Hermannsburg (South Africa)
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| Coordinates | 29 ° 3 ′ S , 30 ° 48 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| District | Umzinyathi | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA | ||
| local community | Umvoti | ||
| founding | August 2, 1854 | ||
Hermannsburg is a German settlement in KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa . The German School Hermannsburg is located there.
history
Hermannsburg (Natal) was in 1854 as a mission station by 16 missionaries and colonists of the Hermannsburg Mission of Hermannsburg in Germany's Lower Saxony founded. It originated in the area of the Perseverance farm bought by the missionaries . The mission station was called Neu-Hermannsburg .
The missionaries from Germany arrived on August 2, 1854 with the mission ship Candace in the port of Port Natal (today Port of Durban ) after the original plan to reach the Oromo in Ethiopia had failed. Wilhelm Posselt , a missionary from the Berlin Mission who worked with Zulu and Germans near Durban, encouraged the Hermannsburg missionaries to begin a mission in the then independent Kingdom of Zululand .
Since the Zulu king Mpande prevented European missionaries from entering his empire, the Hermannsburg missionaries decided to set up a mission station in the British colony of Natal close to the border with Zululand. To do this, they bought farmland.
In 1856 the missionaries founded today's German School Hermannsburg, which belongs to the Lutheran Church in Southern Africa .
After the mission station's church, built in 1860, soon proved to be too small, Superintendent Karl Hohls laid the foundation stone for today's Peter and Paul Church on April 1, 1868 . The church served both German and Zulu-speaking Lutherans until a separate church was built for the Zulu-speaking Evangelical Lutheran congregation in 1925.
The mission house was the first building to be built in 1854 and has served as a museum since 1981. It has been an official part of the South African Museum Association in KwaZulu-Natal since 1990.
One of the most famous citizens of the city was the theologian Wolfram Kistner . Even today (as of November 2019) numerous German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran pastors in southern Africa come from Hermannsburg or have enjoyed their training there. These include Reinhard Keding , Burgert Brand and Erich Hertel .
Web links
- German School Hermannsburg (English)
- Missionshaus-Museum ( Memento from March 24, 2002 in the Internet Archive )
- Evangelical Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony
Individual evidence
- ↑ ELCSANT: Evangelical Lutheran Peter and Paul Congregation in Hermannsburg . at www.elcsant.org.za (English)
- ^ ELCSA (NT): Welcome to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (NT) . at www.elcsant.org.za (English)
- ↑ EKD: Evangelical Lutheran Peter and Paul Congregation Hermannsburg ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ). www.ekd.de
- ^ KwaZulu-Natal Branch of the South African Museums Association: Hermannsburg Museum . On www.museumsofkzn.co.za (English)