Qoornoq

Qoornoq (narrowing)
	K'ôrnoĸ
	Qoornoq (2010)
Commune	Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq
District	Nuuk
Geographical location	64 ° 32 '0 " N , 51 ° 5' 40" W Coordinates: 64 ° 32 '0 " N , 51 ° 5' 40" W.
Residents	0 ; (since 1973/2010)
Time zone	UTC-3

Qoornoq (2010)

Qoornoq [ ˈqɔːnːɔq ] (according to the old spelling K'ôrnoĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the district of Nuuk in the communeqarfik Sermersooq .

location

Qoornoq located on a small island, only by a barely rinsed surface from the north-eastern coast of the Qoornup Qeqertarsua ( Danish Bjørneøen ) is separated, in the strait Qoornup Sullua . It is 41 km to the southeast to Kapisillit and 50 km to the southwest to Nuuk .

history

At Qoornoq there are traces of the Paleo-Eskimos , who were the first inhabitants of Greenland, as well as remnants of the westernmost settlement of Vestribyggð the Grænlendingar . In 1952, an old Norse farm with seven buildings from the late Middle Ages was excavated here.

Qoornoq was founded in the mid-19th century as Udsted on the site of an old residential area. From 1911 Qoornoq was a separate community in the colonial district of Godthaab, to which the residential areas Uummannaq and Qassinnguit still belonged. It was part of the 8th Provincial Council constituency of South Greenland.

In 1918, 102 people lived in ten houses in Qoornoq. Among them were the Udsteds administrator, a trained catechist and a midwife. There were also 17 hunters and two fishermen. There was a stone-built apartment for the Udsteds administrator from 1854, an approximately 41 m² large wooden provisions store with a shop from 1847, a stone bacon house built in 1914 and a stone powder house. The school chapel of Qoornoq was built in 1880 as a peat wall house and measured almost 50 m². Around 1918 it was replaced by a new building. The population mainly hunted reindeer, seals and foxes. It is said that the Greenlanders in Qoornoq were overly European, with many having blue eyes, blond hair and being extremely tall.

In 1924 a drying house was built. In 1928 a new Udsteds administrator's apartment was built. In 1930 a school was built in Qoornoq. Qoornoq was a very suitable place for fishing. That's why a very large fish house was built. In 1952 nowhere in Greenland was so much fish caught as in Qoornoq. There was an average of 16,727 kg of fish per fisherman. In Qoornoq there are still the tracks of the Qoornoq X-press , a hand-pushed factory railway with a track width of 600 mm, which was used to transport fish in the village.

From 1950 Qoornoq belonged to the new Nuuk community . By 1950 the population rose to 156 people. In 1960 there were already 227 inhabitants. Nevertheless, Qoornoq fell victim to the concentration policy of the 1960s and in 1970 only 65 people lived in the village. In 1974 Qoornoq was officially given up. However, between 1979 and 2009 a number of one to four people were counted as residents. The place is very well preserved as the buildings are used as holiday homes by the Greenlanders in summer.

Sons and daughters

Frederik Lynge (1889–1957), politician, writer and teacher
Frederik Nielsen (1905–1991), writer, translator, linguist, teacher, director and state councilor
Peter Nielsen (1905–?), Interpreter, translator, judge and regional councilor
Andreas Nielsen (1910–1993), lawyer and regional councilor
Manasse Mathæussen (1915–1989), kayaker

Web links

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

Individual evidence

↑ Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq
↑ Hans Christian Gulløv: From Middle Ages to Colonial Times . In: Meddelelser om Grønland (= Man & Society ). tape 23 . Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 978-87-635-1239-8 , p. 338 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Udstedet Kôrnoĸ . 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. 252 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).
↑ ^a ^b Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 75 .
↑ Grönland's Qoornoq X-press ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the BDEF Report 3/2009, p. 11 (.pdf) @1@ 2

↑ Population of Qoornoq 1977–2018 at bank.stat.gl

^ Qoornoq in Den Store Danske

[1] Map with all official place names confirmed by Oqaasileriffik , provided by Asiaq

[2] Hans Christian Gulløv: From Middle Ages to Colonial Times . In: Meddelelser om Grønland (= Man & Society ). tape 23 . Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 1997, ISBN 978-87-635-1239-8 , p. 338 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[3] Ole Bendixen : Beskrivelse af Distrikterne i Sydgrønland: Godthaab district. Bopladser i Godthaab district. Udstedet Kôrnoĸ . 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. 252 ff . ( Digitized in the Internet Archive ).

[jcm-4] Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder and bopladser i Grønland 1901–2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 75 .

[5] Grönland's Qoornoq X-press ( Memento of the original from March 28, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the BDEF Report 3/2009, p. 11 (.pdf) @1@ 2

[6] Population of Qoornoq 1977–2018 at bank.stat.gl

[7] Qoornoq in Den Store Danske