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Vredehoek
Vredehoek (Afrikaans: [ˈfriədəɦuk], lit. 'peace corner') is a residential suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located at the foot of Table Mountain and Devil's Peak. It is sandwiched between the two neighbouring suburbs of Oranjezicht and Devil's Peak Estate, the latter of which is often considered a sub-suburb of Vredehoek as they both fall under the neighbourhood watch community called DPV - Devil's Peak & Vredehoek.
The suburb is recognised by the three cylindrical Disa Park towers, many Art Deco-style buildings, and the area's public green spaces and parks.[citation needed] In 2011, the City of Cape Town census counted 5,415 people living in the area.
It is served by route 111 and 101 of the MyCiTi bus service.
The suburb was proclaimed after the first world war, where immigrants from many European countries settled after peace was declared, hence the name of "peace corner". Vredehoek Farm and Elba Farm were among the earliest settlements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Jurgens family were the original owners of Vredehoek farm in this period and where they built Vredehoek homstead, c1800. They sold the farm to Edward H. F. Mellish in 1883, “a man of means, energy, ability and high standards” and he transformed the farm into Cape Town's first dairy farm. Coupled with Mellish' death in 1905 and the mismanagement of the property by his son, all farming on the property ceased in 1916. Over the following decades, portions of the original farm were subdivided into residential lots. The homestead and part of the farm was sold to the University of Cape Town in 1924 and the homestead was used as a hostel by South African College Schools. Cape Town municipality purchased the property from the university in 1930. They demolished the homestead and created public recreational fields on the land. Some remaining part of the original estate were transferred to the Poor Sisters of Nazareth in 1926 and 1929. Elba Farm (later Prospect Hill Farm) was developed as Devil's Peak Estate, a residential suburb for Europeans.
On 1 April 1888, Cape Town's mayor commemorated the opening of wash houses near the Platteklip (Dutch: "flat stone") Stream. An estimated 200 washerwomen were expected to stop washing laundry in the stream and instead use new indoor facilities. This change was made as downstream small-holdings owners wanted clean water for crops and new sanitation laws were outlawing washing laundry in public streams.
The new wash houses required the washerwomen to pay a fee and this led to an initial boycott, after which the fee was dropped. Once the women began using the facility's standing basins, perhaps because of the comfort over bending to wash, the fee was re-introduced.
Before slavery was abolished at the South Africa in 1834, the washerwomen would have been primarily enslaved women. They used corn husks to scour lathered cloth and used nearby bushes, trees and rocks for places to hang wet laundry for drying.
The Platteklip Stream's fresh water comes off Table Mountain. It has historically been used by indigenous pastoralists to water their animals and for wild animals like buck to drink. The Khoekhoen people called the stream Camissa "The Place of Sweet Water" and European settlers who used it for refreshment after being at sea called it Varsche Rivier.
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Vredehoek
Vredehoek (Afrikaans: [ˈfriədəɦuk], lit. 'peace corner') is a residential suburb of Cape Town, South Africa, located at the foot of Table Mountain and Devil's Peak. It is sandwiched between the two neighbouring suburbs of Oranjezicht and Devil's Peak Estate, the latter of which is often considered a sub-suburb of Vredehoek as they both fall under the neighbourhood watch community called DPV - Devil's Peak & Vredehoek.
The suburb is recognised by the three cylindrical Disa Park towers, many Art Deco-style buildings, and the area's public green spaces and parks.[citation needed] In 2011, the City of Cape Town census counted 5,415 people living in the area.
It is served by route 111 and 101 of the MyCiTi bus service.
The suburb was proclaimed after the first world war, where immigrants from many European countries settled after peace was declared, hence the name of "peace corner". Vredehoek Farm and Elba Farm were among the earliest settlements in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The Jurgens family were the original owners of Vredehoek farm in this period and where they built Vredehoek homstead, c1800. They sold the farm to Edward H. F. Mellish in 1883, “a man of means, energy, ability and high standards” and he transformed the farm into Cape Town's first dairy farm. Coupled with Mellish' death in 1905 and the mismanagement of the property by his son, all farming on the property ceased in 1916. Over the following decades, portions of the original farm were subdivided into residential lots. The homestead and part of the farm was sold to the University of Cape Town in 1924 and the homestead was used as a hostel by South African College Schools. Cape Town municipality purchased the property from the university in 1930. They demolished the homestead and created public recreational fields on the land. Some remaining part of the original estate were transferred to the Poor Sisters of Nazareth in 1926 and 1929. Elba Farm (later Prospect Hill Farm) was developed as Devil's Peak Estate, a residential suburb for Europeans.
On 1 April 1888, Cape Town's mayor commemorated the opening of wash houses near the Platteklip (Dutch: "flat stone") Stream. An estimated 200 washerwomen were expected to stop washing laundry in the stream and instead use new indoor facilities. This change was made as downstream small-holdings owners wanted clean water for crops and new sanitation laws were outlawing washing laundry in public streams.
The new wash houses required the washerwomen to pay a fee and this led to an initial boycott, after which the fee was dropped. Once the women began using the facility's standing basins, perhaps because of the comfort over bending to wash, the fee was re-introduced.
Before slavery was abolished at the South Africa in 1834, the washerwomen would have been primarily enslaved women. They used corn husks to scour lathered cloth and used nearby bushes, trees and rocks for places to hang wet laundry for drying.
The Platteklip Stream's fresh water comes off Table Mountain. It has historically been used by indigenous pastoralists to water their animals and for wild animals like buck to drink. The Khoekhoen people called the stream Camissa "The Place of Sweet Water" and European settlers who used it for refreshment after being at sea called it Varsche Rivier.