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Saxonwold | |
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  Saxonwold  Saxonwold | |
| Coordinates:26°9′23″S28°2′26″E / 26.15639°S 28.04056°E /-26.15639; 28.04056 | |
| Country | South Africa |
| Province | Gauteng |
| Municipality | City of Johannesburg |
| Main Place | Johannesburg |
| Established | 1925 |
| Area | |
• Total | 2.58 km2 (1.00 sq mi) |
| Population (2011)[1] | |
• Total | 2,557 |
| • Density | 991/km2 (2,570/sq mi) |
| Racial makeup (2011) | |
| • Black African | 27.4% |
| • Coloured | 2.8% |
| • Indian/Asian | 9.5% |
| • White | 58.2% |
| • Other | 2.1% |
| First languages (2011) | |
| • English | 67.9% |
| • Afrikaans | 11.0% |
| • Zulu | 4.7% |
| • Tswana | 3.5% |
| • Other | 12.9% |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (SAST) |
| Postal code (street) | 2196 |
| PO box | 2132 |
Saxonwold is an affluent suburb ofJohannesburg,South Africa. It is situated in what was once the Sachsenwald Forest in the early 20th century. It is located in Region E of theCity of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
The suburb has its origins as part of the Braamfontein farm which was owned byHermann Eckstein.[2] He had bought the farm to explore it for minerals and when he failed to find any, the land was converted as atimber plantation in 1891 called Sachsenwald afterOtto von Bismarck's estate.[2] The land's name was anglicized at the beginning of World War One and was called Saxonwold.[2] In 1903, Wernher Beit & Co andMax Michaelis gave 200 acres of freehold ground in the Sachsenwald plantation to theJohannesburg Town Council for the use by the people of Johannesburg by the creation of the Herman Eckstein Park.[2] This park would becomeZoo Lake, theJohannesburg Zoo and theSouth African National Museum of Military History. The remaining land in the plantation was developed into a township called Saxonwold in 1925 by the Transvaal Consolidated Land & Exploration Co Ltd.[2] The streets were laid out to view theRand Regiments Memorial with instructions to home builders not to impede the view of the memorial and the street names having an old Anglo-Saxon theme and ended inwold.[2]
TheJapanese School of Johannesburg previously had a location in Saxonwold. After a negative campaign in 1968, the location was forced to close.[3]
TheVilla d'Este was built in 1923.[4] TheSouth African National Museum of Military History and theAnglo-Boer War Memorial are also located in Saxonwold.
TheNelson Mandela Children's Fund is also located in Saxonwold.
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