Johannes Zimmermann's bequest - "Bridge between people and cultures" |
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Wilhelm Eberhard, mayor in retirement: "It's unbelievable how people in Ghana talk nowadays still full of respect and gratitude about Johannes Zimmermann and his beneficial life's work. Who ever we met - not only the members of the hosting church, also political personalities - pay tribute to the good deeds which Zimmermann did from 1850 to 1876 and which are still to see. Seen from the angle that he had to deal with the conceivable most difficult conditions it's all the more admirable." |
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Zimmermann's operational area, the kingdom Manya-Krobo, forms
together with the kingdom Yilo-Krobo the Kroboland. It's located
southeastern in the since 1957 independent state of Ghana, is about 750
square kilometers large and has approx. 250.000 inhabitants.
What started with Zimmermann has been continued: There are forged links between Kroboland and Gerlingen, and they are indestructible. In the meantime there were delegations from Kroboland in Gerlingen and people from Gerlingen in Kroboland ... |
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