The smalll town Heidelberg is propably one of the most beautiful towns on the N2 with wonderful old houses and an amizing history that comes alive when you go for a walk in it's streets.
When living in Heidelberg one gets to understand it's history and how things got made a hundrede years ago, why things worked the way they did.
The N2 was (today the highway), the road people travelled to go inland and towns were born on all the rivers on the N2 almost exactly 50 to 60 km apart - a day's horserdiding and a place to stopover for the night, feed the animals and get water.
Heidelberg is one of these town but here the farmers got permission from the church farmers from Swellendam & Riversal to build an Dutch Reformed Church and so the town started grwoing in 1855 with a Magistrate's building, the Dutch reformed Church and the original Farmhouse Doornboom Opstal with a working Smithy shop and all.
In the beginning of the 20th Century in the boer war the most Southern point of battle happened in Heidelberg with a lot of interesting stories and all the original buildings still intact. It is a wonderful walk, with leiwater streams, the town is still mostly untouch and safe with friendly people.
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