Bismarckburg (German East Africa)

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Village near Bismarckburg (German East Africa) during colonial times

Bismarckburg was the name of a place on Lake Tanganyika in the west of German East Africa . The place was named after the founder of the empire, Otto von Bismarck .

history

Bismarckburg on a map of the former German East Africa (bottom left; school atlas around 1930)

Bismarckburg was initially the administrative seat of the Bismarckburg military district of the same name , then a branch of the district office and finally, from April 1, 1913, the seat of the district office. The place was a little above Lake Tanganyika at 810 m above sea level, near a small, but insignificant port for trade (then called Wissmannhafen ). Bismarckburg owned a telegraph station of the "African Transcontinental Telegraph Co." which originated in Cape Town . During the observation period from 1908 to 1915, a weather station of the Deutsche Seewarte was active. From the founding time only ruins remain today. The present-day city of Kasanga in Tanzania ( 8 ° 28 ′  S , 31 ° 9 ′  E ) emerged from the settlement.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German Weather Service: Station list of the overseas stations. As of January 11, 2019, p. 12. (pdf)

Bibliography

  • Bismarckburg. In: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon. Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, Volume I, p. 217 ( online ).
  • Meyer's Encyclopedic Lexicon .
  • The great world atlas , Cartographic Institute Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1963.

Web links

  • Bismarckburg , Great German Colonial Atlas, Archive Guide German Colonial History

Coordinates: 8 ° 28 ′ 0 ″  S , 31 ° 9 ′ 0 ″  E