Fort Batenstein
Fort Batenstein was a fort and trading post established by the Dutch on the Gold Coast in 1656. It was situated near Butre. The fort was ceded with the entire Dutch Gold Coast to Britain in 1872.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Macabe5387, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Butre and Busua.
Butre
Village
Photo: Macabe5387, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Butre is a village in the Ahanta West district, district in the Western Region of Ghana. Butre contains the Fort Batenstein Castle.
Busua
Photo: Tom Lubbe, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Busua is a beach resort and fishing village in the Ahanta West District of the Western Region in Ghana, about 30 kilometers west of the regional capital, Sekondi-Takoradi in the Gulf of Guinea.
Dixcove
Town
Dixcove is a coastal village and a fishing community in the Ahanta West district, a district in the Western Region of South Ghana, located approximately 35 km west of the regional capital of Sekondi-Takoradi. Dixcove is situated 4½ km southwest of Fort Batenstein.
Fort Batenstein
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: Dutch fort and trading post on the Gold Coast
- Categories: fort, castle, building, tourism, and historic site
- Location: Ahanta West Municipal District, Western Region, Ghana, West Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
4.82428° or 4° 49′ 27″ northLongitude
-1.91726° or 1° 55′ 2″ westElevation
33 metres (108 feet)Open location code
6CPWR3FM+P3OpenStreetMap ID
way 487662760OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Turkish—“Fort Batenstein” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “巴腾斯坦堡”
- Chinese: “巴騰斯坦堡”
- Chinese: “柏廷斯坦堡”
- Dutch: “Fort Batenstein”
- Egyptian Arabic: “حصن باتنشتاين”
- French: “fort Batenstein”
- French: “Fort Batenstein”
- German: “Butre”
- German: “Fort Batenstein”
- German: “Fort Batensteyn”
- Hausa: “Sansanin Batenstein”
- Hebrew: “מצודת בטנסטיין”
- Italian: “Fort Batenstein”
- Polish: “Fort Batenstein”
- Tatar: “Батенстейн кальгасы”
- Turkish: “Batenstein Kalesi”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Batenstein”. Photo: Macabe5387, CC BY-SA 4.0.