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28-505: New Germany can refer to: Locations [ edit ] New Germany, KwaZulu-Natal , South Africa New Germany, Minnesota , United States New Germany, Nova Scotia , Canada New Germany State Park , Maryland, United States New Germany, Ohio , United States See also [ edit ] Neues Deutschland ( New Germany ), German newspaper Das Neue Deutschland ( The New Germany ), World War II propaganda Nueva Germania ,

56-617: A German woman, Maria Brose, returned to Africa to the mission station Königsberg in Natal – where he married his bride in 1878. Another gifted African student who had started out with violin lessons and was to follow in Kuhn's footsteps to Ducherow and then the theological seminary in Berlin was one Jan Sekoto. Apparently not adapting well to the Pomeranian climate, however, he returned early to

84-570: A district in Paraguay Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title New Germany . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=New_Germany&oldid=1081520561 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Place name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

112-667: A generation since the immigrants did not maintain contact with Germany and had no vision of a distinctly German community. The arrival of a Berlin missionary ensured that the language and religion would continue for the time being. Pastor Carl Wilhelm Posselt (1815–85) agreed to care for the congregation in New Germany, where he consecrated the first chapel of the Berlin Missionary Society in South Africa on 19 November 1848. He conducted mission work among

140-555: A reduced pace. After 1945 the missionaries had to deal with the decolonisation of Africa and especially with the apartheid government. At all times the BMS emphasized spiritual inwardness, and puritanical values such as morality, hard work and self-discipline. It proved unable to speak and act decisively against injustice and racial discrimination and was disbanded in 1972. The BMS sent its first missionaries to South Africa in 1833. Missionaries with ties to Berlin had been working there with

168-573: A school, seminary, workshops, mill and printing press; and from here BMS influence spread throughout the Transvaal . In 1880 BMS missionary Johannes Winter established a mission station at Thaba Mosego, the vanquished capital of the Pedi king, Sekhukhune , who had been defeated the year before by an army of British, Boer and Swazi soldiers. In 1889 a prominent native evangelist, Martinus Sewushane, and around 500 of his followers decided to secede from

196-695: A station at Pniel on the Vaal River in 1845, which would be at the centre of South Africa's diamond discoveries in 1869–70. Further missionaries arrived in 1836–7, with Jacob Ludwig Döhne setting up BMS stations Bethel and Itemba amongst the Xhosa in a part of the Eastern Cape then known as Kaffraria . Other stations followed but on-going frontier conflict was a constraint. During the Frontier War of 1846 to 1847, these stations were abandoned and

224-713: A station of the Rhenish Mission . A second missionary field in China arose after Germany declared Shandong to be within their sphere of political and colonial influence in 1896. Later the BMS in China merged with the German East Asia Mission ( German : Deutsche Ostasienmission), which in 1972 was integrated into the still existing Berlin Missionary Endowment ( German : Berliner Missionswerk). The latter keeps well established ties with

252-520: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages New Germany, KwaZulu-Natal Prior to 1 December 2023, vehicle registration plates in New Germany started with NU - N for Natal , U for Upper Highway; although New Germany does not geographically form part of the Upper Highway Area which extends between Kloof and Botha’s Hill . Natal's first German community owed its existence to

280-855: The London Missionary Society and Rhenish Missionary Society , making South Africa an obvious choice, with the initial objective being to set up a mission to the Tswana . Upon arriving in the southern Free State , and on advice from the London Mission Society's G.A. Kolbe at Philippolis , it was decided instead to establish a mission amongst the Korana at a spot on the Riet River , which they named Bethanien , in September 1834. From Bethanien missionaries founded

308-667: The Osnabrück - Bremen district accepted his offer and arrived in Natal on 23 March 1848. They were settled in two adjacent areas roughly 10 km inland from Port Natal and called their new homes Neu-Deutschland (New Germany) and Westville . Bergtheil's cotton scheme failed after the first two crops were ravaged by bollworm. Furthermore, the ginning machinery he had ordered from England never arrived. The settlers soon abandoned cotton in favour of market gardening, and when their five-year contracts with Bergtheil ended many did not renew them. The fledgling community may well have foundered within

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336-925: The Presbyterian Church in the Republic of Korea (est. 1953) and the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan and co-operates with the United Church of Christ in Japan and the Church of Christ in China . The Bethel Mission had established a missionary presence in Tanganyika , German East Africa , inviting the BMS in 1903 to take over a number of its stations. These missions declined after World War I (when Germany lost all its colonies and German missionaries in such areas were deemed undesirable) and their work

364-631: The Advancement of evangelistic Missions amongst the Heathen (German: Berliner Missionsgesellschaft or Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der evangelischen Missionen unter den Heiden ) was a German Protestant ( Lutheran ) Christian missionary society that was constituted on 29 February 1824 by a group of pious laymen from the Prussian nobility . It was a successor organisation, in Berlin , to

392-455: The BMS station at Botshabelo as a teacher. Sekoto's son Gerard Sekoto , born at Botshabelo in 1913, would later emigrate to Europe, obtaining French citizenship and achieving considerable renown as an artist. The BMS also sent workers to China in 1869 during the late Qing Dynasty , but it was not before 1882 that the Society officially declared Canton as its mission field, inheriting

