Braunschweig, Eastern Cape

Province

Brunswick is a town in the district Amathole, Eastern Cape Province in South Africa near the city of East London.

The South African city of Braunschweig is situated on the R346, some 15 kilometers north of King William 's Town and about 27 kilometers south of Stutterheim. It lies at an altitude of 426 meters above sea level.

1857 moved the British governor of the Cape Colony around 2,400 legionaries of the Crimean War and an unknown number of German families in the area of ​​East London. The German emigrants founded next to Braunschweig more places with German names of cities like Berlin, Hamburg and Potsdam.

North-west of Braunschweig are some of the last natural forests of the Eastern Cape, the Pirie Forest, the Isidenge State Forest and the Kubusi State Forest.