De Rust

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De Rust
De Rust (South Africa)
De Rust
De Rust
Coordinates 33 ° 28 ′  S , 22 ° 31 ′  E Coordinates: 33 ° 28 ′  S , 22 ° 31 ′  E
Basic data
Country South Africa

province

Western cape
District Garden Route
ISO 3166-2 ZA toilet
local community Oudtshoorn
Residents 3566 (2011)
founding 1900
Website www.derust.org.za (English)
Dutch Reformed Church in De Rust
Dutch Reformed Church in De Rust

De Rust ( Afrikaans , German: "The rest") is a place in the municipality of Oudtshoorn in the Garden Route district , Western Cape Province in South Africa . In 2011 it had 3,566 inhabitants. The place is at the foot of the Swartberge at the intersection of the N12 with Route 62 . The nearest town, Oudtshoorn , is 35 kilometers and the nearest airport, George , 84 kilometers away.

history

In the early 19th century, Petrus Johannes Meiring, a young man from Worcester near Cape Town , moved to the Little Karoo . He was a grandson of Pastor Arnoldus Meiring from Lingen (Ems) , who immigrated to South Africa in 1743.

He discovered the path through the Swartberg Mountains, the Meiringspoort Pass. It was the first pass to connect the Little Karoo with the Great Karoo here, and was completed in 1858.

Long before the place was founded, De Rust was already known as a resting place after the difficult pass crossing. De Rust was founded in 1900 on part of the Meirings family farm.

Web links

Commons : De Rust  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 18, 2013