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The German Colony (Hebrew: המושבה הגרמנית, HaMoshava HaGermanit) is a neighborhood in Jerusalem, established in the second half of the 19th century as a German Templer Colony in Palestine.
Hoffman established a German colony in Jaffa (today part of Tel Aviv-Yafo) in 1869.It was built at the site of a former settlement by United States Christians, which had been abandoned by then, for which reason the area is known today as the American-Germany colony of Tel Aviv. [5]
Templers in Wilhelma, Palestine. The German Templer Society, also known as Templers, is a Radical Pietist group that emerged in Germany during the mid-nineteenth century, the two founders, Christoph Hoffmann and Georg David Hardegg, arriving in Haifa, Palestine, in October 1868 with their families and a few fellow Templers in order to establish a colony.
Emek Refaim street, Jerusalem Historic Templer house on Emek Refaim Inscription: Eben-Ezer on the Matthäus Frank House Arabic inscription on lintel dated to 1925/1344 A.H. Emek Refaim (Hebrew: עמק רפאים, English: Valley of Ghosts) is the German Colony, a neighborhood in Jerusalem, as well as its main street.
1865 map of Jerusalem. Mishkenot Sha’ananim (Hebrew: משכנות שאננים) was the first Jewish neighborhood built outside the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, on a hill directly across from Mount Zion. [4] It was built by Sir Moses Montefiore in 1860 as an almshouse, paid for by the estate of a wealthy Jew from New Orleans, Judah ...
Jerusalem, German Colony: 1928 1928–1928 [92] [93] Jerusalem, Greek Colony: 1929 1929–1948 [92] [93] Jerusalem, Mahne Yehuda (Mahane Yehuda) 1934 1934–1948
The term German Colony can refer to: German colonial empire, the former colonies of Germany; German Colony, Jerusalem a Templer settlement; German Colony, Haifa a Templer settlement; Sarona (colony) is the German Templer settlement in Tel Aviv; American–German Colony a neighborhood in Tel Aviv
The Society for the Protection of German Immigrants to Texas, established in Mainz in 1842, sought to expand the German settlements into a colony of "New Germany" (German: Neu Deutschland). About 7400 settlers were involved. The venture proved a complete failure. There was a constant lack of supplies and land and around half of the colonists died.