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Coetsenburg is an historic

University of Stellenbosch
.

Jannie Marais House at Coetsenburg Estate

Name

Coetsenburg is owned by the Coetsee family which is

stronghold or acropolis” [3] (the first permanent European settlers in the area were primarily Dutch-speaking).[4][5] Thus “Coetsenburg” means “Coetsee and his Fortress”. The incorrect form "Coetsenberg" refers to the Stellenbosch Mountain
which is situated partly on Coetsenburg Estate.

The surname Coetsee is of

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and settled first in Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, before moving to Kampen in the Overijssel where they Dutchified. Dirk Coetsee left the Netherlands in 1679 aboard the Asia, a Dutch East India Company ship, and settled initially in Huis Herengracht (Herengracht House) in the Herengracht (now Adderley Street) between Hout and Krotoa Place (Castle) Streets, Cape Town, in the Dutch Cape Colony before the Dutch Governor of the Cape Colony Simon van der Stel
granted him land in 1682 which he named Coetsenburg.

Since surnames were only recorded for taxation purposes and many officials of the

Anglicized through intermarriage after the British conquest of the Dutch Cape Colony
in 1795 and Coetsenburg is now under their custodianship.

Location

The Coetsenburg Estate lies on the banks of the

University of Stellenbosch, Paul Roos Gymnasium and the old Welgevallen Farm (one of the farms that formed part of Rhodes Fruit Farms) which is now the suburbs of Brandwacht, Dalsig, Anesta, Eden and La Pastorale.[22] Eastwards the estate stretches into the Jonkershoek Valley to the Hottentots-Holland Catchment Area and, to the south-east, the Assegaaibosch Nature Reserve which was once the Assegaaibosch Estate, also owned by the founder of Coetsenburg, Dirk Coetsee.[23]

History

In the early 1680s,

assegai trees; Assegaaibosch means "Assegai forest") and used it primarily for grazing.[28][29] Coetsee later built the Assegaaibosch Manor House, a traditional Cape Dutch-styled house, which is now a national monument.[23] Van der Stel also granted two other estates to Dirk Coetsee: Uiterwyk (“Outer ward”) in Bottelary in 1699, and Zonquasdrift (from “Zonqua” which means San and drift in Dutch) in Tulbagh in 1714.[28][29]

Past owners

Past owners of Coetsenburg, apart from the founder Dirk Coetsee and his son Gerrit Coetsee, include Andries Christoffel Van Der Byl and Johannes Henoch "Jannie" Marais.

Andries Christoffel van der Byl of the prominent Van Der Byl family, which were interrelated with the Coetsee family and owned wine estates like Groot Constantia, Groote Schuur, Schoongezicht (now Lanzerac) and currently the Irene Estate in Pretoria (amongst others), was born in 1825, the son of PG van der Byl. He married twice: in 1847 to Gezina Wilhelmina Constantia Marais, the daughter of Charles Gerhardus Marais of the wine estate Old Nectar in the Jonkershoek Valley (one child 1848); married again in 1869 Sara Christina Munnik Cloete.

University of Stellenbosch
and a scholarship scheme which continues today.

See also

References

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