Qaqortoq

Qaqortoq / Kitaa

Qaqortoq pronunciation / i ( dän: Julianehåb [ julia ː ː nəho ʔb ] )? , Founded in 1775 by Anders Olsen, today is the largest city in South Greenland. Qaqortoq belongs to the municipality Kujalleq. 3297 residents live in the urban area (2012 ). Until the formation of the Commune Kujalleq on 1 January 2009 Qaqortoq was an independent municipality with 3,490 inhabitants belonged to the next Qaqortoq several small settlements and two reindeer and thirteen sheep farms.

Generally

Qaqortoq 's College training center with high school, trade school and " people." Jobs offer, among other things, the municipality, the shipyard and the only tannery Greenland, the Great Greenland Garveri. In a second operating part of the Great Greenland A / S, the seal-skins are processed into ready-made clothing and marketed. A collection contains the more classically oriented clothing such as parkas and other traditional-style, mainly for the domestic market. In a second seal clothing is sold, which is a high fashion standards requirements. In the tannery worked in 1999, approximately 25 to 30 employees, in Skinning about 22 to 25 At this time, Great Greenland was next to the fishing industry is the second largest employer in the town.

At the market square in the harbor there can be found next to the oldest fountain in Greenland still some over 200 years old buildings from the colonial period (including a museum ). In the entire city there are traces of the years 1993/1994, initiated by the local artist Aka Høegh project, see " Sten og Mensch " ( "Stone and Man" ). 18 artists from the Nordic countries have edited the existing road Granite walls or sculptures designed, which were placed in the open.

Qaqortoq is landing point of the submarine cable Greenland Connect.

Coat of arms

Description: In a double-sided silver -curved blue stake in a silver scale in confused colors are over a silver anchor.

Symbolism: The crest Qaqortoqs shows a balance, symbolizing the establishment by the merchant Anders Olsen. The blue stripe in the center represents the current flowing through the city flow represents the crown stands for Queen Juliane Marie, named after the Qaqortoq. The anchor shows the importance of the sea and to also stand for hope.

People

  • Angu Motzfeldt (born 1976 ), singer-songwriter
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