Heidelberg, Gauteng

Coordinates: 26°30′02″S 28°21′30″E / 26.50056°S 28.35833°E / -26.50056; 28.35833
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Heidelberg
PO box
1438
Area code016

Heidelberg is a town with 35,500 inhabitants in the

N3 highway connecting Johannesburg and Durban
.

History

The area was once the

Bakwena,[3] until colonization and the Basotho wars
.

Modern Heidelberg was founded in 1862 as a trading station by a

German, Heinrich Julius Ueckermann. A town was laid out around the store and named after Ueckermann's alma mater. In 1866, the District of Heidelberg was created from the eastern portion of the Potchefstroom district with its own landdrost (magistrate), having been laid out as a churchplace in 1865.[4]
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100th anniversary of Susan, a class 12AR locomotive built in 1919 to work on the coal mines[5]

Heidelberg has played an important part in South African history, acting as a capital for the Boer republic during the war with Great Britain under the Triumvirate of Paul Kruger, P.J. Joubert and M.W. Pretorius, from 1880 to 1883. In 1885, the Witwatersrand gold reef was discovered, and the office of the Mining Commissioner was established there.

Heidelberg developed as a typical rural Victorian town. Many buildings dating back to the period between 1890 and 1910 have been preserved, including the home of

Boer women and children; a monument to their memory, and to those of the black women and children who also died during the war, was erected in the main cemetery in the late 1990s by the current ANC
-led municipality.

The

white separatist leader Eugène Terre'Blanche in the Heidelberg suburb of Rensburg. Its headquarters are now in Terre'Blanche's hometown of Ventersdorp
.

The "Jo'burg to Sea" mountain bike stage race starts in Heidelberg. The "Outdoor X" show is held just outside Heidelberg on the Malonjeni Guest Farm.

Notable people

References

  1. hdl:2263/26503
    .
  2. ^ a b c d "Main Place Heidelberg". Census 2011.
  3. OCLC 918941423.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  4. ISBN 9781108023665
    .
  5. ^ Reefsteamers celebrates Susan the Steam Train's 100th Birthday! [1]
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