Kastellet Dansborg, bygget i 1620 som en solid fæstning.(Foto 1998). Trankebar var dansk koloni fra 1620-1845 og blev administreret af Ostindisk (Asiatisk) kompagni som et handelsselskab. Kolonien skulle tjene som basis for handelen, og de indfødte indere havde kun interesse som billig arbejdskraft under slavelignende forhold. Formålet var simpelthen at opnå størst mulig profit. Anderledes med Trankebarmissionen, der på foranledning af den danske konge, Frederik IV, startede med udsendelse Den Lutherske Missions to pionermissionærer fra Tyskland, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg og Heinrich Plütschau, som ankom til Trankebar 1706. Missionen havde kun ét formål: 'at tjene det indiske folk med evangeliets glæde'. Derfor kan det ikke undre, at arbejdet i mange perioder blev præget af problemer og modstand, såvel fra Danmark som i kolonien The Citadel Dansborg, built in 1620 like a solid fortress. (Photo 1998). Tranquebar was a Danis
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Description
The Citadel Dansborg, built in 1620 like a solid fortress. (Photo 1998). Tranquebar was a Danish Colony from 1620-1845, administrated by the East Indian (Asiatic) Company as a trading company. The Colony served as a base for trade, and the national Indians were only regarded as a cheap labour force under slave-like conditions. The purpose was simply maximum profit. Different with the Tranquebar Mission, promoted by the Danish King, Frederik IV, and starting with sending of the 2 pioneer missionaries of The Lutheran Mission, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg and Heinrich Plütschau from Germany. They arrived to Tranquebar 1706. The Mission had only one Aim: 'to serve the Indian people with the Joy of the Gospel'. No wonder, the mission work in many periods was dominated by resistance and problems, both from Denmark and the Colony administration.
Danmission Kirke Mission Church Mission DIAS00248 Trankebar Tranquebar Danish Missionary Society Dansk Missionsselskab DMS Ostindisk Kompagni Asiatisk Kompagni East Indian Company Trankebarmissionen The Tranquebar Mission Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg Heinrich Plütschau Kastellet Dansborg The Citadel Dansborg TELC Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church Indien Syd India South Kolonitiden The Colonial Period
Time Period
1998
Place
Asia Indien Syd India, South Indien India Tamil Nadu Trankebar Tranquebar
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