Ludwigsburg was a tobacco plantation on Sumatra’s East Coast attacked by Acehnese raiding parties in 1876, one of three plantations — alongside Glen Bervi and Tamaram — struck during the wave of Acehnese incursions into the northern Gouvernement Oostkust van Sumatra in the mid-1870s. Its name — a German toponym — reflects the prevalence of German planters and plantation managers among the early European estate community on Sumatra’s East Coast.
Context
Ludwigsburg lay in the northern plantation belt adjacent to the frontier with Acehnese territory. The attacks on Ludwigsburg, Glen Bervi, and Tamaram in 1876 occurred as the Atjeh War, begun in 1873, pushed armed Acehnese parties across the colonial frontier into the plantation districts. At Tamaram, the most severely affected of the three, the manager was wounded and an assistant killed. The Kedjoeroean of Bohorok openly collaborated with the raiders and fled with his followers to the Alas lands afterward.
The raids prompted the Sultan of Langkat — whose territory lay along the frontier — to take an active role in resisting the Acehnese incursions; he was elevated from Radja to Sultan in 1887 in recognition.
See Also
- Acehnese raids on East Sumatra
- Glen Bervi
- Tamaram
- Expedition against Tamiang (1893)
- Sultan of Langkat
- Langkat
- Gouvernement Oostkust van Sumatra
- 1876
- 1887
Source
Van Oerbosch tot Cultuurgebied: Een Schets van de Beteekenis van de Tabak, de Andere Cultures en de Industrie ter Oostkust van Sumatra, by Dr. T. Volker (Medan: Deli Planters Vereeniging, 1928), pp. 44–47. Delpher Digital Library, reference DLP-76. Universiteitsbibliotheek Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, shelfmark 09383.