Yaoundé station
The Yaoundé Station was a scientific and military outpost in the Cameroon hinterland on the northern rainforest border. The city of Yaoundé later developed around the station .
history
The establishment of the station is the most important result of the expedition led by Kund and Tappenbeck to set up a research station in the Kamerunggebiet between 1886 and 1889. After the expedition passed the area in 1888, the decision to build the station was made in February 1889. This took place right next to the village of the influential Ewondo boss Esono Ela . The German explorer Curt von Morgen first reached the station on November 30, 1889 and provided a detailed description of the condition at that time. He named an elevated courtyard surrounded by crew sheds and a lower-lying area with houses for Europeans, sickrooms for Africans and storage rooms for expeditions. In the distance there is a meteorological observation house and a fenced-in place with an open market hall . Work is being carried out on cattle stalls. Later a palisade wall was built.
During the first few years there was no permanent secure connection from the coast to the station. This only changed from the mid-1890s. From 1889 to 1895 Georg August Zenker was station manager in Yaoundé. In the course of colonial expansion, the station was converted into a military station in May 1895 under the direction of Hans Dominik . In 1896 Ernst von Carnap-Quernheimb took over the management. From here the military conquest of the northern part of the protected area took place until 1903.
In 1903 the station was incorporated into the civilian administrative structure of the colony and a district office was created.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Uwe Jung: «… Quatre sales enfants métisses…» - Colonization par adaptation? Le cas de Yaoundé. , 2012
- ^ Rochus Schmidt : Germany's colonies. Volume 2, Berlin: Verlag des Verein der Buchfreunde Schall & Grund, 1898, p. 107f.