Saxonwold
| Saxonwold | |||
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| Coordinates | 26 ° 9 '23 " S , 28 ° 2' 26" O | ||
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| Country | South Africa | ||
| Gauteng | |||
| metropolis | City of Johannesburg | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ZA-GP | ||
| height | 1678 m | ||
| surface | 2.6 km² | ||
| Residents | 2557 (2011) | ||
| density | 991.1 Ew. / km² | ||
| founding | 1925 | ||
Saxonwold is a district of the metropolitan municipality City of Johannesburg in South Africa . It belongs to urban region E, which is mostly northeast of downtown Johannesburg.
geography
Saxonwold (English; derived from the German " Sachsenwald ") is located north of Johannesburg City. In 2011, 2557 people lived there on an area of 2.58 km². The residents live in around 560 villas with an average property size of around 2000 square meters. The streets are lined with deciduous trees. Surrounding neighborhoods, starting north clockwise, are Parkwood, Houghton Estate , Riviera, Forest Town, Westcliff, and Parkview. Saxonwold is north of the ridge of the Witwatersrand .
history
In the early 1890s, the area of what is now the district belonged to the Braamfontein Farm of the fringe lord Hermann Eckstein , who came from Germany . Contrary to his expectations, he found no mineral resources there and then had a forest planted with three million trees, which he named "Sachsenwald" after the forest in Schleswig-Holstein that belonged to Otto von Bismarck . According to other information, Eduard Lippert, also from Germany, had the forest laid out. The wood should be used as pit wood . In 1903 part of the area was declared a park. The Zoo Lake , the Joburg Zoo (founded in 1904) and the South Africa National Museum of Military History , today (National) Museum of Military History in the Ditsong Museum Association, were built there . At the beginning of the First World War, the name of the area was Anglicized . The settlement of the same name was established in 1925, the street names of which are derived from Anglo-Saxon history and whose names end in -wold (for example Cotswold Drive ).
From around the early 2000s until their escape in 2018, the Gupta family lived in the Sahara Estate in Saxonwold.
traffic
The Motorway 9 (M9) runs on the eastern edge of Saxonwold.
Attractions
- The Villa d'Este is modeled on the Villa d'Este in Tivoli, Italy and is declared a national monument. It was built in the Spanish style in the 1920s and rebuilt from 1957.
- The Anglo-Boer War Memorial , which commemorates all victims in the Second Boer War , is located on the site of the museum in Saxonwold . Originally it served as the Rand Regimental Memorial as a memorial to British fallen.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2011 Saxonwold census , accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ Thabiso Thakali: Saxonwold residents just want peace. iol.co.za from December 18, 2016, accessed July 6, 2018
- ↑ a b History at jhbzoo.org.za (English), accessed on July 6, 2018
- ↑ Plaques in Parktown parktownheritage.co.za (English; archive version)
- ^ National Museum of Military History. ditsong.org.za, accessed July 6, 2018