Fish Hoek
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| Coordinates | 34 ° 8 ′ S , 18 ° 26 ′ E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
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| metropolis | City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA toilet | ||
| Residents | 11,890 (2011) | ||
 View of Fish Hoek from Elsie's Peak
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Fish Hoek ( Afrikaans Vishoek , German roughly: "fish tip") is a coastal town on False Bay on the Cape Peninsula south of the South African metropolis Cape Town . In 2011 the place had 11,890 inhabitants. It lies at the mouth of the Silvermine Stream.
Administratively, belongs to Fish Hoek since 2000 Metropolitan Municipality City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality , Province of Western Cape . The center of Cape Town is 35 kilometers across the road. There is also a rail connection with the Metrorail to Cape Town.
history
The arrival of the first European settlers in Fish Hoek (then also: Vissers Baay or Visch Hoek ) in 1652 forced the residents there to leave the area. Fish Hoek Beach was later used as a base for whaling and fishing.
In 1883, Hester Sophia de Kock bought the land. She married a local farmer named Jacob Isaac de Villiers in 1901. They grew wheat and vegetables, but also gave shelter to travelers. Thus they were the first tourist entrepreneurs in Fish Hoek. Due to its location, the view and the lighthouse, the place became more and more popular. After the death of Hester and Jacob de Villiers, the land was sold in 1918. Her grave is in the small cemetery next to the Dutch Reformed Church on Kommetjie Road . The old farmhouse became a hotel but burned down in 1947.
First, vacation homes were built. However, since there was a good rail connection to Cape Town with the Southern Line of the Metrorail , more and more people settled permanently. After all, in 1940 Fish Hoek was big enough to become a parish. This existed until 1996. From 1996 to 2000 Fish Hoek was part of the South Peninsula Municipality.
The so-called 'Jager Walk', named after the first mayor Herman Scott Jager, was completed in the 1930s. This hiking trail, picturesquely built between the rocks, leads from the beach along the surf to Sunny Cove.
Geography and climate
Fish Hoek is at the eastern end of a shallow, two to three kilometer wide valley that stretches across the Cape Peninsula from west to east. The villages of Noordhoek and Kommetjie are at the western end of the valley on the Atlantic coast . The valley is best known for 12,000-year-old Paleolithic skeletons that Bertie Peers and his father discovered in 1927 in the cave now known as Peers Cave .
Fish Hoek has a mild Mediterranean climate. In summer the so-called cape doctor rules here .
sons and daughters of the town
- Matthew Booth (* 1977), South African soccer player
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 census , accessed November 18, 2013