420-571: The Berlin Missionary Society and form the Lutheran Bapedi Church (LBC), asking Winter to join them. By 1900 there were more than thirty six stations and nearly 30,000 converts in the region. The Berlin missionaries in South Africa, particularly Alexander Merensky , Knothe , Trümpelmann , Schwellnus and Eiselen , contributed to the study of African languages , producing Bible translations and hymnals. It

448-509: The Zulu farm labourers and in the Valley of a Thousand Hills , and in 1854 established a second station, Christianenberg, for this purpose. He also taught Scripture in the little German school which the settlers had established. In 1852 the congregation was briefly moved to Emmaus because of famine on the coast and declining numbers of settlers. Bergtheil succeeded in stemming the flow of Germans into

476-692: The immigration scheme of an English Jew, Jonas Bergtheil, who arrived in Natal in 1843 and established the Natal Cotton Company three years later. Bergtheil saw the potential of European settlement along the coast and approached the British colonial office for immigrants. When first the British and then the Bavarian governments rejected his plans, he turned to the Kingdom of Hanover for support. Thirty-five peasant families (about 188 people) from

504-679: The interior, and in 1854 Posselt returned to New Germany where he continued as missionary and pastor until his death in 1885. The town consists of an industrial area bounded on two sides by Otto Volek Road and Shepstone Road, as well as a large hilly residential area whose main arterial roads are Sander Road and Glamis Avenue (eastern boundary), and Bohmer Road and Bosse Street (western boundary). Neighbouring suburbs are Padfield Park, Manors, Wyebank , and Clermont . Berlin Missionary Society The Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) or Society for

532-476: The missionaries sought safety in the neighbouring British colony of Natal . Missionaries Karl Wilhelm Posselt and Wilhelm Güldenpfennig founded the first BMS station in Natal which they named Emmaus , with further stations being established in the years that followed, including the Christianenberg and Hermannsburg Missions. Missionaries Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grützner started work in

560-531: The missionary party in 1835. Niklaas Koen, a “ Khoikhoi ”, was sent by the BMS to Germany in 1875 to further his education at a high school at Ducherow in Pomerania and afterwards to study for the ministry at the Berlin Missionshaus , where he adopted a German version of his name, Klaus Kuhn . Kuhn qualified as a missionary (he also took lessons as a violinist) and, after becoming engaged to

588-538: The missionary training efforts of Pastor Johannes Jaenicke  [ de ] (of the Bohemian - Lutheran congregation in Berlin) which had prepared missionaries since 1800 for work with other missionary societies including the London Missionary Society . The BMS began the training of its first missionaries in 1829, with assistance from missionary societies in Pomerania and East Prussia . An important director

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616-635: The next 28 years. However, from 1962 it began granting independence to its mission churches which, in time, became amalgamated with other Lutheran mission churches in the region and formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa . The BMS focused on providing schooling and bringing the gospel to people in their own language. Hence the Society's missionaries were often at the forefront of publishing Bible translations, dictionaries and grammars in indigenous languages. It

644-766: The north eastern part of the South African Republic in 1860, their first station being at Gerlachshoop . There were unsuccessful early attempts to evangelise the Swazi and in Sekhukhuneland . Merensky sought refuge amongst his Christian converts in the Middelburg district and founded the station at Botshabelo (“city of refuge”) in 1865 – which soon became the most important station of the Berlin Society in South Africa. Here were established

672-629: Was Hermann Theodor Wangemann , who directed the Society from 1865 until his death in 1894. He first traveled to South Africa shortly after becoming director and went a second time in 1884. He wrote a system of regulations addressing fundamental questions of missionary work, the 1881 Missionsordnung der Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der Evangelischen Missionen unter den Heiden zu Berlin . The Society supported work in South Africa , China and East Africa . The Berlin Missionary Society

700-552: Was as part of this process that Africans, duly trained and sometimes salaried, were accepted into the Society as teachers, catechists and lay-preachers, the so-called Nationalhelferen or national helpers. The Tswana Catechist Richard Miles was an early example of an indigenous person fulfilling this role at the Mission Station at Bethanie in the Southern Free State. Miles traveled to the interior with

728-547: Was at Botshabelo that the missionary R.F Güstav Trümpelmann , with the invaluable assistance of his erstwhile student, Abraham Serote , translated the Bible into Sepedi (Northern Sotho) . The publication in 1904 by the British and Foreign Bible Society of this combined effort was the first complete Bible in an indigenous language. Their work was interrupted by the Anglo Boer War , during which BMS missionary Daniel Heese

756-716: Was murdered by members of the Bushveldt Carbineers , an irregular regiment of the British Army . Both World Wars, when access to funding became severely limited, caused even greater disruption. Moreover, after World War II the Society's Berlin headquarters fell within the Soviet Zone of Occupied Germany . In 1961 the BMS established a branch in West Berlin , which remained in contact with its only remaining missionary field, namely in South Africa, for

784-536: Was one of four German Protestant mission societies active in South Africa before 1914. It emerged from the German tradition of Pietism after 1815 and sent its first missionaries to South Africa in 1834. There were few positive reports in the early years, but it was especially active 1859–1914. It was especially strong in the Boer Republics . World War I cut off contact with Germany, but the missions continued at

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