Mosgiel
Mosgiel is a 6,714 residents at the Taieri River, in the city district of Dunedin, located on the South Island of New Zealand. Although Mosgiel since the administrative reform (Local Government Reform 1987-1989) a suburb of Dunedin, many inhabitants still look as residents of an independent city.
Geography
Mosgiel is located at the eastern end of the Taieri Plains and is surrounded to the north, east and south by the Pacific Ocean towards expiring mountains Otago. Although only 10 km as the crow flies from downtown Dunedin, Mosgiel is delimited by the intervening crater of a former volcano in a natural way from Dunedin City. Traffic Technically Mosgiel over the running in a north-south direction State Highway 1 is attached. From this the State Highway 87 branches off to the Middelburg and Strath Taieri March and runs through the city.
History
As in Dunedin, the technical basis for the founding of the town of Mosgiel the surveyor and planner Charles Henry Kettle (1821-1862) were created. End of March 1848, he began researching the Taieri Plains and decided very quickly, select the eastern part of the plain along the Taieri Rivers settlement area. Soon, the first settlers arrived and began in June 1848 Thomas Burns ( 1796-1871 ), pastor, co-founder of Dunedin and founder of the First Church of Otago, with the allocation of each 52 acre parcels to individual members of the settlement project of the Free Church of Scotland. Burns himself has also secured some shares in the country and his son, Arthur John Burns in 1855 known as the first farmer who led his farm as a business operation. Burns son it was who tried to build with the wool industry a second economic pillar for Mosgiel and 1869 the Mosgiel Woollen Co. founded. As a result of the Otago Gold Rush (1861-1863) finally stable and usable roads were built, what the infrastructure improved, Mosgiel better connected with Dunedin and Mosgiel made interesting as a production site and a country residence Better Exposed.
The name Mosgiel for the settlement was awarded by Robert Burns in memory of his birthplace Mossgiel, a farm in Ayrshire, Scotland and lost probably due to Arthur John Burns spelling from 1857 his second "s".
After the abolition of provincial government in 1875, with the Counties Act were ' created 63 Counties of 1876 in New Zealand, of which Taieri County was one of the new creation. The scramble for the administrative headquarters of the county was not decided until three years later at the second attempt for Mosgiel and made the official appointment in February 1882.
After the opening of the railway line Otago Central Railway in 1891, which branched off in Mosgiel of the Main South Line and the place with Middlemarch in Central Otago Association, the city got another economic boom. With the farmland as an economic base in the background, the agricultural machinery industry and the service sector developed rapidly in addition to the wool industry. Mosgiel thus grew from 418 inhabitants in 1881, about 1,463 inhabitants at the turn of the century to over 9,400 residents in 1976 and reached its peak. The gradual closure of manufacturing facilities in the following years also led to the decline in population that still continues today. The last current loss of over 430 jobs, the closure of Fisher & Paykel, a manufacturer of household electrical appliances, dar.
From 1900 until moving to Auckland in 1997 was Mosgiel seat of the national seminary of New Zealand College of the Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church.
Today
Mosgiel is now a suburb of Dunedin. The main sectors are still in agriculture, followed by services. On the old railway line now runs the significant for tourism museum train Taieri Gorge Railway. The country of residence Mosgiel now attracts one hand, people who are looking for affordable houses with enough distance to neighbors and on the other hand, people with enough money, named in Kinmont Park on the slopes of Saddle Hill, 1770 by Captain James Cook as, an excellent view of want to secure Mosgiel Taieri Plain and the.