Gare (Tanzania)

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Coordinates 4 ° 47 ′  S , 38 ° 21 ′  E Coordinates: 4 ° 47 ′  S , 38 ° 21 ′  E
Basic data
Country Tanzania

region

tanga
District Lushoto
height 1500 m
Residents 16,179
Catholic mission in Gare during colonial times (1906–1918)
Catholic mission in Gare during colonial times (1906–1918)

Gare is a city in Tanzania , East Africa .

location

Gare is located in the Tanga region, surrounded by a basin of the Usambara Mountains , around 1,500 meters above sea level. The next larger town is the district capital Lushoto .

history

At the time of the German East Africa colony, there was a Catholic mission station of the same name in Gare, also called Neu-Cöln , which was founded in 1897 by South African Trappists . At the station, which consists of a church, school and residential buildings, mainly coffee and wine were grown.

Gare is the birthplace of the German politician Kai-Uwe von Hassel , who lived here in 1913 as the son of Captain a. D. the protection force and plantation owner Theodor von Hassel was born.

Web links

  • Carl Uhlig: Gare, in: Heinrich Schnee (Ed.); Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon , Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 678.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Fitzner: German Colonial Handbook. Volume 1, 2nd ext. Ed., Hermann Paetel, Berlin 1901, p. 291.