Fort Coenraadsburg

Fort Coenraadsburg
Part of Dutch Gold Coast
17th-century view on Elmina. Fort Elmina is on the left, Fort Coenraadsburg on the right.
Fort Coenraadsburg
Coordinates	5°05′04″N 1°21′03″W / 5.08444°N 1.35083°W / 5.08444; -1.35083
Site history
Built	1652 (1652)
Garrison information
Occupants	Netherlands (1652-1872)

Fort Coenraadsburg or Conraadsburg, also Fort Sao Jago da Mina, is a fort on the Dutch Gold Coast, built in 1652 to protect Fort Elmina from attacks. It was built on the site of a fortified chapel that the Portuguese had built and that the Dutch had burned to the ground in the Battle of Elmina (1637). The Dutch ceded the fort to Britain in 1872, together with the entire Dutch Gold Coast.

Gallery

Fort Coenraadsburg (published 1861)
View of Coenraadsburg from Elmina
Fort Coenraadsburg

Notes

Forts of the former European colonial powers on the Gold Coast

Brandenburg-Prussian forts	Groß Friedrichsburg Dorothea

British forts	Apollonia Metal Cross Sekondi Komenda Cape Coast Victoria Royal William Tantum Winneba James Vernon

Danish forts	Frederiksborg Christiansborg Augustaborg Fredensborg Kongensten Prinsensten

Dutch forts	Elise Carthago Ruychaver Santo Antonio Hollandia Dorothea Batenstein Witsen Orange San Sebastian Vredenburgh Elmina Coenraadsburg Nassau William Egya Amsterdam Patience Goede Hoop Crèvecoeur Singelenburgh

Portuguese forts	Santo António de Axim São Sebastião de Shema São Jorge da Mina São Francisco Xavier

Swedish forts	Batenstein Carlsborg William Christiansborg

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