The story
Lempäälä's historic railway station opened on 22 June 1876 with the Hämeenlinna–Tampere railway. The station building followed standard drawings by Knut Nylander and was extended in 1908 and 1922 to designs by Bruno Granholm. The Finnish Heritage Agency identifies it as the only surviving Class IV station building between Hämeenlinna and Tampere. The station and canal surroundings are included in Finland's inventory of nationally significant built cultural environments.
The first written reference to the parish of Lempäälä dates from 1430. The oldest building in the town is a medieval church named after Saint Birgitta, built in 1504. The only surviving item from the Middle Ages in the church is a wooden crucifix carved from birch.
Finnish writer Yrjö Kokko lived in Lempäälä and is buried in the cemetery.
Ideapark, a shopping centre, is located in Lempäälä along the Helsinki-Tampere motorway (E12).
The former Piippo factory near Lempäälä railway station was completed in 1946. Piippo ceased operating at the factory in 2005, after which the building, known as Piippokeskus, accommodated office, storage and commercial premises. A draft zoning amendment presented in May 2026 proposed a cultural centre and housing on the site. The proposal envisaged demolition of much of the factory while seeking to retain its recognizable office portion as a reminder of the area's industrial history.
From Wikipedia’s article on Lempäälä, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5