Louis Trichardt

Province

Louis Trichardt (formerly Trichardtsdorp, for a short time as the Makhado Municipality to the Louis Trichardt heard ) is a city in South Africa.

Geography

Louis Trichardt is one of the largest cities in the Limpopo province. The city lies near the border with Zimbabwe at the foot of the Soutpansberg Mountains. There are grown around fruits like bananas, mangoes and nuts. The national road N1 runs through Louis Trichardt. 2011, the city had 25,360 inhabitants.

History

Like many other cities in South Africa is also Louis Trichardt caused by the Voortrekker settlement. Two expeditions of the Voortrekkers reached the Soutpansberg Mountains in 1836, one of them under the leadership of Louis Trichardt (actually Louis Tregardt, born in Copenhagen, Denmark, 1783-1838 ), after whom the town was named, and the other under the leadership by Hans van Rensburg. Van Rensburg decided to pursue his group further east towards Lourenço Marques (now Maputo, Mozambique) to lead. The entire group, however, was killed on the way there.

Trichardt and his group, however, remained in the vicinity of mountains and struck their tents there, in the place which probably corresponds to the present site of the city. There they also built of grain. After the group had lingered there for a year, she decided to follow van Rensburg and his group. On the way to what was then Lourenço Marques, which lasted seven months, half the group died, including Trichardt was itself