Tegguida-n-Tessoum

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Location of Tegguida-n-Tessoum in Niger

Tegguida-n-Tessoum (also Teggida n'Tessoum , Tigué Dan Tessoum , Tiguidan Tessoum ; on Tuareg Tǝgǝedda n-Tǝseṃt ) is a small oasis settlement in the Azawak area in Niger , about 80 km north of the municipality of Ingall , in the clay plain of Talak . It mainly consists of clay houses with flat roofs.

population

The village had 786 people in 153 households in the 1988 census, 410 people in 76 households in the 2001 census, and 489 people in 80 households in the 2012 census.

economy

The economy in Tegguida-n-Tessoum is mainly based on the production of salt , which differs in its way from the salt pans in the Fachi , Séguédine and Bilma oases because it is even more expensive and laborious. Similar to the oases mentioned, water is evaporated, but in circular holes.

Saline soil in the area is first mixed with saline spring water in larger basins. Then the resulting brine is poured into neighboring basins. This process is repeated several times to ensure a high salt concentration. As a result of further evaporation, a reddish salt is finally deposited in small basins, which in addition to some Glauber's salt mainly contains table salt . This mass is formed into salted breads and sold as cattle salt in Ingall or on markets further south or exchanged for millet, sugar or other goods.

Attractions

On the eastern edge of the settlement there is a recent courtyard mosque, although the year of construction cannot be dated . The total area of ​​the complex covers 273 square meters, of which 167 square meters are in the inner courtyard and 70 square meters in the prayer room building. The inner courtyard houses a one-aisled outbuilding with a flat roof, in which the local madrasa is housed. In the southeast corner of the mosque courtyard is an Adhān pedestal. The Betraumgebäude is designed as a cross-system and has a rectangular, eccentric asked, mihrab -Vorbau. The interior is characterized by two transversal ships. What is noticeable about this complex is the large burial ground that surrounds the mosque on all sides. In this context, the clay mosque researcher Dorothee Gruner speaks of a symbol for the hostility to life in this landscape, in which only the laborious extraction of salt makes permanent settlement possible.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Karl-G. Prasse, Ghoubeïd Alojaly, Ghabdouane Mohamed: Dictionnaire Touareg - Français (Niger): M – Ž . Museum Tasculanum Press, Copenhagen 2003, ISBN 87-7289-844-5 , p. 569 .
  2. ↑ Recensement Général de la Population 1988: Répertoire National des Villages du Niger . Bureau Central de Recensement, Ministère du Plan, République du Niger, Niamey March 1991, p. 24 ( ceped.org [PDF; accessed January 31, 2018]). www.ceped.org ( Memento of the original dated January 31, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ceped.org
  3. ^ Répertoire National des Communes (RENACOM). (RAR file) Institut National de la Statistique, accessed November 8, 2010 (French).
  4. ↑ Répertoire National des localites (ReNaLoc). (RAR) Institut National de la Statistique de la République du Niger, July 2014, p. 16 , accessed on 7 August 2015 (French).
  5. ↑ Photos of the salt pans in Tegguida-n-Tessoum
  6. ^ Dorothee Gruner: The clay mosque on the Niger. Documentation of a traditional building type . Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05357-3 , pp. 370 .

Coordinates: 17 ° 26 '  N , 6 ° 39'  E