Mosgiel
| Mosgiel | ||
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| Coordinates | 45 ° 53 ′ S , 170 ° 21 ′ E | |
| Region ISO | NZ-OTA | |
| Country |
 New Zealand
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| region | Otago | |
| District | Dunedin City | |
| Ward | Mosgiel - Taieri Ward | |
| Residents | 6th 708 (2013) | |
| height | 16 m | |
| Post Code | 9024 | |
| Telephone code | +64 (0) 3 | |
| UN / LOCODE | NZ MGL | |
| Photography of the place | ||
 Mosgiel , view from Kinmont Park from |
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Mosgiel is a suburb in the urban area of Dunedin on the South Island of New Zealand . Although Mosgiel has beena suburb of Dunedin since the administrative reform of 1989 ( Local Government Reform 1987-1989), many residents still see themselves as residents of an independent city.
Origin of name
The settlement was so named by Thomas Burns (1796–1871), pastor, co-founder of Dunedin and founder of the First Church of Otago , in memory of his birthplace Mossgiel , a farm in Ayrshire , Scotland , lost due to his son, Arthur John Burns , spelling from 1857 the second "s".
geography
Mosgiel is located at the eastern end of the Taieri Plains on the Taieri River and is surrounded to the north, east and south by the mountains of the Otago region, which run out towards the Pacific Ocean . Although only 12 km from the center of Dunedin away, Mosgiel geographically an earlier through the intervening crater volcano in a natural way from the center of Dunedin separately.
history
As in Dunedin , the technical basis for the foundation of the city of Mosgiel was created by the surveyor and planner Charles Henry Kettle (1821-1862). At the end of March 1848 he began exploring the Taieri Plains and decided very quickly to choose the eastern part of the plain along the Taieri River as the settlement area. In June 1848 began Thomas Burns with the allocation of each 52 acres large plots to individual members of the settlement project of the Free Church of Scotland . Burns himself also secured some shares in the land and his son, Arthur John Burns , was known in 1855 as the first farmer to run his farm as a commercial enterprise. It was Burn's son who tried to build up a second economic pillar for Mosgiel in addition to agriculture with the wool industry and founded the Mosgiel Woolen Co. in 1869 . As a result of the Otago gold rush (1861–1863), Mosgiel also experienced an upswing, which was used to improve the infrastructure and Mosgiel was better connected to Dunedin . This also made Mosgiel interesting as a production site and as a country residence for wealthy Dunedin citizens .
After the provincial governments were abolished in 1875, the Counties' Act of 1876 New Zealand created 63 new counties , one of which was Taieri County . The scramble over the administrative location of the county was not decided until three years later in the second attempt for Mosgiel and the official appointment made only in February 1882.
After the opening of the Otago Central Railway in 1891, which branched off the Main South Line in Mosgiel and connected the city with Middlemarch in Central Otago , Mosgiel received further economic upswing. With the farmland as the economic base in the background, the agricultural machinery industry and the service sector developed rapidly alongside the wool industry. Mosgiel grew from 418 inhabitants in 1881 to over 1463 inhabitants at the turn of the century and to over 9400 inhabitants in 1976. Mosgiel thus reached its economic climax. The subsequent gradual closure of production facilities in the years that followed led to a decline in population that continues to this day. The last major loss of over 430 jobs was the closure of Fisher & Paykel , a manufacturer of household electrical appliances.
From 1900 until the move to Auckland in 1997, Mosgiel was the seat of New Zealand's national seminary, the Holy Cross College of the Roman Catholic Church.
population
In the 2013 census, the town had 6,708 inhabitants, 0.01% less than in the 2006 census.
economy
The dominant branches of the economy are still agriculture, followed by the service sector. The Taieri Gorge Railway museum train, which is important for tourism, now runs on the old railway line . As a place of residence, Mosgiel today attracts people who are looking for inexpensive houses with enough distance from their neighbors and people with enough money who are in Kinmont Park , on the slopes of Saddle Hill - so named by Captain James Cook in 1770 - an excellent view Mosgiel and the Taieri Plains want to secure.
Infrastructure
Road traffic
Mosgiel is directly connected to Dunedin by New Zealand State Highway 1 . From this the State Highway 87 branches off to Middlemarch and Strath Taieri and runs through the urban area.
Rail transport
By Mosgiel railway line of the leading South Iceland Main Trunk Railway , the Invercargill in the south Mosgiel about Dunedin with Christchurch connects the north. However, only goods are transported on the route. The Taieri Gorge Railway museum train branches off in Mosgiel in the direction of Taieri Gorge and Middlemarch .
See also
literature
- WR Kirk : Pulse of the Plain - A History of Mosgiel . Ed .: Mosgiel Borough Council . Mosgiel 1985, ISBN 0-9597755-0-1 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
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Population of Mosgiel :
- 2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Mosgiel East . Statistics New Zealand,accessed July 24, 2016.
- 2013 Census QuickStats about a place: Mosgiel South . Statistics New Zealand,accessed July 24, 2016.
- ↑ Local government reform 1987 - 1989 . Minitry for Environment , accessed August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ a b c Topo250 maps . Land Information New Zealand , accessed August 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Alexander Hare McLintock : Burns, Thomas . In: Alexander Hare McLintock (Ed.): An Encyclopaedia of New Zealand . Wellington 1966 ( online [accessed January 16, 2016]).
- ↑ Simon Hartley : F&P set to close NZ factory . In: Otago Daily Times . Allied Press Limited , April 6, 2016, accessed August 10, 2017 .