Sissarissoq

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Sissarissoq (the one with a beautiful beach)
Sigssarigsoĸ
Commune Kujalleq municipality
District Nanortalics
Geographical location 60 ° 7 '56 "  N , 45 ° 16' 35"  W Coordinates: 60 ° 7 '56 "  N , 45 ° 16' 35"  W.
Sissarissoq (Greenland)
Sissarissoq
Residents 0
(1900)
founding 1797
Time zone UTC-3

Sissarissoq [ ˈsisːɑˌʁisːɔq ] (according to the old spelling Sigssarigsoĸ ) is a deserted Greenlandic settlement in the Nanortalik district in the municipality of Kujalleq .

location

Sissarissoq is located on the west coast of the main part of the island Nanortalik , which is about 2.5 km northeast on a small peninsula.

history

In 1778 the commercial assistant Caspar Alsbach, a grandson of Hans Egedes , settled in Sissarissoq or Nanortalik to collect bacon and furs from the Greenlanders. Sissarissoq was founded in 1797 by Johan Christian Mørch (1768–1830) and his brother-in-law and later father-in-law David Lars Emanuel Kleist (1758–1826) as a facility. The old apartment of the colonial administrator in Qaqortoq was moved to Siissarissoq for this. Many Greenlanders soon settled in the facility.

Due to better harbor conditions, Nanortalik was built on the rugged peninsula northeast in 1830 and some of the buildings of Sissarissoq were moved to where they now form the Nanortalik Museum . In 1899 Sissarissoq was finally given up entirely.

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. 557 ( digitized version in the Internet Archive ).
  3. ↑ Jens Christian Madsen: Udsteder og bopladser i Grønland 1901-2000 . Atuagkat, 2009, ISBN 978-87-90133-76-4 , pp. 51 .
  4. ^ Sabine Barth: Greenland . 4th edition. DuMont Reiseverlag, Ostfildern 2017, ISBN 978-3-7701-7307-5 , p. 150 f .