Kurbnesh

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Kurbnesh
Kurbneshi
Kurbnesh (Albania)
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Coordinates: 41 ° 47 '  N , 20 ° 5'  E

Basic data
Qark : Lezha
Municipality : Mirdita
Height : 754  m above sea level A.

Kurbnesh ( Albanian  also  Kurbneshi ) is a small place in northern Albania in the mountainous region of Mirdita . The seat of the Selita municipality until 2015 , Kurbneshi is now part of the Mirdita municipality . The former miners' settlement is isolated in the mountains.

geography

Dilapidating houses in the center of the village, Maja e Gurit Gjon in the background

Kurbnesh is located in the valley of the Uraka River at an altitude of 754  m above sea level. A. The place is surrounded by high mountains: in the southeast the mountain Maja e Gurit Gjon rises steeply ( 1443  m above sea level ), in the northeast the mountain range of the Maja e Gurit të Gjatë rises (also 1443  m above sea level). ), a southern peak of the Malet e Shenjtit . In the west is the mountain Mali i Barnës ( 1062  m above sea level ). In the northwest, the terrain does not fall below 900  m above sea level. A. The Uraka flows south through a narrow gorge.

A road leads through the village to Lura . It reaches the place over a 900 meter high pass in the northwest and previously led slowly increasing in height on a ridge between the valleys of Shebja and Lëkunda. The 36 kilometers from Rrëshen take well over an hour, as more than half of the route is unpaved. In September 2016, the first renewal of the road to Kurbnesh in 20 years was announced. Asphalting was not planned.

The former municipality of Selita, which also included the villages of Bardhaj , Kthella e Epërme , Kumbull , Lëkunda , Lufaj , Mërkurth , Shebja and Zajs , had an area of ​​101 square kilometers. Today the municipality is an administrative unit (njesia administrative).

The Gur i Gjonit mountain , the Kanion i Shehut të keq gorge in the north-east of the mountain, the Kroi i Bardhë medicinal spring further up and the Mriz i Shënaprenës forest near Shebja are Albania's national natural monuments on the territory of the former municipality.

There is usually snow for several weeks a year. The lowest temperature ever measured was -27 ° C.

Residents

Exact numbers on the population are not available. Of the 1,100 inhabitants in 1987, at least three quarters have now left the place.

In the 2011 census, 745 people were recorded in what was then Selita. The local authorities give a significantly higher number of 1974 inhabitants for January 2012. At that time, less than 13% of the families in the municipality lived in Kurbnesh. The population should therefore be in the range of a maximum of 100 to 300 people. The media reported numbers of a few dozen residents.

Of the 169 households recorded in the census, none had an internet connection, but almost all had a mobile phone. There was a landline telephone in two households. Over 160 had a television and a refrigerator, but only one household had a boiler. Three quarters had a washing machine (almost all with running water) and, with the exception of one household, they were all heated with wood. Only 13 families own a car.

history

A village Kurbnesh has been proven since the 15th century. 1956 was copper - mine opened and established a larger place. In 1960 an enrichment factory (copper smelter) went into operation, the first of its kind in Albania. In Kurbnesh, which was considered a city, a middle school , a hospital, a cultural center, a library and a museum were in operation in the first half of the 1980s . In 1969 the population was given as 1400 people.

Kurbnesh is one of the places in Albania that was heavily depopulated as a result of the collapse of the communist regime, particularly due to unemployment. The mining industry has been closed for many years, the village is isolated from the environment due to the poor road. Today only a few dozen residents live on site. The municipal authorities reported a decrease in the number of inhabitants from 5341 people in 1993 to 1998 people in 2009, of whom 249 lived in the city of Kurbnesh. Many have migrated to lower regions of the Mirdita, the Albanian plains or abroad.

Infrastructure

In Kurbnesh there is a substation of the electricity company OSHEE , which supplies the villages in the area with electricity. The middle school closed in 2003. The village school had 66 students in the 2008/09 school year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elvis Hila: Kurbneshi e Kaçinari drejt izolimit, dy orë për 20 km. In: Panorama online. February 29, 2016, Retrieved August 19, 2017 (Albanian).
  2. ^ Nis puna për rehabilitimin e rrugës Livadhi i Turkut - Kurbnesh. In: Bashkia Mirdita. September 23, 2016, Retrieved August 19, 2017 (Albanian).
  3. ↑ a b Njësia Administrative Selite. (PDF) In: Këshilli i Qarkut Lezhë. Retrieved April 29, 2019 (Albanian).
  4. ↑ Mirdita etnologjike dhe administration. In: Bashkia Mirdita. Retrieved August 19, 2017 (Albanian).
  5. ↑ a b c Komuna Selita (ed.): Profili i Komunës Selitë . Cango, November 2009 ( document on issuu.com [accessed August 19, 2017]).
  6. ↑ a b Michael Schmidt-Neke , Örjan Sjöberg: Population structure . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (=  Südosteuropa-Handbuch ). tape VII . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-525-36207-2 , pp. 464-490 .
  7. ↑ a b Ines Nurja: Censusi i popullsisë dhe banesave / Population and Housing Census - Lezhë 2011 . Results Kryesore / Main Results. Ed .: INSTAT . Pjesa / Part 1. Adel Print, Tirana 2013 ( instat.gov.al [PDF; accessed April 14, 2019]).
  8. ↑ a b c Report "Shqipëria Tjetër: Kurbneshi, një qytet fantazmë" by Marin Mema , broadcast in June 2011 on Top Channel ( copy on Info Arkiva ; Kurbneshi, një qytet fantazmë on YouTube )
  9. ↑ Akademia e Shkencave e RPSSH (ed.): Fjalor enciklopedik shqiptar . Tirana 1985.