Neuland is an Old Colony Mennonite settlement in the Corozal South East constituency of Corozal District, founded in 2011 by families primarily from Settlement 291.
Neuland is subdivided into line villages and each village has a camp number. Settlement 291 has camps 1-23. Settlement 146 has 24-39, and then Settlement 291 has 40-44 again, and then Settlement 126 has 50-59, and then Settlement 146 has 70-74 again and then Settlement 179 has 101-114.
The Mennonites of Shipyard purchased this land of 24,000 acres for $12,000,000 in 2011. At that time the entire area was dense forest that was almost entirely logged and converted to pasture land by 2018.[1]
Neuland means New Land in High German.
While Neuland has no airports, the long straight road leading to the coast has been used occasionally by drug planes.[2]
Neuland has a main road coming in from Settlement 146 from the north that they constructed themselves in 2011, and then there is a road that leaves south to the Road 78 that existed as a trail from before the Mennonites came, but was then upgraded to a proper gravel road.
In the village there's a street every mile more or less in a grid that is slightly off of the cardinal directions.
Neuland has no Fire Department, the closest Fire services are located hours away in Settlement 186 or Settlement 64.[3]
There is a lending library that the Plett Foundation helped to establish by providing books and financing.[1]
On April 24, 2023, Prime Minister, Hon. Johnny Briceño and Minister of Blue Economy and Civil Aviation, Hon. Andre Perez visited Neuland to investigate the possibilities of constructing a port to serve between that part of Belize and Settlement 258 to boost the local economy.[4][5]