Aamaruutissat

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Aamaruutissat (coal)
Skansen (the ski jump )
Aumarûtigssat
Commune Qeqertalik municipality
District Qeqertarsuaq
Geographical location 69 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  N , 52 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 69 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  N , 52 ° 26 ′ 0 ″  W
Aamaruutissat (Greenland)
Aamaruutissat
Residents 0
(1966)
founding 1851
Time zone UTC-3

Aamaruutissat [ ˈaːmɑˌʁutˢisːatˢʰ ] (after the old spelling Aumarûtigssat ; Danish Skansen ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Qeqertarsuaq in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Aamaruutissat is located on the south coast of Disko Island, 48 km northeast of Qeqertarsuaq and 57 km northwest of Ilulissat .

history

At Aamaruutissat coal was mined by Dutch whalers before the colonial era . Later, among other things, here the Danish coal mining was Ritenbenk Kulbrud operated, the coal supply of the Disko Bay region served. In July 1776 the area was visited by Svend Sandgreen . At that time there was no permanent place to live there, but the area was repeatedly used as a summer place. In July 1791, Inspector Børge Johan Schultz got caught in a storm and could only be saved because 50 Greenlanders had pitched their camp here. In the same year, people from Qeqertarsuaq started mining. In 1795 a house was built that was part of the Godhavn complex. During the war from 1807 to 1814, coal mining was abandoned. The house was destroyed in a storm in the winter of 1811. After the war, the area was only occasionally used for coal mining. In 1820 a house was built to give travelers shelter on their way. In 1824, Greenlanders destroyed it to get the wood. When a ship sank on October 11, 1833 during the coal mining, it was stopped again. In 1837 it started again and in 1839 a wooden house with a peat wall facade was built. In 1843 coal mining was stopped again and an attempt to catch yarn began. In 1849 this was also given up.

Aamaruutissat was founded as Udsted in 1851 and has been continuously inhabited since then. The craftsman Hans Geisler was allowed to settle here and mine coal. His numerous descendants made up the population of Aamaruutissat.

In 1918 Aamaruutissat had 44 inhabitants. Among them were eight hunters, two fishermen, the Udsteds administrator, a catechist and a midwife. There were nine Greenlandic houses and one apartment for the Udsteds administrator, which was actually also a Greenlandic house. The shop from 1852 was a half-timbered building with board cladding and roofing felt and assembled with the bacon house, which was a peat wall house. The provisions store was from 1887. The school chapel was built in 1915 using materials from the old church in Qeqertarsuaq.

In 1928 a proper Udsteds administrator's apartment was built in Aamaruutissat. A new school chapel was built in 1929, a packing house in 1933 and a new bacon house in 1943. Between 1930 and 1960 the place had 64 to 98 inhabitants. In 1960 Aamaruutissat lost its Udsteds status and was only a place to live. In 1965 the place was finally abandoned.

From 1911 Aamaruutissat was a separate municipality without associated living space in the colonial district of Godhavn. The municipality belonged to the 7th district electoral council of North Greenland. From 1950 the place was part of the new municipality Qeqertarsuaq .

Sons and daughters

Individual evidence

  1. Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ^ A b Morten P. Porsild , Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Godhavn district. Bopladser i Godhavn district. Udstedet Skansen . In: Georg Carl Amdrup , Louis Bobé , Adolf Severin Jensen , Hans Peder Steensby (eds.): Grønland i tohundredeaaret for Hans Egedes landing (=  Meddelelser om Grønland . Volume 60-61 ). tape 1 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 331 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ A b c Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 157 ff .