Christiana, North West

Province

Christiana is an agricultural town in South Africa. It lies on the Vaal, in the North West Province at the National Road N12 between Bloemhof and Warrenton. It has 3,571 inhabitants (as of 2011).

History

The city was founded in 1870 by diamond prospectors and after Christina Meyer, the only daughter of Andries Pretorius, former President of the South African Republic, named.

The place the end of 1872 prepared Emil Holub (default: Seven Years in South Africa) wrote in his travel reports:

" Coming closer, we found an elongated brick house with iron sheet covered, a second set of soil and piles Kunstbau that threatened to collapse at any moment and a third built of fired brick house with a flat roof. This set of three different ends of the measured, future city " building ", 2 tents and 13 Korannahütten, formed in 1872, the sea of ​​houses in western of the cities of the Republic, which by the unrest in the country Gassibone 's and the nearby local residents Koranna 's in later South Africa rather become known Christiana. The former house was the home of the country Droste and also the Comptoir of the highest civil and military authorities of the district Bloemhof, covered in the second small, flat tile roof was a merchant shop and lived in the dilapidated home if I'm not mistaken, the sheriff, a notary etc. "

Attractions

As the attractions found near Christiana rock drawings of the San and the Digger 's Diamonds Museum, memorabilia from the early phase of the diamond industry, which led to the founding of the city are showing.