Māngungu Mission House

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Māngungu Mission House from 1838, after renovation from 1972–1977

The Māngungu Mission House is one of the oldest surviving settlement houses in New Zealand . It was the second oldest mission station in the country and the second place in New Zealand where the Treaty of Waitangi was signed on February 12, 1840 by another 70 chiefs of the Māori .

geography

The Māngungu Mission House is located in Māngungu , 2.5 km west of Horeke and a good 7 km northeast of Rawene , directly at the wide confluence of the Mangamuka River , Orira River and Waihou River . The house, along with a memorial and a small church, is on a hill about 100 m from the shore.

The site is accessible from New Zealand State Highway 1 via an asphalt stretch via Horeke or from New Zealand State Highway 12 near Taheke via a gravel road.

history

Māngungu Mission House before its destruction on August 19, 1838 (based on a drawing by Emma Hobbs , 10-year-old daughter of John Hobbs )

In 1827 the second mission station of the Wesleyan Mission in New Zealand was established in Māngungu . A mission opened in Kaeo in 1821 was abandoned in 1826 due to a lack of acceptance among the Maori population. The station in Māngungu for the Wesleyan Mission became the most important base and training station for missionaries in New Zealand. In 1930 the station consisted of three houses with classrooms, a carpenter's workshop, a bath house, garden and an orchard. Over the years it has become an important religious and social educational center for the church and for the region, while the timber industry has made the region economically successful. On August 19, 1838, the main house was destroyed by fire.

Since the main house of the mission station was destroyed by fire in 1838, the missionary at the time, John Hobbs, had the mission house rebuilt between the end of 1838 and 1839 for the then head of New Zealand, Nathaniel Turner . Hobbs and his family moved into the house in early 1840. Under Hobbs' direction, the station had over 500 members at the time. Hobbs was also the one on behalf of the Deputy Governor William Hobson , the Māori - Chiefs of the region to sign the Treaty of Waitangi invited and served on 12 February 1840 as translator and mediator between Hobson and 70 chiefs present.

Between 2000 and 3000 Māori present and between 400 and 500 chiefs of various ranks gathered in front of the Māngungu Mission House , in front of which 70 of them signed the second copy of the contract. Thus, the meeting was the largest of its kind on the treaty and, in recognition of its importance , was honored with a visit to the Māngungu Mission House on February 12, 2015 by the then Governor General of New Zealand, Jerry Mateparae .

After the timber industry in the region brought together, the mission station in Māngungu was closed in 1855 and the house was moved to Onehunga, a district of Auckland , where it was used by the mission church until 1921. The house then went into private ownership and remained there until it was bought by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1972 and returned to its original location in Māngungu and renovated. The house has been open to visitors as a museum since 1977. The cemetery remains on the property and is believed to be one of the oldest cemeteries of its kind in New Zealand. In addition, there is an old small wooden church and a memorial on the property, which is supposed to remember all the missionaries who directed the mission station in Māngungu .

List of Historic Places

The house was added to the list of listed buildings in Category I on September 1, 1983 .

literature

  • New Zealand Historic Places Trust (Ed.): Mangungu Mission House . Wellington (English, information sheet).
  • The Wesley Historical Society (Ed.): Return to Mangungu . July 1990, ISSN  0110-8522 (English, brochure).

Web links

Commons : Māngungu Mission House  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mangungu Mission House . S.  1 .
  2. ↑ Return to Mangungu . 1990, p.  1 .
  3. ↑ Return to Mangungu . 1990, p.  2 .
  4. ^ Treaty of Waitangi : Queens rep visits historic Mangungu Mission . In: New Zealand Herald . NZME. Publishing Limited , January 17, 2015, accessed January 18, 2017 .

Coordinates: 35 ° 21 ′ 17.1 ″  S , 173 ° 34 ′ 11.6 ″  E