Manermiut

Manermiut (resident of the peat)
Manermiut
Commune	Qeqertalik municipality
District	Aasiaat
Geographical location	68 ° 35 '56 "  N , 53 ° 7' 50"  W Coordinates: 68 ° 35 '56 "  N , 53 ° 7' 50"  W.
Residents	0 (1963)
founding	around 1850
Time zone	UTC-3

Manermiut [ maˈnɜmːiutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling Manermiut ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Aasiaat in the municipality of Qeqertalik .

location

Manermiut is located on the western end of the large island Saqqarliit 16 km southwest of Aasiaat on the Davis Strait .

history

Manermiut is first mentioned when the residential area died out due to the epidemic of 1785/86. In 1798 an attempt to catch yarn was transferred here from Qeqertarsuatsiaq , but only two years later the population died out again in a smallpox epidemic . Carl Ludwig Giesecke named Manermiut in 1810 as a winter living space. In 1821 nobody lived there. In 1829 eleven residents were counted, but in 1831 the place was deserted again. Manermiut was repopulated around 1850.

In 1860 the place received the status of an Udsted . Nevertheless, Manermiut had just 26 residents in three houses in 1915. The old apartment of the Udsteds administrator from 1866 was used by Greenlanders in 1915. Instead, there was a new apartment that had just been built in 1915. It was a half-timbered building with a wooden facade and a shingle roof. The store with provisions store from 1877 was also a half-timbered building with a wooden facade and roofing felt. The Speckhaus from 1906 was a half-timbered building with a peat wall facade and roof shingles. Another stone house used to be a forge, as a former Udsteds administrator was also a blacksmith, but it was no longer in use in 1915. The school chapel dates from 1891 and was also a half-timbered building with a peat wall facade and roofing felt. In addition to the Udsteds administrator, there was a catechist in Manermiut. The local midwife lived in Kangaarsutsiaq . The Greenlanders had seven hunters and two fishermen under themselves.

Manermiut is the place of origin of the Greenland stork family.

At the end of the 1920s a new school chapel was built and in 1932 a packing house. Several packing houses were built by 1944. In 1952 there were already 14 fishermen in Manermiut who had the largest catches in the entire colonial district. Between 1940 and 1960, between 60 and 80 people lived in Manermiut. In 1945 Grønlands Landsråd had proposed that Manermiut's Udstedsstatus be given to Killiit , which happened in 1960. Just two years later, Manermiut was completely given up.

Manermiut was a separate municipality in the colonial district of Egedesminde until 1950 . This belonged to the 2nd district electoral council of North Greenland. The place was part of the parish of Aasiaat and belonged to the upper catechetical district of the colony. After 1951 Manermiut became part of the municipality of Aasiaat .

Sons and daughters

• Abia Stork (1869–1934), National Councilor
• Mathias Storch (1883–1957), pastor, provost, writer and regional councilor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
2. ^ ^{A b c} Hother Ostermann : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Nordgrønland: Egedesminde district. De grandson Bopladser. Udstedet Manermiut . 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. 69 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
3. ↑ ^{a b} Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 121 f .