the Mannerheim Museum, the neighborhood includes other villas such as Villa Kleineh, completed in 1839, which currently serves as the official residence of the Dutch ambassador.

Previously There was an apartment for sale in Kallilinna in 2021, but it was a smaller ground-level apartment. At that time was reportedthat the house has not been sold for more than 30 years. 1.3 million euros were asked for the more than one hundred square meter apartment. The square price was then just under 12,150 euros.

You can pay an even higher price per square meter for the whole floor apartment that is now for sale, i.e. just under 16,900 euros per square meter. The selling price is 4.9 million euros.

This time, the money gets, among other things, 290 square meters, 5 rooms, a kitchen, a sauna and a room height of almost four meters.

The rock castle behind the history is the Ullanlinna spa that once functioned in Kaivopuisto, which was built in the area in 1836. Shortly after that, the Kaivohuone also appeared in Kaivopuisto, which was originally built specifically for spa guests to refresh themselves.

During that time, the spa was a popular vacation spot, especially among the Russian upper class, because the Russian emperor Nicholas I had forbidden the nobility to go on more distant spa trips to central Europe.

Building a park around the spa was an expensive operation, which was financed by renting villa plots in the surrounding areas. One of these was Kalliolinna. It was built by a non-fiction writer and the manager of the Ullanlinna spa Frans Johan Rabbe. The architect was a German Ernst Lohrmann.

The operation of the spa ceased at the end of the 19th century.

Villa Kalliolinna is a protected site. The Sr-1 protection designation forbids demolishing the building and making changes that spoil the style of the street facades or the basic shape of the water roof.