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Fort Merensky
Botshabelo, Mpumalanga

Date:1865
Type:Fort
Status:Extant

 


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Coordinates:
25°41'51.27" S 29°24'39.64" E

Fort Merensky was built to protect Botshabelo (place of refuge), a mission station established just 5 km north west of Middelburg, in the 1860s by Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grutzner of the German Missionary Society. (SA Venues)

See also:
Wikipedia
Alexander Merensky - Wikipedia

Fort Merensky was declared a National Monument in 1965 and is now a Provincial Heritage Site.