Sankt Paulidorf
| Sankt Paulidorf | ||
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| Coordinates | 41 ° 13 ′ S , 173 ° 1 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-TAS | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Tasman | |
| District | Tasman District | |
| Ward | Moutere-Waimea Ward | |
| Residents | few | |
| height | 35 m | |
| Post Code | 7175 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 3 | |
Sankt Paulidorf used to be a village of German immigrants in the Tasman District on the South Island of New Zealand .
geography
The village was originally located about 6.5 km north of Upper Moutere and about 22 km northwest of Nelson , in the valley of the Moutere River . Today the small settlement Harakeke is located there .
history
The first German settlers came in 1843 with the Sankt Pauli in the rural area of Nelson and were the first German settlers in New Zealand at all. They came from northern Germany and the Rhineland and unfortunately reached the coast three days before the so-called Wairau turmoil , a military conflict between Māori and British settlers in which 22 British settlers and 4 Māori were killed. Arthur Wakefield , the founder of Nelson, was among those killed . Despite the conflict, the newcomers founded the Sankt Paulidorf settlement in the valley of the Moutere River in 1843 .
Since the Schachtstal , which they named, was constantly exposed to flooding, Sankt Paulidorf had to be abandoned after just over a year. The settlers settled elsewhere in the Nelson region, in the rest of New Zealand and also in Australia . Some founded the village of Sarau , today's Upper Moutere and the smaller settlements of Rosental and Neudorf around 1850 together with other German settlers . However, some of the settlers who had gone to Australia later returned to New Zealand and settled in Houhora and Awanui in the north of the North Island .
See also
Web links
- Marc Bennier : The Emigration of the Bennier Family . Ancestry.com , accessed September 1, 2017 .
- James N. Bade : Germans - Early Settlement . In: Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand . Ministry for Culture & Heritage , March 25, 2015, accessed September 1, 2017 .
- German Settlement in Nelson . TheProw.org.nz,accessed September 1, 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed September 1, 2017 .
- ^ Upper Moutere School - Our Story, Our Place . Living Heritage , accessed September 1, 2017 .