German Templer colonies in Palestine
The German Templer colonies in Palestine were the settlements established in Ottoman Palestine and Mandatory Palestine by the German Pietist Templer movement in the late 19th and early 20th century. During and shortly after World War II, these colonies were depopulated, and its German residents deported to Australia.
German colony in Haifa, 1875.
The remains of Templer buildings of Sarona in HaKirya, Tel Aviv
Templer Cemetery in the German Colony, Jerusalem
The German Colony was established in Ottoman Haifa in 1868 as a Christian German Templer Colony in Palestine. It was the first of several colonies established by the group in the Holy Land. Others were founded in Sarona near Jaffa, Galilee and Jerusalem.
German Colony, Haifa
German colony in Haifa, 1875
German colony of Haifa
View down from the Bahá'í Gardens at the top of the German Colony.