Kautokeino

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coat of arms map
Coat of arms of the municipality of Kautokeino
Kautokeino (Norway)
Kautokeino
Kautokeino
Basic data
Commune number : 5430
Province  (county) : Troms and Finnmark
Administrative headquarters: Kautokeino
Coordinates : 69 ° 1 '  N , 23 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 69 ° 1 '  N , 23 ° 3'  E
Surface: 9,707.35 km²
Residents: 2,910  (Feb 27, 2020)
Population density : 0.3 inhabitants per km²
Language form : Bokmål and North Sami
Website:
politics
Mayor : Hans Isak Olsen  ( Fastboendes list ) (2019)
Located in the province of Troms and Finnmark
Location of the municipality in the province of Troms og Finnmark

Kautokeino ( North Sami Guovdageaidnu ; Finnish and Kven : Koutokeino ) is a municipality in the province ( Fylke ) Troms og Finnmark in Norway .

geography

Kautokeino is located on the banks of the Altaelv in Finnmarksvidda, 120 km south of Alta . The districts of the municipality are Kautokeino (Guovdageaidnu), Masi (Máze), Stornes, Šuoššjávri, Økseidet, Láhpoluoppal, Siebe, Áidejávri and Soahtefielbma. With 9,708 km² it is the largest municipality in Norway. Lake Iešjávri lies on the northern border .

The vast majority of the population are Sami . The inhabitants live mainly from reindeer herding, but tourism is gaining in economic importance. Above all, the impressive northern lights , as well as the traditional Sami culture, which is connected with the modern, are points of attraction for travelers.

history

church

At the beginning of the 16th century, Kautokeino was founded as a seed settlement. Until 1751 the community belonged to Swedish Lapland. In 1751 the city passed to Norway.

In November 1852 there was the Kautokeino Rebellion, bloody riots, especially against the sale of alcohol, of the Laestadian Sami population against church and state. On November 8, 1852, 35 raised seeds practiced lynching . They killed the merchant and the country gendarme on the spot, flogged the pastor and burned the merchant's house down. This uprising was primarily due to the miserable social conditions of the Sami people , but many blamed Læstadius and his movement for what had happened. The ringleaders Aslak Jacobsen Hætta and Mons Aslaksen Somby were sentenced to death in October 1854 and executed by beheading . The death sentence for Hætta's brother Lars (1834-1896) was commuted to life imprisonment. When he was pardoned after fifteen years in prison, he had begun translating the Bible into Sami . His translation of the New Testament appeared in 1874, and that of the entire Bible in 1895. The story of the rebellion was filmed in 2007 under the title "Kautokeino-opprøret" (Eng. The Kautokeino Rebellion ) by Nils Gaup .

As part of the First International Polar Year , the Dane operational Sophus Tromholt in winter 1882/83 in the police station Kautokeino an observatory for observing auroras . The photographs he took of the life of the Sami people and the landscape of Finnmark during this period are now in the library of the University of Bergen . The Sophus Tromholt Collection was declared a World Document Heritage by UNESCO in 2013 .

Culture

The Sami music competition Sámi Grand Prix has been held in Kautokeino since 1990 . Films by Sami directors have been shown in Kautokeino since 1996 at the Sami Film Festival . The festival is the only snowmobile - Drive-in movie theater in the world. The band KEiiNO , which represented Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 , named themselves after the place.

Personalities

Lars Jakobsen Hætta 1882/83 (Photo: S. Tromholt)

sons and daughters of the town

See also

Web links

Commons : Kautokeino  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Statistisk sentralbyrå - Befolkning
  2. Store norske leksikon - Største norske kommuner etter areal ( Memento from September 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  3. Bjørn Aarseth: Lars Hætta In: Norsk biografisk leksikon (Norwegian)
  4. Susan Barr: Sophus Tromholt . In: Susan Barr, Cornelia Lüdecke (Ed.): The History of the International Polar Years (IPYs) . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-12401-3 , pp. 74–76 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-642-12402-0 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  5. Sophus Tromholt Collection. In: Memory of the World - Register. UNESCO , 2013, accessed July 31, 2016 .