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A survey of the land fortifications remaining in the Espoo area was conducted in spring 1997, and the Technical Centre's green areas service has produced a publication on the report. Some of the fortifications have already previously been marked in the landscape, and the replacement of the signs is planned. Helsinki's land and coastal fortification is a valuable historical site for Finland as a whole. The fortifications are also of broader significance to military history, since they are among the earliest examples of a scattered defence system in the world. The war museum has surveyed the coastal fortifications nowadays situated in army areas.
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In 1971, the National Board of Antiquities and Historical Monuments decided that the land and coastal fortifications are sites which are to be protected under the Antiquities Act. The structures are protected by law irrespective of land ownership or whether the authorities are aware of their existeníce. Under the law, the fortifications must not be covered, filled in, dug out or destroyed in any other way without the Board of Antiquities' permission to touch them. Over the last decade, the land fortifications have gradually starting being renovated as part of the built cultural environment. The aim is for them to be preserved, protected and presented to the delight of locals and visitors alike. |
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The work is carried out in accordance with management guidelines drawn up jointly by the Board of Antiquities and Helsinki City Engineer's Office. Priority is given to removing plants which obscure visibility and damage the structures and to clearing away the rubbish which has accumulated in the trenches. |
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