Orchards, Johannesburg

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Orchards
Coordinates: 26°09′07″S28°04′30″E / 26.152°S 28.075°E / -26.152; 28.075 Coordinates: 26°09′07″S28°04′30″E / 26.152°S 28.075°E / -26.152; 28.075
Country South Africa
Province Gauteng
Municipality City of Johannesburg
Main Place Johannesburg
Established1902
Area
[1]
 • Total0.81 km2 (0.31 sq mi)
Population
 (2011) [1]
 • Total2,282
 • Density2,800/km2 (7,300/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
[1]
 •  Black African 37.7%
 •  Coloured 1.1%
 •  Indian/Asian 4.5%
 •  White 54.7%
 • Other1.9
First languages (2011)
[1]
 •  English 63.8%
 •  Northern Sotho 2.9%
 •  Zulu 9.0%
 •  Southern Ndebele 2.0%
 • Other22.3%
Time zone UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)
2192

Orchards is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality. It is a small suburb surrounded by the wealthy suburb of Oaklands as well as Norwood, Sydenham and The Gardens.

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History

Orchards was declared as a suburb in March 1902. [2] :163 [3] :322 The land at the time was said to be covered in around 2,500 fruit and ornamental tree with an existing homestead. [3] :322 The orchards of the suburb were watered by the Orange Grove Spruit, a seasonal stream with its source on the ridge above Louis Botha Avenue close to Fellside. [3] :376 Most of the stream through the suburb is now either underground or canalized with it eventually forming up with the Sandspruit river. [3] :376 The lands owner, prior to being surveyed as a township, was William Anderson Martin, and was purchased in 1896, consisting of 18 acres of what is now known as Oaklands and Orchards. [4] :177 The land for the St Luke's Anglican Church was donated by him. [4] :177

Heritage

Orchards has several heritage sites. The Kraal is a house in Pine Street, now a museum and guest house, [5] built in 1907 by Hermann Kallenbach and has two rondavels attached to it. [3] :325 It was inhabited by Kallenbach's friend Mohandas Gandhi who lived there between 1908-1909. [3] :325

Other heritage buildings include the Pine Street Shul built in 1959 with stone friezes that depict the 12 Israeli tribes and designed by Eduardo Villa. [3] :331 An older synagogue, no longer in use, is also in Pine Street and was built in 1946. [3] :346

On the corner of Pine and Garden Road is New Covenant Baptist Church (originally St Giles Presbyterian Church) which dates from 1956 and extended again in 1965. [3] :342 St Luke's, an Anglican church, stands in High Street and was built in 1907 and designed by Sir Herbert Baker, was extended in 1920s, a hall built in 1951 and in 1956 further building of a tower, gallery and vestries took place. [6]

Orchards Primary School/Laerskool Dirkie Uys was established in 1928 as the Norwood Afrikaans Medium School and then a year later as the Orchards Afrikaans Skool and then named the Laerskool Dirkie Uys in 1933.

The Spark Gallery sits in Louis Road and was built in 1938 for the City of Johannesburg with its original function as an electrical substation which was closed down in the 1960s. [3] :352

In Orchards, some of the plane trees in Oaklands and Garden Roads date back to 1930's. [3] :416

Religious sites

Schools

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Sub Place Orchards". Census 2011.
  2. ↑ Leyds, Gerald Anton (1964). A History of Johannesburg: The Early Years. Nasional Boekhandel. p. 318.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 "Orange Grove Precinct. Heritage Impact Assessment & Conservation Management Plan. Report Phase 3. Volume 3" (PDF). Johannesburg Development Agency (published 16 May 2016). 19 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 Shorten, John R. (1970). The Johannesburg Saga. Johannesburg: John R. Shorten Pty Ltd. p. 1159.
  5. ↑ "The Satyagraha House". 21 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "About Us - St Luke's Church". 21 February 2017.
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