American–Germany Colony

The American–German Colony (Hebrew: המושבה האמריקאית–גרמנית‎, HaMoshava HaAmerika'it–Germanit) is a residential neighborhood in the southern part of Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. It is located between Rechov Eilat and Rechov haRabbi mi-Bacherach and adjoins the Neve Tzedek area.

Founded in the 19th century by the American Protestant, Christian Restorationism movement, led by George J. Adams and Abraham McKenzie. They and more colonists from Maine had arrived on 22 September 1866 in Jaffa. They founded the American Colony, named Amelican (آمليكاث in Arabic), or Adams City in English. They erected their wooden houses from prefabricated pieces, which they had brought with them. However, diseases, the climate, the insecure and arbitrary treatment by the Ottoman authorities, made many colonists willing to remigrate to Maine.

In 1867 and 1868 the German Peter Martin Metzler (), then leading a Protestant mission in Jaffa for the Swiss St. Chrischona Pilgrims Mission (), helped the American colonists to sell their real estate, also buying himself much of it. On 5 March 1869 Metzler sold many of the houses on to newly arriving settlers from Württemberg. In 1861 these settlers, led by Georg David Hardegg () (*1812–1879*) and Christoph Hoffmann had founded their own Christian denomination, the Temple Society. According to their faith the Templers wished to redeem the Holy Land by an active industrious lifestyle, understood by the Templers to be the symbolic reconstruction of the Temple.

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