Château 1

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District
Château 1
Coordinates 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 13 ° 31 '  N , 2 ° 6'  E
Basic data
Country Niger

Capital District

Niamey
Arrondissement Niamey I
ISO 3166-2 NE-8
Residents 135 (2012)

Château 1 (also: Château I ) is a district ( French : quartier ) in the Arrondissement Niamey I of the city of Niamey in Niger .

geography

Street scene on avenue du Fleuve Niger in Château 1 (2017)

Château 1 is located in the Plateau district in the center of Niamey. The district is located in a plateau with a sand layer more than 2.5 meters deep, which allows better infiltration than in other parts of the city. The surrounding neighborhoods include Plateau 2 in the north, Issa Béri in the northeast and Corniche Yantala in the south.

history

The district takes its name from Niamey 's first water tower of the same name (the French word château d'eau means water tower), which began operations here in 1940. The European quarter of Niamey was in Plateau at that time. After Niger's independence from France in 1960 until the 1970s, there were still many western residents in the city, for whom western shops, such as bread, jeans and T-shirts, existed in Château 1. The first art dealers came in the early 1980s. Many artisans, including Wodaabe in the beginning , who had come to Niamey since the 1984 drought, owned shops in Château 1 and lived in the nearby settlement of Cases Allemandes . From 1987 Tuareg smiths from the Agadez region settled in the district. Their influx increased when tourism in the Agadez region collapsed due to the Tuareg rebellion in the 1990s . In the late 1990s, Tuareg blacksmiths from the Tahoua region and Hausa antiques dealers were added.

population

At the 2012 census, the neighborhood had 135 inhabitants living in 22 households.

Infrastructure

There is a high concentration of craft shops by the water tower and along the avenue du Château d'Eau. More than 300 artisans work in Château 1, most of them Tuareg blacksmiths. There are also around 20 art dealers.

Web links

Commons : Château 1  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Audrey Boucksom: Arts "touristiques" en Afrique et consommateurs occidentaux. Le cas de l'artisanat d'art au Niger . Thèse de doctorat. Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 2009, p. 51–53 ( tel.archives-ouvertes.fr [PDF; accessed April 26, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Hamadou Issaka, Dominique Badariotti: Les inondations à Niamey, enjeux autour d'un phenomène complexe . In: Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 263 , September 2013, p. 384 ( journals.openedition.org [accessed April 21, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b National Repertoire des Localités (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 715 , accessed on August 7, 2015 (French).
  4. ↑ Arouna Hamidou Sidikou : Niamey . In: Les Cahiers d'Outre-Mer . No. 111 , September 1975, p. 206 ( persee.fr [accessed May 5, 2019]).
  5. ↑ Audrey Boucksom: Bijouterie touareg modern et échanges trans-Saharan . In: Tara F. Deubel, Scott M. Youngstedt, Hélène Tissières (eds.): Saharan Crossroads: Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa . Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne 2014, p. 93 .
  6. ↑ Jolijn Geels: Niger . Bradt, Chalfont St Peter 2006, ISBN 1-84162-152-8 , p. 110 .