Hatzfeldhafen
Coordinates: 4 ° 24 ' S , 145 ° 13' E
Hatzfeldhafen (also Hatzfeldthaven or Hatzfeldhaven) is a small place on the northeast coast of the Madang Province of Papua New Guinea . The name probably goes back to the German diplomat Paul von Hatzfeld zu Trachenberg (1831–1901). The spelling “Hatzfeldhafen” is based on the German Colonial Lexicon , although “Hatzfeldthafen” was more common at the time of the German colonial administration.
Geographical location
Hatzfeldhafen is located on the Bismarcksee southeast of Podbielski Point, a place that is named after the German officer and politician Victor von Podbielski . The district capital Bogia is also nearby . Hatzfeldhafen has an airport with the IATA code HAZ.
history
The port with its two offshore islands was discovered in 1885 by the German explorer Otto Finsch and initially named "Samoa port". The settlement was founded on December 21, 1885 as the second station of the New Guinea Company after Finschhafen and received a post office in February 1888. On March 13, 1888, the 8 m high tidal wave of a tsunami was observed near Hatzfeldhafen , which was triggered by the eruption of the volcano on Ritter Island .
One problem of the location initially remained the constant conflicts with parts of the local population. The cause was unfortunate conditions on the company plantation of Hatzfeldhafen, which proceeded with punitive actions against the locals. This conflict escalated between May 22nd and 27th, 1891 with bloody attacks, whereby first two missionaries of the Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft , Wilhelm Scheidt and Friedrich Bösch, who stood innocently between the fronts, were murdered. In addition, the station assistant of the New Guinea Company , Bodo von Moisy , fell victim to this attack on May 26, 1891 . In addition to the murder of other local employees of the consortium during this time, the company labor overseer Ludwig Müller was killed on August 14 in Tombenam near Hatzfeldhafen. After these events, the post office was closed on November 9, 1891, and the entire station was abandoned on November 18, 1891. It was only a few years later that it was re-established, this time by the Catholic Steyler Mission .
Trivia
One of the approximately 800 languages in Papua New Guinea , which was spoken by 1,390 people in 2003, is called the Hatzfeldthafen language or Mala.
See also
literature
- Heinrich Schnee (Ed.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume 2, p. 44, Leipzig 1920
- Joseph Hiery (Ed.): The German South Seas 1884-1914. A manual. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn 2001, ISBN 3-506-73912-3
- Traugott Farnbacher: Taking responsibility for the community. Beginnings, development and perspectives of congregations and offices of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Papua New Guinea , LIT Verlag Berlin-Hamburg-Münster 1999, ISBN 382583848X
- Udo Max Hollrung: Vegetation conditions of Hatzfeldhafen. in: The German protected area in the South Pacific. Globus 54, 1888, pp. 305-311, 321-325