Adelaide (South Africa)

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Adelaide
Adelaide (South Africa)
Adelaide
Adelaide
Coordinates 32 ° 42 ′  S , 26 ° 18 ′  E Coordinates: 32 ° 42 ′  S , 26 ° 18 ′  E
Basic data
Country South Africa

province

Eastern Cape
District Amathole
ISO 3166-2 ZA-EC
local community Raymond Mhlaba
Residents 6126 (2011)
Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk in Adelaide
Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk in Adelaide

Adelaide is a place in the Amathole District , Eastern Cape Province in South Africa . He belongs to the Raymond Mhlaba Ward . It is located on the Koonap River south of the Winter Mountains . Adelaide has about 6,126 inhabitants (2011).

history

The present-day area of ​​Adelaide was first inhabited by the San ; later, with the arrival of the Xhosa and subsequently the Europeans, most of the San were expelled.

Adelaide's founding in 1834 goes back to the British officer Captain Alexander Boswell Armstrong, who had a military camp built there, which he called Fort Adelaide . At the beginning of the 19th century, the British had set up a military post here on the south bank of the Koonap River.

Armstrong's admiration for the wife of King Wilhelm IV , Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen , was so great that he used her name again a year later when establishing another military camp on the upper reaches of the Kat River , Camp Adelaide . This fortified post was later renamed Fort Armstrong.

In addition to the early English settlers, who were among the "settlers of 1820" , a large number of Scots and Boers later immigrated to this area. The Scots were the first to build a church there.

Until 2016, Adelaide was the administrative seat of the Nxuba municipality .

Economy and Transport

Cattle and sheep are raised around Adelaide, and wool and citrus fruits are produced. The R63 regional road runs through Adelaide in a west-east direction.

museum

A small museum in Adelaide keeps exhibits and photos from the settlement history of the region. It is called Our Heritage Museum ( Ons-Erfenis-Museum ) and opened in 1967. The collection contains furniture from the 19th century and ceramic objects from Wedgwoodware as well as from Dresden and Staffordshire . Historic vehicles refer to the Voortrekker and the events of the Ninth Frontier War from 1877 to 1879. The historic museum building was originally built for Reverend George William Stegman around 1860 in the Georgian style .

Sons and daughters of the church

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 22, 2013
  2. ↑ In: NN, Nachrichten aus der Brüder-Gemeine, Gnadau 1836, p. 939 ff.
  3. ↑ Captain Alexander Boswell Armstrong (* Dublin December 21, 1787 ; † King William's Town July 25, 1862 ), later Major, was then in Camp Adelaide, which is in the upper part of a peninsula on the Kat River and near the foot of the Katberg in the Built in 1835 to protect the Kat River Settlement and later renamed Fort Armstrong , it was stationed and led the British Cape Mounted Riflemen at Bathurst in the border war . Armstrong was also a judge in the Kat River Settlement. See Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Contents of Vol. XI, ed. from the Society for Army Historical Research , 1932, p. 97. Military biography in: Ian Uys: South African Military Who's who 1452-1992. Fortress Publishers, 1992, p. 7.
  4. ^ History, an overview of Adelaide . on www.adelaidetourism.co.za (English)
  5. ↑ Fort Armstrong, description of the listed property on www.artefacts.co.za (English)
  6. ↑ Matthias Blazek: Adelheid von Sachsen-Meiningen / namesake of Adelheidsdorf and Adelaide - later Queen of England remains childless and has probably never been in the Celle area. Sachsenspiegel 45, Cellesche Zeitung of November 10, 2012.
  7. ^ Mike Raath, Dorothy Pitman, Jenny Bennie: Museums of the Eastern Cape . Port Elizabeth (SAMA Eastern Cape) 1996, ISBN 0-620-19916-4 .
  8. ↑ Our Heritage Museum Queen Street Adelaide. ( Memento of February 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Entry by SAHRA (English).