Fort Meester Cornelis
Fort Meester Cornelis was a fort and a field hill , built by the United East India Company , located near what later became Meester Cornelis , now known as Jatinegara . It was named after Cornelis van Senen .
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The area where the fort was later built was the residence of the princes of the Sultanate of Bantam in the 17th century . The place was later named after Cornelis van Senen, who in 1656 acquired a piece of land of about five square kilometers at Ciliwung 12 kilometers north of the Batavia fort . As a landowner, he was given the name Meester. The land was mainly used for silviculture. After his death, it became a military base with wide paths and a rural character.
The fort was built in 1734. In 1746 a hospital for soldiers suffering from malaria was established because the area was a little higher up and drier than the surrounding area (especially Batavia).
At the time when parts of Dutch territory were conquered by the British , General Jan Willem Janssens wrote that the fort was well armed and that if the troops were doing their duty, the fort could not be overrun. In an emergency, there are four ways of withdrawing inland.
Should the fort prove to be unsustainable, the cannons could be fastened and the rearguard under Lutzow's command burned all bridges. At 4 a.m. on August 11, 1,000 British and 1,400 Bengals under Gillespie advanced to the Molenfliet and Weltevreden. Then they advanced to Fort Meester Cornelis and captured it.
By order of the Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies of July 5, 1844 No. 25, the fort had to set up a civil and military prison. The Schulze had special supervision over the fort; The prison was intended for officers who had been sentenced to a simple prison term and were supposed to return to the camp after the expiry of the sentence, for officers who had been sentenced to a longer term, but were also to return to the camp, for officers who were against their sentence Appealed and for ordinary citizens who were sentenced to a simple sentence. For the latter, however, a special government authorization was required before admission.
In 1856 a police office was built in the old fort and next to it a prison for chain walkers . In March 1856 a part of a canary tree fell on the prison and seriously damaged it.
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- Willem Albert Terwogt: The land of Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Divorcee van de Nederlanders in East Indië . P. Geerts, Hoorn 1892.
- Femme Simon Gaastra: De geschiedenis van de VOC . Unieboek, Bussum 1982, ISBN 90-228-3838-2 .
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- ↑ Handboek der Land- en Volkenkunde, divorced, - taal, - aardrijks- en Staatkunde van Nederlands-Indië door Philippus Pieter Roorda van Eijsinga, 1841
- ^ Staatsblad van Nederlands-Indië voor het jaar 1841
- ↑ Middelburgse Courant, October 19, 1844
- ↑ Java-bode, 29 March 1856