Braamfontein

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Braamfontein
Braamfontein (South Africa)
Braamfontein
Braamfontein
Coordinates 26 ° 11 ′  S , 28 ° 2 ′  E Coordinates: 26 ° 11 ′  S , 28 ° 2 ′  E
Basic data
Country South Africa

province

Gauteng
District Johannesburg
ISO 3166-2 ZA-GP
Residents 7007 (2001)
founding 1853
Statue of an eland on the corner of Bertha St and Ameshoff St
Statue of an eland on the corner of Bertha St and Ameshoff St

Braamfontein (German for "Blackberry Spring") is a central district of the South African metropolis Johannesburg . In 2001 it had 7007 inhabitants. The district is located northwest of the city center between Jan Smuts Avenue and Empire Road . The Nelson Mandela Bridge connects Braamfontein with the Newtown district , with which it forms a cultural center. The Witwatersrand University , Constitution Hill and the Civic Center are located in Braamfontein . There is also the Jan Smuts House, where Jan Smuts's study is locatedto visit, a planetarium and the Origins Center, which houses an exhibition on the origins of man. The Gertrude Posel Gallery , Johannesburg Art Gallery, and the Standard Bank Collection of Tribal Art are other tourist attractions.

In 1853 there was a farm of the same name in the area of ​​what is now the district, which belonged to Gert Bezuidenhout. 1888–89, the first settlements that arose in the area of ​​the farm were incorporated as a suburb of Johannesburg. During the apartheid period, Braamfontein developed into a business center.

Sappi's headquarters are in Braamfontein .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2001 census , accessed on April 28, 2013 (English)
  2. ^ Heidrun Brockmann, Dirk Kruse-Etzbach: South Africa's north and east coast with Swaziland and Maputo. Iwanowski´s Reisebuchverlag, 2006, p. 347, online (English)
  3. ↑ a b James Bainbridge, Birgit Borowski: South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland , Lonely Planet Germany, 2010, p. 441 Online (English)
  4. ^ Mary Fitzpatrick: South Africa: Lesotho & Swaziland , Marco Polo, p. 430, Online (English)
  5. ^ Johannesburg Art Gallery. on www.saatchigallery.com (English)
  6. ↑ a b Hannes Meiring, G.-M. Van der Waal, Wilhelm Grütter: Early Johannesburg, its buildings and its people. Human & Rousseau, 1986, p. 109, online (English)
  7. ^ David M. Smith: The Apartheid city and beyond: urbanization and social change in South Africa. Routledge, 1992, p. 267, online (English)