Rosettenville

Rosettenville
Rosettenville
Coordinates	26 ° 15 '5 "  S , 28 ° 3' 19"  E Coordinates: 26 ° 15 '5 "  S , 28 ° 3' 19"  E
Basic data
Country	South Africa
province	Gauteng
metropolis	City of Johannesburg
height	1749 m
surface	2.3 km²
Residents	17,319 (2011)
density	7,562.9  Ew. / km²

Rosettenville 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

Rosettenville is located near the center of Johannesburg, around six kilometers south of the main train station, Johannesburg Park Station . In 2011, 17,319 people lived there.

West of Rosettenville is the Kenilworth district, north of La Rochelle with Lake Wemmer Pan , east of The Hill, south of Townsview and southwest of Towerby.

history

Rosettenville was named after the surveyor Leo (or Levin) Rosettenstein, who surveyed and planned the area before the 1889 gold rush. He named some streets after relatives.

In 1903, the Anglican Church founded the seminary of St Peter's Theological College on the eastern edge of the district . Her most famous graduate is Desmond Tutu . In 1908, the St. Agnes School was opened on the site , which a few years later was expanded to St. Peter's Priory and College . It became known as St. Peter's College under the direction of Trevor Huddleston . The school was known as Black Eton because it trained blacks at a high level. Well-known students were Oliver Tambo , Hugh Masekela and Arthur Maimane ; Tambo later also worked there as a teacher. In protest against the Bantu Education Act , the school closed in 1956, but later reopened as St. Martin's School .

From the 1920s, many Portuguese immigrants from Portugal or Mozambique settled in Rosettenville. In 1987 the Portuguese opened the first Nando's restaurant in the district. In 2007 the reggae musician Lucky Dube was shot in Rosettenville.

Buildings

Just south of the St. Martin's School is the South Rand Hospital. The Motorway 11 runs as Prairie Street in north-south direction by Rosettenville.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 2011 census , accessed March 29, 2015
2. ↑ Newsletter 2001 at jewishgen.org, PDF page 7 (PDF, English), accessed on March 29, 2015
3. ↑ History of St. Martin's School ( Memento of the original from January 22nd, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed March 28, 2015 
4. ↑ Self-presentation of the Nando's chain ( memento of the original from March 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English), accessed March 28, 2015