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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."

Johannes 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 ...

 
  • 1970 the ghanaian presbyterian church leader Albert L. Kwansa visited Gerlingen to search for information about background, youth and surrounding of the missionary Johannes Zimmermann, who in nowadays Ghana very much honoured in the oral tradition of Kroboland's history .
  • 1972 mayor Wilhelm Eberhard travells in an oficially delegation to Zimmermann's sphere of activity in Africa.
  • 1976 the king from Manya Krobo, Nene Azzu Mate Kole (see photo on the right) comes to Gerlingen. He is one of the well-known tribal chieftains of Ghana. Together with inhabitants of Gerlingen he unveils the commemorative plaque for Zimmermann (see below) in front of Petruskirche (St. Peter's church).
  • 1989 king Nene Azzu Mate Kola invites Gerlingen's mayor Sellner together with a delegation to his 50th throne anniversary to Ghana.
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