Qerrortusoq

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Qerrortusoq (who has many piles of stones)
Assaqutaq K'errortussoĸ
Avssaĸutaĸ
Commune Qeqqata communia
District Sisimiut
Geographical location 66 ° 54 '58 "  N , 53 ° 28' 44"  W Coordinates: 66 ° 54 '58 "  N , 53 ° 28' 44"  W.
Qerrortusoq (Greenland)
Qerrortusoq
Residents 0
(1970)
founding 1778
Time zone UTC-3

Qerrortusoq [ ˌqɜˈχːɔtːusɔq ] (according to the old spelling K'errortussoĸ ; also Assaqutaq (Avssaĸutaĸ) [ ˈasːɑqutɑq ]) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Sisimiut in the Qeqqata communia .

location

Qerrortusoq is located on a small island in the Amerloq fjord eight and a half kilometers east of Sisimiut .

history

Qerrortusoq and Assaqutaq are actually two different settlements. Qerrortusoq was founded in 1778 as a whaling lodge under the Holsteinsborg colony about one kilometer west-northwest on the mainland in a tiny bay. From 1789 the lodge was independent. During the smallpox epidemic in 1801, almost the entire population died and the lodge had to be abandoned. From 1805 Qerrortusoq was re-established as Udsted under Holsteinsborg. From 1881 to 1909, however, the yield was so poor that there was no trading activity during this time and the place was de facto just a place to live, as no Udsteds administrator resided in Qerrortusoq.

In 1909 Den Kongelige Grønlandske Handel returned to the place, but built new trading buildings on the small island called Assaqutaq, which was one kilometer away. From 1911 Qerrortusoq was a separate municipality in the colonial district of Holsteinsborg, which belonged to the 11th district electoral district of South Greenland.

In 1918 135 people lived in Qerrortusoq, but only 9 in Assaqutaq. At that time there were sixteen houses in Qerrortusoq as well as a wooden chapel that was 28 m² in size, only 1.80 m high (the door was only 1.30 m high) and extremely spartan - the altar was a table, the prayer stool a Wooden box and the baptismal font a table with a water barrel on it. There was also a small stone school building that was 18 square meters. All trading buildings were in Assaqutaq. There stood the Udsteds administrator's apartment, which also housed the shop, was made of wood, was 57 square meters and, apart from the shop, consisted of only one room. Another wooden building was the provisions store with a bacon house. There was also a stone powder house. All three buildings were from 1909. In addition to the Udsteds administrator and a trained catechist, a midwife also worked in the village. The hunters in Qerrortusoq hunted seals almost exclusively.

In the 1920s, the residents of Qerrortusoq moved to Assaqutaq. The place name was officially taken away, but the residents continued to call their new place of residence Assaqutaq. A new school was built there, a wooden chapel in 1931 and later a 256 m² fish house. In the 1940s, between 109 and 131 people lived in Qerrortusoq. In 1950 Qerrortusoq became part of the new municipality of Sisimiut . In 1952 the fishermen caught 108.7 t of fish, which is 5.2 t per fisherman. In 1960 89 people still lived in the village and in 1969 Qerrortusoq was abandoned.

List of colonial employees

The following persons were responsible for Qerrortusoq as trade assistants or Udsteds administrators.

  • 1778–1785: Niels Larsen Lunde
  • 1785–1786: Søren Egtved
  • 1786–1787: Niels Larsen Lunde
  • 1787–1789: Søren Egtved
  • 1789–1790: Immanuel Arøe
  • 1790–1791: Niels Christian Mathiesen
  • 1791-1793: Isaak Lyberth
  • 1793–1794: Nikolaj Daniel Muus
  • 1794–1796: Mads Hvass Mørch
  • 1796–1800: Christen Heiberg
  • 1800-1801: TG Kragh
  • 1801–1803: David Werner Heiberg
  • 1803–1804: Arent Christopher Heilmann
  • 1804-1806: David Fog
  • 1806–1812: Andreas Christian Wolf
  • 1812–1821: Christian Alexander Platou
  • 1821–1828: Johan Anton Lund
  • 1828–1829: Edvard Emil Meyer
  • 1829–1831: Ove Valentin Kielsen
  • 1831-1835: Boh Olufs
  • 1835–1836: Johan Peder Engholm
  • 1836–1837: Emanuel Joachim Balling
  • 1837–1838: Peter Hanning Motzfeldt
  • 1838–1841: Frederik Waldemar Arntz
  • 1841–1843: Emanuel Joachim Balling
  • 1843–1845: Carl Ludvig Myhre
  • 1846–1848: Lars Jensen
  • 1848–1850: Peter Ludvig Wessel Brown Platou
  • 1850-1853: Hans Elberg
  • 1853–1855: Gerhardt Andreas Christen Christian Motzfeldt

Sons and daughters

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: Holsteinsborg 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. 93 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Holsteinsborg District. Bopladser i Holsteinsborg district. Udstedet Kerrortussoĸ . 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. 74 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. 96 f .