Puhoi
| Puhoi | ||
| Geographical location | ||
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| Coordinates | 36 ° 31 ′ S , 174 ° 40 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-AUK | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Auckland | |
| District | Auckland Council | |
| Ward | Rodney Ward | |
| Residents | 493 (2008) | |
| height | 13 m | |
| Post Code | 0994 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 9 | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 Church of St Peter and St Paul in Puhoi |
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| Remarks | ||
| belonged to Rodney District until October 2010 | ||
Puhoi is a village north of Auckland on the North Island of New Zealand , which has been dominated by German-Bohemian settlerssince 1863. The village was administratively assigned to the Rodney District until October 2010and has belonged to the Auckland Council since the political reorganization of November 1, 2010.
Origin of name
The word “ pūhoi ” in the Māori language stands for slow , weaker or dull . The motif of the name was the slowly flowing Puhoi River , on which the village lies.
Geography and place name
Puhoi is located approximately 38 km north of downtown Auckland and can be reached via the New Zealand State Highway 1, which runs north . The nearest town is Orewa around 8 km south-southeast.
population
In the 2006 census , 4041 inhabitants were given for the statistical unit Tauhoa-Puhoi , which includes the area around Puhoi with a north-western extension. In 1996 there were 2928 people and in 2001 there were 3339 inhabitants. In 2008, 493 people in 173 households lived in Puhoi itself.
history
Puhoi was founded on June 29, 1863 by a group of Bohemian immigrants from the Egerland under the leadership of Martin Krippner from Mantau, a German-Bohemian village near Chotieschau . Krippner himself immigrated to New Zealand with his family in 1860. Under the promise of 40 acres of free land for every adult, plus 20 acres for every child between the ages of 5 and 18, a total of six groups came from 1863 to 1876 with a total of just over 200 settlers. They spoke the Egerland dialect, which belongs to the northern Bavarian dialect group. Today in New Zealand these settlers and their descendants, who at least until the First World War saw themselves as Germans and were officially designated as such, are called "Bohemians" after their regional origin. The reason for this is the strong anti-German resentment in New Zealand during the two world wars, which made it necessary to keep silent about German origins. As a result of this resentment, the "German Hotel" founded before 1876 was renamed the "Puhoi Hotel". Puhoi was now called "Bohemian Settlement".
today
In addition to the Church of St Peter and St Paul , which is listed as a protected monument in Category I by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust , the village has a school, hotel, Centennial Hall and shop, all of which have their origins in the period Have colonization. In the building of a Catholic primary school that was in use between 1923 and 1964 there is now a museum. Among the town's smaller commercial enterprises is a cheese factory that markets its nationally known products under the town's name. Some of the descendants of the first settlers still live in Puhoi today .
The customs of the Egerland culture, the music, the Egerland dialect and the costumes are still preserved and carried on today by the Bohemian Association and thus by direct descendants of the Krippner, Podlesak, Schischka, Schollum, Straka, Turnwald, Wech and Wenzlick families. The genealogy of the immigrant families is maintained by the Bohemian Association .
Web links
- History of Puhoi . Puhoi Historical Society Inc,accessed September 5, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Māori Dictionary = Puhoi . Auckland University of Technology , accessed May 9, 2019 .
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed September 18, 2017 .
- ↑ QuickStats About Tauhoa-Puhoi . Statistics New Zealand , accessed August 28, 2011 .
- ^ Puhoi Structure Plan 2010 . (PDF 1.7 MB) Rodney District Council , archived from the original on January 27, 2015 ; accessed on May 9, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
- ↑ Wilfried Heller: The "Bohemians" in New Zealand - an ethnic group? In: Communications of the Austrian Geographical Society . 147th year Vienna 2005, p. 7-36 .
- ^ Church of St Peter and St Paul (Catholic) . New Zealand Historic Places Trust , accessed August 28, 2011 .
- ↑ Peter E Rodgers : Puhoi Historic . Retrieved September 5, 2014 (article is from PUHOI Press January 2001).
- ^ Puhoi Bohemian Museum . Puhoi Historical Society Inc , archived from the original on June 3, 2014 ; accessed on May 9, 2019 (English, original website no longer available).
- ^ Puhoi Valley . Puhoi Valley Cheese , archived from the original on December 18, 2007 ; accessed on January 14, 2016 (English, original website no longer available).
- ^ The Bohemian Association of New Zealand . Accessed March 19, 2018 (English).