Keimoes

Province

Keimoes is a small town in the municipality of Kai! Garib, ZF Mgcawu District, Northern Cape Province in South Africa and is the seat of the municipal administration. It is located at the junction of the N14 and R27 roads. 2011, it had 12,000 inhabitants.

Keimoes located 45 kilometers south-west of Upington and 40 km east of Kakamas on the Orange and lives like many other places in this area to a great extent from the wine. However, here the grapes are predominantly processed into raisins and wine.

It is named after the Keimoes either Khoikhoibegriff for mice nest after the resident mice colonies or back to the Namabegriffen gei (' big' ) and mus ( 'source' ).

History

The town was founded in the 1870s by Klaas Lucas, the leader of a living here! Korana group, who were among the Khoikhoi. 1887, the first school was built in 1889 the first church. City status was awarded Keimoes 1949. Due to its location right on the river, it always comes back to major flooding of the city, for example, in the years 1925, 1934, 1974 and 1988.

Attractions

  • Tree of prayer (Ecclesiastes Tree) 1918 was Keimoes, like many other cities also, affected by the Spanish flu. To minimize the risk of infection, all events were banned in enclosed spaces, the Dutch Reformed Church congregation then gave their shows under this tree from. Since then he is known preacher tree. There is a large specimen of a camel thorn tree ( Acacia erioloba ).
  • Worth seeing in the city is an old water wheel, which is still in operation and supplies the surrounding vines with water from the Orange River.
  • The church was built in 1889, since 1978 it is a national monument and is used as a museum.
  • The 160 -acre nature reserve is located four kilometers outside the town on the road towards the Augrabies Falls. It is known for the large number of aloes and succulent plants.
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