Odendaalsrus
Sign in to saveOdendaalsrus is the oldest gold mining town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality in the goldfields of the Free State province in South Africa.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Odendaalsrus
- Settlement.image_skyline
- File:Odendaalsrus1.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- Street in downtown Odendaalsrus.
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- South Africa Free State#South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- South Africa
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Free State
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Lejweleputswa
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Municipality
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Matjhabeng
- Settlement.subdivision_type4
- Main Place
- Settlement.established_title
- Established
- Settlement.established_date
- 1912
- Settlement.leader_title
- Councillor
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 42.1
- Settlement.population_total
- 63743
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- South Africa
- Located in
- Matjhabeng Local Municipality
- Elevation
- 1339
- Image
- NG Kerk Odendaalsrus.jpg
- Dialing code
- 057
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- inception
- 1912-01-01
- postal code
- 9480
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Odendaalsrus is the oldest gold mining town in the Lejweleputswa District Municipality in the goldfields of the Free State province in South Africa.
==History== It started out in 1912 as a ramshackle collection of farms and a central church that became a town. In April 1946 gold was struck on the farm Geduld near the town. This discovery was mentioned in Alan Paton's novel Cry, the Beloved Country.
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