Narsarmijit

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Narsarmijit (inhabitant of the plain)
Frederiksdal (Friedrichstal)
Narssarmijit
Narsarmijit (1900)
Narsarmijit (1900)
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Nanortalics
Geographical location 60 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  N , 44 ° 39 ′ 55 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 0 ′ 18 ″  N , 44 ° 39 ′ 55 ″  W
Narsarmijit (Greenland)
Narsarmijit
Residents 66
(January 1, 2020)
founding 1824
Time zone UTC-3

Narsarmijit [ ˌnɑsːɑmːijitˢʰ ] ( German  Friedrichstal , Danish Frederiksdal , Kitaamiusut Narsarmiut until 2018 officially Narsaq Kujalleq [ nɑsːɑq kujaɬːɜq ], the old spelling Narssarmijit or Narssaĸ Kujatdleĸ ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the district Nanortalik in the kujalleq .

location

Nowadays, Narsarmijit is the southernmost place in Greenland and is therefore roughly on the same level as Oslo or Saint Petersburg . It is located on the eastern bank of the Narsap Saqqaa . The nearest towns are Tasiusaq (23 km north-northwest) and Aappilattoq (27 km northeast). The district capital Nanortalik is 35 km to the west-northwest.

history

Narsarmijit on a painting by Carl Koldewey from 1874

In 1824 the Moravian Brethren founded the Friedrichsthal mission station in Narsarmijit. It was the fourth mission station of the Moravians after Neu-Herrnhut , Lichtenfels , and Lichtenau and the place was chosen by Konrad Kleinschmidt in 1822 . The German and Danish name refers to King Friedrich VI. from Denmark . The missionaries lived in a Greenlandic house for the first two years before they were able to move into a meeting house and church in 1826, which they had built on the ruins of a medieval Grænlendingar farm. Wilhelm August Graah described the mission station in 1828 as the most beautiful settlement in Greenland. As early as 1826 there were 209 baptized, 75 unbaptized and 35 baptized as well as 120 children who belonged to the mission station. In 1834 there were already 330 baptized. In the 1880s, however, 53 pagans were still baptized, as Tunumiit repeatedly immigrated to the south coast of Greenland .

The place grew from the middle of the 19th century by fishing for cod . In 1900 the Moravians left Greenland. Subsequently, Narsarmijit as a former mission station, like Alluitsoq, became a separate parish, although both were only living spaces. In 1906 Jens Chemnitz brought ten Faroese sheep to Narsarmijit, which marked the cornerstone of sheep farming in South Greenland . From 1911 Narsarmijit was part of the municipality of Pamialluk.

In 1919 there were 157 residents in Narsarmijit who lived in 31 well-built houses. The wooden church had an altar, a sermon chair and an organ as well as a steeple. It measured around 100 m² and had a classroom that was 21 m². There was also a pastor's apartment with three rooms, a shed and a goat shed. It was also made of wood, had a shingle roof and also measured 100 m². There was also a meeting house, which was atypical at the time, as well as a depot house in order to be able to supply the large population even in winter despite the remoteness. Among the residents were 31 hunters, a fisherman, the pastor, two catechists and a midwife. They lived almost exclusively from the seal hunt.

In 1919 a bridge was built over the small river in the village. Around 1920 Narsarmijit was the largest residential area in the country and around three times the size of the associated Udsted Pamialluk , which was even given up in 1923. In 1925 the community was dissolved and Narsarmijit became part of the newly established community of Aappilattoq after Aappilattoq was founded as Udsted in 1923. In 1937 Narsarmijit was transferred to the municipality of Nanortalik, whereby the request arose that Narsarmijit itself would be elevated to Udsted, which was rejected decades earlier because of the poor port conditions. In 1947 the topic was discussed again, but rejected again because of the poorer fishing results compared to Aappilattoq. In 1950 the residential area became part of the new municipality of Nanortalik . Only in 1960, when 207 people lived in Narsarmijit, the place was promoted to Udsted. In 1970, 226 people lived there.

A LORAN station (Nuussuaq) was located at Narsarmijit from 1934 to 1987 . The Icecan cable used from 1961 to 1990 also ran via Narsarmijit from Iceland to Canada .

In 2009 Narsarmijit became part of the Kujalleq municipality . In November 2018, the place was officially renamed Narsarmijit, whereas previously it only bore this name in common parlance.

List of colonial employees until 1921

The following missionaries and pastors worked in the Frederiksdal parish until 1921. From 1914 to 1917 the pastor in Lichtenau was responsible.

economy

Today Narsarmijit lives mostly from fishing and hunting. The area is rich in hats , ringed seals and harp seals . The fish factory, which was built in the 1980s but was badly damaged by a storm in 2010, is currently (2017) out of operation. In it was previously from Uuaq and cod salted fish produced and the roe of lumpfish and Black Crow berries , blueberries and angelica processed.

Infrastructure and supply

The five-meter-deep harbor consists of a 1997 built pier . To the east is the Narsarmijit heliport , which makes the place accessible by air. A Pilersuisoq branch supplies the residents with goods.

The Narsarmijit power plant has been in operation since 2010. The waterworks has been securing the drinking water supply via the Narsap Kuua river since 2015 . Sewage is discharged into the fjord and the bottom.

Development

The school of Narsarmijit teaches students from the 1st to the 7th grade in the school building from 1966. The service building houses a laundry, sanitary facilities, a workshop, a meeting room and the kindergarten. There is also a village office in a building dating from 1962, a church, an infirmary, a fire station, a football field and a workshop that needs to be demolished. The old assembly building now serves as a museum.

Sons and daughters

  • Amandus Petrussen (1927–1993), politician (Atassut), catechist, pastor, judge, writer and poet

Population development

The population of Narsarmijit is falling sharply. Since the late 1970s, the place has lost over 70% of its population.

panorama

Narsarmijit (2017)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ↑ a b Louis bobe : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. History . 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. 557 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ a b c Narsaq Kujalleq in Den Store Danske
  4. ^ A b Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab District. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Bopladsen Frederiksdal . 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. 531 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  5. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 54 f .
  6. ↑ a b c d Narsarmijit at kujalleq2017.odeum.com
  7. ↑ Bygden Narsaq Kujalleq skifter navn in Sermitsiaq
  8. ↑ Louis Bobe : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. History. Danske Embedmænd ved Julianehaab . 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. 558 f . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  9. ↑ Population of Narsarmijit 1977–2020 at bank.stat.gl