Parow, Cape Town

Province

Parow is a northern suburb of Cape Town in South Africa's Western Cape province. In 2011 the town had 119 462 inhabitants. The place and its name date back to the ship's captain Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow.

History

1869 19 vessels were stranded during a storm in Table Bay. Among the ships was the ship Kehrwiederspitze of Captain Johann Heinrich Ferdinand Parow. Parow settled at the Cape of Good Hope and married Johanna Wilhelmina Timmerman, the daughter of a family that helped him in the aftermath of the shipwreck.

Captain Parow drove for a while on coastal vessels between Cape Town and the rest of the western coastal cities of South Africa. He acted beyond with cattle and land. He recognized the opportunities that presented themselves in the area around Tygerberg for the cattle trade and founded in 1886 a farm named Parow. Wilhemina Johanna died in 1900, Captain Parow himself died in 1910. The marriage was childless.

Already since 1883, there is a German International School in Parow. A local local government was established in 1902 in Parow. In 1939, the local administration was transferred to an independent municipality. The area around Parow 1944 integrated in the administrative area of Greater Cape Town. Between the 1960s and the 1980s, Parow to a local shopping center was. The community Parow was incorporated in 1996 in the City of Tygerberg within the City of Cape Town Metropolitan Municipality.

Since 2005 is the headquarters of the South African section of the Guardian Angels in Parow.