Brandenburger Gold Coast

Brandenburger Gold Coast
Brandenburger colony (1682–1701)
Prussian colony (1701–1721)
1682–1721
Location of Groß-Friedrichsburg within Gold Coast, modern-day Ghana, marked by the black dot and flag.
Inside Groß-Friedrichsburg. View in February 1884.
Capital Groß Friedrichsburg
Languages German, Akan
Religion Protestantism, Roman Catholicism, Akan religion
Political structure Colonial
Elector of Brandenburg, later King of Prussia
   1640-1688 Frederick William
  1688-1713 Frederick I
  1713-1740 Frederick William I
History
   Foundation of Brandenburg African Company May 1682
  Renamed Prussian Gold Coast Settlements 15 January 1701
   Sold to Netherlands 1721
Today part of  Ghana

The Brandenburger Gold Coast, later Prussian Gold Coast, was a part of the Gold Coast. The Brandenburg colony existed from 1682 to 1720, when king Frederick William I of Prussia sold it for 7200 ducats to the Dutch Republic.

Brandenburger Gold Coast

Since May 1682 a chartered company from the margravial electorate of Kur-Brandenburg, the core of the later Prussian kingdom, the Brandenburg African Company (Kurfürstliche Brandenburgisch-Afrikanische Compagnie), founded 1682, established a small West African colony consisting of two Gold Coast settlements on the Gulf of Guinea, around Cape Three Points in present Ghana:

German governors during the Brandenburger era

Prussian Gold Coast

On 15 January 1701 the small colony was renamed Prussian Gold Coast Settlements, three days before the Elector of Brandenburg and Duke of Prussia crowned himself King in Prussia. From 1711 to April 1712 the Dutch occupied Fort Dorothea again.

In 1717 the colony was physically abandoned by Prussia, so that 1717–1724 John Konny (or in Dutch Jan Conny) was able to occupy Groß Friedrichsburg, from 1721 in opposition to Dutch rule.

In 1721 the rights to the colony were sold to the Dutch, who renamed it Hollandia, as part of their larger Dutch Gold Coast colony.

Governors during the Prussian era

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Coordinates: 4°45′13″N 2°04′01″W / 4.75361°N 2.06694°W / 4.75361; -2.06694

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