Djúpavík
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| Coordinates | 65 ° 57 ′ N , 21 ° 33 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Iceland | ||
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| ISO 3166-2 | IS-4 | ||
| local community | Árnes | ||
 View of Reykjarfjörður and the M / S Suðurland in Djúpavík
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Djúpavík [ tjuːpaviˑk ] ( dt. "Deep bay" or "Bay of the abyss") is a place and a bay in the rural community Árnes in the region Strandir on the east coast of the Westfjords ( Westfjords ) in Iceland .
geography
Djúpavík is located on the Reykjarfjörður fjord . To the south of the village there is a mountain range with the Djúpuvíkurfoss waterfall .
history
Herring factory
In 1917, Djúpavík was registered with Guðjón Jónsson and his wife Kristín Guðmundsdóttir and their daughters, the first inhabitants. In the same year Elías Stefánsson built a herring salt station, of which Guðjón became the director. In the course of the construction of the station, houses and shops as well as a ship landing stage were built. Óskar Halldórsson had also set up a herring processing facility there at the same time.
However, due to the depreciation of herring after the First World War and the economic crisis of 1920, many workers were laid off in 1919.
From 1934 Djúpavík was again in an economic boom. We founded in Reykjavík , the corporation Djúpavík AG in order with the help of foreign capital - in Iceland there were no investors - to build a herring factory in Djúpavík. The Solborg Bank in Stockholm finally granted a loan of 4000 Swedish kronor , so that operations could start on July 7, 1935.
The Djúpavík Ltd. Iceland had many successful years until 1944. The approximately 90 m long herring factory was the largest and most modern of its kind in Europe in terms of its size and technology. The workers of the factory lived in tents and, especially in the cold season, on a 30-man attached steamship, the M / S Suðurland, which was bought in Denmark in 1919 and which can still be viewed today.
From 1936, the factory director was Óskar Ottesen, who was succeeded by the factory engineer, Guðmundur Guðjónsson. Guðmundur also became an MP for the region. Together with his wife Ragnheiður, he had an adopted daughter, María Guðmundsdóttir , who was elected Miss Iceland in 1961 at the age of 19 .
As a result of the construction of the factory, which alone employed around 60 people (around 200 other workers worked as salters), numerous other companies settled in the Árnes region, such as B. the factory canteen. In autumn, outside the fishing season, the factory building was converted into a slaughterhouse.
In 1936 a union was formed in the Árnes region, which won a wage increase through a one-day strike.
After 1944 the catch became noticeably lower until it dried up almost completely in 1950. Compensatory measures, such as catching other fish species, could only delay the end of the factory in 1954. The plan to open a freezer hall in the village was also discarded due to the lack of fishing. In 1968 Djúpavík AG was also liquidated.
Modern times
This was followed by a steady decline in the number of residents in the town, and in 1982 the town was deserted.
Finally, Ásbjörn Þorgilsson came to Djúpavík and, together with his wife Eva Sigurbjörnsdottir, renovated a house that had previously served as accommodation for workers. It was converted into a hotel and opened in the summer of 1985.
In 2003 a small exhibition on the history of the place was opened in the herring factory.
traffic
Djúpavík is on road 643, which leads south to the next larger town, Drangsnes . To the northeast the road leads to Gjögur , where the nearest airport is located, and further to Norðurfjörður and Bad Krossnes . There was also a gas station in Djúpavík, but it is no longer in operation. The nearest petrol stations are in Hólmavík , Drangsnes and Norðurfjörður.
Others
The Nobel laureate for literature Halldór Laxness chose Djúpavík as the location of his 1979 novel Guðsgjafaþulan (Eng. The litany of God's gifts ).
On July 27, 2006, a concert by the Icelandic band Sigur Rós took place in the old factory hall , which was recorded together with other concerts by the band in the film Heima . The film was screened in September 2007 at the Icelandic Film Festival in Reykjavík.
See also
literature
- Jens Willhardt, Christine Sadler: Iceland . 3rd updated and revised edition. Michael Müller, Erlangen 2003, ISBN 3-89953-115-9 , p. 578f.
Web links
- To Djúpavík on vestfirdir.is (Icelandic)
- Jón Jónsson, ea: The story of Djúpavík. (PDF; 3.69 MB)
- In strange beds. (Die Zeit, June 26, 2003, no.27)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Íslandshandbókin. Náttúra, saga og sérkenni. 1. bindi. Edited by T. Einarsson, H. Magnússon. Örn og Örlygur, Reykjavík 1989, 299
- ↑ Bjarni Guðmundsson, ea: Í strandabyggðum norðan lands og vestan. Ferðafélag Íslands, árbók 2000. Reykjavík 2000, 57
- ↑ a b essentially follows: Jón Jónsson, ea: The story of Djúpavík. ( Memento from September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 3.7 MB); Accessed August 15, 2011
- ↑ But at some point the pegs were missing in: FAZ of October 13, 2011, page R 6
- ↑ cf. Vegahandbókin. Ed. Landmælingar Íslands, 2006, 322f.