Argir
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| position | 62 ° 0 ′ N , 6 ° 46 ′ W | |
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Resident rank |
2,039 (2016) 4 |
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| Commune | Tórshavnar kommuna | |
| Post Code | FO 160 | |
| Markatal | - | |
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Grammar dative (in / from ...) genitive (after ...) |
á / av Argjum Argja * |
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| * In the case of Argir, however, the accusative: (út) á Argir - (out) to Argir stands in the movement towards the place | ||
Argir ( IPA : [ˈaɹʤɪɹ] , Danish Arge ) is a place in the Faroe Islands with over 2000 inhabitants and today the southern district of Tórshavn , the capital of the Faroe Islands , which is located on the largest island of Streymoy .
place
Argir was once a village south of Tórshavn, which became the seat of the Argja kommuna during the 20th century . However, this municipality was merged in 1997 with the capital municipality of Tórshavn ( Tórshavnar kommuna ). Due to the increased construction activity, Argir now extends far into the slopes. From here you have a beautiful view of the capital and the sea with the offshore island of Nólsoy . Argir also has an idyllic little port.
The first school was built in 1952 and the first church was built in Argir in 1974. In 2006 the seawater aquarium of the Faroe Islands ( Føroya Sjósavn ) was opened in the vacant "íshúsið", a former ice storage facility on the shore in Argir .
Argir's football club is Argja Bóltfelag (AB).
Another local sports club is the Argir Rowing Club ( Argja Róðrarfelag ) founded in 1982 . It is now one of the largest clubs in this sport in the Faroe Islands and with 26 Faroe Islands championships won (2015), it is the second most successful on the islands in the North Atlantic, just after the Tórshavner Rowing Club ( Havnar Róðrarfelag ).
history
The place name is mentioned for the first time in writing in a property register from 1584. However, the area was most likely already settled in the Middle Ages, as indicated by the name of the place, which can be traced back to a type of summer grazing that was also used in Ireland and Scotland in the Middle Ages was widespread and was called airge in Gaelic . In Scandinavia, on the other hand, it is known as Seter , sæter or säter .
The Lutheran Hamburg merchant Thomas Köppen (or Koppen or Køpping) had received the Faroe Islands as a fief from the Danish king in 1529 . Around 1538/1539, as in Norway and Denmark, the change of faith took place in the Faroe Islands . A few years later, in 1545, a hospital for the sick with serious contagious diseases, mainly leprosy , was built in Argir under the resident of Kirkjubøur , Jens Riber . At that time the place was chosen because of its remote location. Almost two years later, in 1547, Köppen, as a feudal lord, was obliged by the king to maintain the newly established Latin school in Tórshavn and the new hospital in Argir. However, Köppen died in 1553 and the Faroe fiefdom passed to Bergen in Norway in 1555 .
Even in the so-called fork period from 1655, the feudal lord was responsible for the maintenance of the Latin school in Tórshavn and the hospital in Argir with 100 guilders each. In the first half of the 18th century, the number of hospital residents decreased steadily, which is to a certain extent related to the smallpox that was rampant in the Faroe Islands at that time . Between 1723 and 1736 there were only three patients in the hospital and from 1740 only one permanently ill patient, who then died in 1752. After that, the hospital had no more permanent patients and the place was only inhabited by seven administrative and service staff. The existence of the hospital was not threatened by its secure sources of income; on the contrary, it even lent money.
At the beginning of the 19th century the then Løgmaður Jørgen Frants Hammershaimb finally decided to sell the hospital and the land belonging to it in Argir. In 1828 a major auction took place in Saksun , at which the hospital in Argir was also offered for sale. Andrass Mortansson, an ancestor of Niels Juel Arge , bought the hospital building along with the associated flooring for 1005 Danish Reichstaler . In the following year, 1829, he moved there with his wife Elspa and repopulated the place. Andrass also built a bridge over the Sandá between 1831 and 1835. This bridge has now been restored and, located right next to the modern traffic bridge, now serves as a pedestrian crossing.
Web links
- Argir , torshavn.fo
- Argir , Faroeislands.dk (in English. Info and photos)
- Føroya Sjósavn , sjosavn.net (sea water aquarium in Argir)
- Argja Róðrarfelag , a.fo (Argir Rowing Club)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Føroya Sjósavn ( Memento from June 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), sjosavn.net
- ↑ Hvussu gomul er bygdin , heimabeiti.fo
- ↑ No 6. Norderø ell. Norderøernes Præstegjeld , wiberg-net.dk
- ↑ Recorded in a royal letter from Schleswig from 1529: “forleentt Tomis Koppenn vdi Hamborg met Ffeerøe” on page 178 in: Simun V. Arge & Natascha Mehler: Adventures far from home: Hanseatic trade with the Faroe Islands , in Across the North Sea , Odense 2012
- ^ Hans Jacob Debes: Føroya søga II - Skattland og len , Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur 1995.
- ↑ Hvat vita vit um spidalska hospitalið á Argjum , hvannrok.fo
- ^ Hans Jacob Debes: Føroya søga II - Skattland og len , Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur 1995.
- ^ Hans Jacob Debes: Føroya søga II - Skattland og len , Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur 1995.
- ^ GVC Young: From the Vikings to the Reformation - A Chronicle of the Faroe Islands Up to 1538 , Shearwater Press, Douglas, Isle of Man 1979
- ^ Hans Jacob Debes: Føroya søga II - Skattland og len , Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur 1995.
- ↑ Hvat vita vit um spidalska hospitalið á Argjum , hvannrok.fo
- ↑ Argir - Andras Mortansson 1794-1875 , arnbjorn.com
- ↑ Tá ið Andrass Mortansson bygdi brúnna um Sandá ( Memento from June 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), hvannrok.fo, October 26, 2014 (in Faroese)