List of preserved public German colonial buildings in Cameroon

The list of preserved public German colonial buildings in Cameroon deals with preserved public buildings and other preserved public buildings in the former German colony of Cameroon . Cameroon was a German colony from 1884 to 1916. Like all colonies in Germany, with the exception of German South West Africa , this was not a settlement colony . About 1000 Germans lived in the country at the time of their wedding in 1912.

place	image	Surname	construction time	function	Current usage	location
Bafut	photo	German Church Bafut		Church building	Church building
Bali castle		Bali castle	1889-1890	Colonial settlement	Village	6 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ N, 10 ° 40 ′ 0 ″ E
Buea		Bismarck fountain	1899	Fountain	Fountain
Douala		Nachtigal Hospital	1896	hospital	Administration building (including police)	4 ° 2 ′ 26 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 4" E
Douala		Bonakuamuang fireplace	Late 19th century	Waterworks	unused	4 ° 3 ′ 16 "N, 9 ° 42 ′ 24" E
Douala		Police station	around 1900	Police station	Administration building	4 ° 2 ′ 33 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 8" E
Douala		Gravenreuth monument		Monument ( Karl von Gravenreuth )	monument
Douala		German government building	1891	Administrative headquarters		4 ° 2 ′ 32 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 7" E
Douala		Villa Mandessi Bell	1904-1910	Residential building		4 ° 2 ′ 42 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 19" E
Douala		Woermann house	1905	Residential buildings		4 ° 2 ′ 44 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 10" E
Douala		Woermannhaus		Commercial building ( Woermann line )		4 ° 2 ′ 45 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 10" E
Douala		King Bell Palace	1905	palace	Private home	4 ° 2 ′ 36 "N, 9 ° 41 ′ 14" E
Douala		Nachtigal monument		Memorial ( Gustav Nachtigal )	monument
Edéa		Edea Bridge	1911	Railway bridge	unused	3 ° 48 '24 "N, 10 ° 7' 32" E
Mbalmayo		German Church Mbalmayo		Church building	Church building: Cathedral Saint-Rosaire in the diocese of Mbalmayo	3 ° 30 ′ 57 "N, 11 ° 30 ′ 50" E

See also

• List of preserved public German colonial buildings in Kiautschou
• List of preserved public German colonial buildings in Togo
• List of preserved public German colonial buildings in Samoa

Web links and sources

Commons : German colonial architecture in Cameroon  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Relics of the German colonial era , Deutschlandfunk
• Wolfgang Lauber (Ed.): German Architecture in Cameroon 1884–1914. Krämer, Stuttgart: 1988, ISBN 978-3-7828-1495-9 .

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