Narsaq

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Narsaq (plain)
Nordprøven (the north trial )
Narssaĸ
Narsaq (2009)
Narsaq (2009)
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Narsaq
Geographical location 60 ° 54 '44 "  N , 46 ° 2' 49"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 54 '44 "  N , 46 ° 2' 49"  W.
Narsaq (Greenland)
Narsaq
Residents 1,346
(January 1, 2020)
founding 1830
Time zone UTC-3

Narsaq [ ˈnɑsːɑq ] (according to the old spelling Narssaĸ ; Danish Nordprøven ) is a Greenland city ​​in the district of Narsaq in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Narsaq lies at the end of the Qajuuttap Nunaa peninsula . North of this runs the Ikersuaq (Bredefjord), south of the Tunulliarfik . Off the coast, the Narsap Ikerasaa strait separates the island of Tuttutooq (Langey). Narsaq is - as the place name suggests - on a larger plain, but directly behind it the mountains rise up to almost 1400 m. The closest locations are Qaqortoq (21 km south), Igaliku (35 km east) and Qassiarsuk (39 km northeast). The abandoned shepherd's settlement of Narsarsuaaraq is 11 km to the northwest .

history

The area around Narsaq was settled by Europeans as early as the Middle Ages. A little to the north, the ruins of a large courtyard and a church were found by the river.

Narsaq was settled in 1830. In 1883 the place was raised to Udsted .

From 1911 Narsaq was a separate community, which still included the residential areas Niaqornaq , Tullerunnat , Qanngui and Igaliku . A little north of Narsaq was the Narsaaraq residential area with six residential buildings, which, however, was incorporated over time due to the growth of Narsaq and was already considered to belong to Udsted at that time. Two kilometers to the south-east there was also a small outlying settlement with a fishing station with a salt factory, in which cod and halibut were processed. The municipality of Narsaq was part of the 5th district electoral council of South Greenland.

In 1919 162 people lived in Narsaq. They lived in 20 Greenland houses. The Udsteds administrator's apartment was built in 1883, was built of stone and measured 59 m². There was a shop in the attic. There was a stone bacon house from 1887 that was a good 50 m² in size. There was also a powder store in Narsaq. The school chapel at that time measured around 65 m² and had double doors that integrated the classroom into the chapel if required. Inside there was an altar with a large cross, a kneeling bench and a sermon chair. The chapel was later moved within the village. Among the residents of Narsaq were 27 hunters, nine fishermen, the Udsteds administrator, a fish master, a midwife and a catechist. The population lived mainly from the seal hunt. A few also ran cattle.

Housing development in Narsaq with the museum in the foreground (2014)

In 1926 Narsaq received a church designed by Pavia Høegh . A doctor's apartment was built in the 1930s. Fox breeding began around 1940 in Narsaq, which had previously been practiced in Nuuk and Qaqortoq . In addition, Narsaq received his slaughterhouse during this time. In the first half of the 20th century, Narsaq was the largest udstes in the country. In 1930 299 people lived in Narsaq and in 1947 there were already 434. In 1950, Narsaq was made the capital of the Narsaq community . It was not until 1953 that Narsaq received city rights. In the 1960s the hospital was built. Narsaq has grown rapidly since the 1950s. Since 2009 Narsaq has been part of the Kujalleq municipality .

economy

Narsaq lives from fishing, but also from agriculture on the surrounding farms. The city has the only slaughterhouse in the country, but has also had a brewery and a fish factory since 2006, for example. Narsaq thus represents a center of Greenlandic food production, which is also reflected in the existence of the Inuili food school , which trains cooks, bakers and butchers, for example. There is another vocational school in Narsaq. Mining could generate additional income in the future.

Infrastructure and supply

Narsaq has a larger port for shipping and the Narsaq heliport for air traffic. An area south of the city is being reserved for a possible airfield, but this would become obsolete with the construction of Qaqortoq Airport .

Nukissiorfiit supplies Narsaq with electricity through the hydroelectric power station in Qorlortorsuaq . The water is supplied via various rivers that flow through the city and whose water is treated in the waterworks.

Development

Church (2006)

The Narsap Atuarfia teaches about 230 students. There is a retirement home in Narsaq. A Brugseni and a Pilersuisoq branch offer shopping opportunities .

The chapel from 1914 and the church from 1926 are listed buildings. A number of other buildings, often museum buildings of the Narsaq Museum from the 19th and early 20th centuries, are classified as worthy of protection or conservation.

Town twinning

sons and daughters of the town

Population development

The population of Narsaq ranged from 1700 to 1800 for a long time. However, in the last ten years the population has decreased by a fifth.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ↑ Torbjørn Ydegaard: vandreture i Grønland . Lindhardt og Ringhof, 2019, ISBN 978-87-26-09503-6 , pp. 50 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ a b Narsaq at groenlandskreuzfahrt.de
  4. ^ A b c Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 39 ff .
  5. ^ A b Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab District. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Udstedet Narssaĸ . 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 2 . C. A. Reitzel Boghandel, Copenhagen 1921, p. 498 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ↑ a b c Narsaq at kujalleq2017.odeum
  7. ↑ Vinabæir at akureyri.is
  8. ↑ Nuestros hermanos esquimales at lavodegalicia.es
  9. ↑ Population of Narsaq 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl