Parktown
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 10 '50 " S , 28 ° 2' 21" E | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| metropolis | City of Johannesburg | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1759 m | ||
| surface | 3.8 km² | ||
| Residents | 6936 (2011) | ||
| density | 1,830.1 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1890 | ||
 Hazeldene Hall, a typical house from the founding phase
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Parktown is a district of the metropolitan municipality City of Johannesburg in South Africa . It belongs to the city region F, the inner city of Johannesburg.
geography
Parktown (English; German for example: "Parkstadt") is located immediately north of Johannesburg City. In 2011, 6,936 people lived there on an area of 3.79 km².
Parktown is on the ridge and north slope of the Witwatersrand south of Forest Town, west of Berea, northwest of Hillbrow , north of Braamfontein , east of Richmond and Melville and southeast of Westcliff. The area west of Jan Smuts Avenue is known as Parktown West. There are numerous avenues made of jacaranda trees and plane trees .
history
In 1890 the German businessman Eduard Lippert bought part of the Braamfontein Farm and built the Marienhof , the first house on the ridge of the ridge. The company Eckstein & Company then planned the further construction of the district. From the beginning of the 1890s, it was generously built by Randlords and thus developed into a residential area for the wealthy. The location on the warmer north side of the Witwatersrand facing away from the city also played a role. Thus, even among the privileged whites in the residential areas, different social classes were separated. In 1903 Parktown West was established. After the Second Boer War , many residents of Doornfontein moved to Parktown. Around 1975 numerous houses from the founding period were demolished for the construction of Motorway 1. Parktown developed into a university and business center.
Buildings
Parktown is home to many large residential buildings with Victorian and Edwardian architecture , including Dysart House , Emoyeni , Gable Ends , Hazeldene Hall and Villa Arcadia , which was built in 1898 in the style of a Swiss chalet . Hohenheim Hall was one of the first houses in the district, but was demolished in 1972. James Percy FitzPatrick , among others, lived there . One of the architects was Herbert Baker , who also designed the Union Buildings in Pretoria . Among other things, he designed his own home in Parktown, the Stonehouse . The Parktown Heritage Trust takes care of the preservation of the historic buildings .
Three out of five campuses of the University of the Witwatersrand - collectively called the Parktown Campus - are in Parktown. In the Sans Souci Road Parktown West is the German School Johannesburg .
traffic
The Motorway 1 (M1, Jan Smuts Avenue) separates as a northeast-southwest connection Parktown Parktown West. The streets in the district are not laid out at right angles, as is usually the case in the city, but also have irregular shapes.
Others
- Parktown North is a district that is north of Parktown and is counted to Randburg and thus the city region B. The district was built for less wealthy residents.
- Parktown Prawn is the ironic name for the weta species Libanasidus vittatus , endemic to South Africa , which - after drowning in swimming pools - is supposedly often mistaken for a shrimp .
Web links
- Parktown at sa-venues.com (English)
- First exert from Restorica: Parktown 100 years. (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Doornfontein 2011 census , accessed on March 5, 2018
- ^ A b Martin J. Murray: The spatial politics of Johannesburg. Duke University Press, Duke 2011, ISBN 9780822347682 , p. 43. Excerpts from books.google.de
- ↑ a b Parktown at sa-venues.com (English), accessed on March 7, 2018
- ↑ Kevin Shillington (Ed.): Encyclopedia of African history. Routledge, London 2013, ISBN 9781135456702 , p. 717. Excerpts from books.google.de
- ^ History of Parktown. parktownheritage.co.za (English), archive version
- ↑ Sir Percy Fitzpatrick. gauteng.net (English), accessed on March 7, 2018
- ↑ Description at artefacts.co.za (English), accessed on March 7, 2018
- ↑ First exert from Restorica: Parktown 100 years. (English), accessed March 7, 2018
- ↑ Parktown Campus at wits.ac.za (English), accessed March 8, 2018
- ↑ Contact page at dsj.co.za, accessed on March 7, 2018