Qassimiut

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Qassimiut (residents of the assembly place)
K'agssimiut
Qassimiut (1906)
Qassimiut (1906)
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Qaqortoq
Geographical location 60 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 47 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  W Coordinates: 60 ° 47 ′ 0 ″  N , 47 ° 10 ′ 0 ″  W
Qassimiut (Greenland)
Qassimiut
Residents 20
(January 1, 2020)
founding 1834
Time zone UTC-3

Qassimiut (2017)

Qassimiut [ ˈqasːimiutˢʰ ] (according to the old spelling K'agssimiut ) is a Greenlandic settlement in the district of Qaqortoq in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Qassimiut is the westernmost settlement of the municipality of Kujalleq and is a little remote on an island right by the ocean. The Ikersuaq (Bredefjord) flows south . The nearest towns, Qaqortoq and Narsaq, are each 61 km away in a south-easterly and easterly direction.

history

Qassimiut was founded as Udsted in 1834 because the place offered a safe haven and was well suited for hunting humpback whales .

From 1911 Qassimiut was a separate community, to which the residential areas Saqqarmiut , Qeqertarsuaaraq and Qarmat still belonged. It was part of the 5th regional electoral district of South Greenland.

In 1919 there were 128 people living in Qassimiut. They lived in 21 apartment buildings. There was also an apartment for the Udsteds administrator. The building was erected in 1850, measured 80 m² and had three rooms. The store was 45 m² in size and there was a bacon house built in 1852 with a provision store in the village. All three buildings were made of stone. There was also a cooperage and a powder house in the village. The chapel was around 40 m² in size and had an 11 m² classroom on the upper floor, in which a trained catechist taught. Among the residents were 27 hunters and two fishermen. They lived mainly from the seal hunt.

In 1938 a new shop and warehouse were built. In 1940 a church was built that was designed by Helge Bojsen-Møller . In addition, a salt house and a fish house were built later. In 1960 there were already 199 people in Qassimiut. In 1970 the number had dropped to 173.

From 1950 to 2008, Qassimiut was part of the Qaqortoq municipality . Since 2009 the village has belonged to the Kujalleq municipality .

economy

Cod fishing dominates in Qassimiut . The fish stocks on site are good. The local fish factory has recently been renovated.

Infrastructure and supply

Qassimiut has a port on a peninsula in the south of the village. The place is connected to the air traffic via the heliport Qassimiut . Within Qassimiut, a road leads from the port through the village to the heliport.

The garbage in Qassimiut is disposed of with an incinerator. Nukissiorfiit supplies the town with electricity through a power station renovated in 2010 and drinking water through the treatment of water from a small lake northwest in a water works that was modernized in 2009. Oil stoves ensure the heat supply.

Development

There are around 40 houses in Qassimiut, many of which are vacant due to high levels of migration. The first nursing home in Greenland was built here, but it has been closed since 2016 due to mold. There is a Pilersuisoq branch, a church, a school, a meeting building and a sanitary building. Consideration is given to closing the school due to a lack of students. The old school building houses a workshop and the village office. There are numerous old buildings in Qassimiut, many of which are classified as worthy of preservation.

Sons and daughters

Population development

Qassimiut is the place in Greenland that has suffered the most from depopulation. Over the past 40 years, 87% of the population has shrunk. While Qassimiut was the fifth largest of the eleven villages in South Greenland in 1977, it is now the second smallest village in the entire country after Kangerluk .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
  2. ↑ 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. 556 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ^ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Julianehaab district. Bopladser i Julianehaab district. Udstedet Kagssimiut . 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. 494 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
  4. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 35 f .
  5. ↑ a b c Qassimiut at kujalleq2017.odeum.com
  6. ↑ Qassimiut in Den Store Danske
  7. ↑ Population of Qassimiut 1977–2018 at bank.stat.gl