Overview
    Identifiers
    Inventory Number
    3419BA1
    Site Name
    Genadendal Mission Complex, Genadendal
    Site Category
    Record Administration
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    sahrisprojectmanager
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    Archaeology Recordings
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    Recording date
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    Yes
    Built Environment Recordings
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    Yes
    Classifications
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    Architectural features

    The Genadendal Moravian Mission Station, which was founded by the missionary George Schmidt in 1737, is the oldest mission village in the Republic. The large number of historic buildings within the historic core date from the eighteenth and nineteenth cen
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    Associated People
    History of use
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      Location
      Location
      Mapping
      -34.033743, 19.557397
      Western Cape
      • Overberg
      • Theewaterskloof
      Land Parcel Details
      Type of land parcel
      Farm
      Land Parcel Reference
      Erf/Farm No: Glebe land no 3
      Genadendal
      Grading
      Grading
      Grade II
      GradingComment

      archiveimport Grading by: South African Heritage Resources Agency

      Statement of Significance

      The Genadendal Moravian Mission Station, which was founded by the missionary George Schmidt in 1737, is the oldest mission village in the Republic. The large number of historic buildings within the historic core date from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and are predominantly in the Cape Dutch and vernacular styles.

      Declaration
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      Declaration Type
      Declaration Description

      The property with the historic buildings thereon, being certain piece of land situate at Genadendal in the Division of Caledon, being Glebe Land No.3, as depicted by the figure abc d e f g h j k on Surveyor's Diagram SG 2001/78, dated 21 April 1978, measuring 2,8676 hectares, and filed in the. office of the Surveyor General. Deed of Transfer 7932/1954, dated 28 May 1954 (paragraph 5).

      Gazette Date
      Gazette Number
      7041
      Gazette Notice Status
      Notice Date
      Notice Number
      1056
      Deeds Number
      7932/1954
      Archive Status
      National monument
      7041-1056_0.pdf (16.19 KB)
      7041-1056a_0.pdf (23.92 KB)
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