Fraserburg
Fraserburg is a town in the Karoo region of South Africa's Northern Cape province. It is located in the Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality. The town has some of the coldest winters in South Africa.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Old Parsonage Museum, Fraserburg and The Pepperpot.
Old Parsonage Museum, Fraserburg
Museum
The Old Parsonage Museum in Fraserburg is the first parsonage that the Fraserburg Reformed Church, the local congregation of the Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa, built for its pastor, five years after the congregation's founding in 1851.
The Pepperpot
Monument
The Peperbus is an unusual, hexagonal building on Meyburgh Street, Fraserburg, in the Karoo of South Africa. Along with the Old Parsonage Museum and the Afrikaner Protestant church, earlier an Anglican church designed by Sophy Gray, the Peperbus is one of three national heritage sites the province maintains in the town.
Fraserburg
- Type: Town with 3,030 residents
- Description: town in the Northern Cape, South Africa
- Category: locality
- Location: Karoo Hoogland Local Municipality, Namakwa, Northern Cape, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-31.91556° or 31° 54′ 56″ southLongitude
21.51357° or 21° 30′ 49″ eastPopulation
3,030Elevation
1,262 metres (4,140 feet)Inception
1851Open location code
4GW33GM7+QCOpenStreetMap ID
node 262720194OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Fraserburg” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Fraserburg”
- Armenian: “Ֆրեյզերբուրգ”
- Asturian: “Fraserburg”
- Belarusian: “Фрэйзербург”
- Dutch: “Fraserburg”
- Estonian: “Fraserburg”
- French: “Fraserburg”
- German: “Fraserburg”
- Italian: “Fraserburg”
- Malagasy: “Fraserburg”
- Pedi: “Fraserburg”
- Romanian: “Fraserburg”
- Russian: “Фрейзербург”
- Ukrainian: “Фрейзербург”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Hoërskool Fraserburg Sportgronde and Fraserburg Library.
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