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History of Darjeeling Tea - the German Connection
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There are 3 parts and you can click on the links below to read the stories.
This is just a start of the first Part
History of Darjeeling Tea - the German Connection ~ Part I
Posted on July 16, 2015 by Niraj Lama
On a cold winter day in January of 1842 two young German missionary families, the Wernickes and Stolkes arrived to Darjeeling, a densely forested and sparsely populated remote region of the Himalayas. Only seven years previous, the area had been taken on lease by the British colonialists from the Kingdom of Sikkim.
As Joachim Stolke, Dorothea Stolke, Sophie Wernicke and Johann Andrea Wernicke fended for their lives in impoverished and dangerous conditions in those early years, they could have hardly imagined the legacy they would leave behind one day which had nothing to do with saving the natives from perdition. Darjeeling became world famous because of an important product called tea which would change the landscape for ever more.
Tracing an incredible story these Germans, and later their children, cleared forests off hillsides, engaged local workers and set up some of the best known tea gardens of Darjeeling. One of the missionary children was the first to turn this experiment into a profitable tea plantation and eventually into a successful industry.
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