Tulbagh

Tulbagh
Tulbagh, Western Cape
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Coordinates: 33°17′6″S 19°8′16″E / 33.28500°S 19.13778°E / -33.28500; 19.13778Coordinates: 33°17′6″S 19°8′16″E / 33.28500°S 19.13778°E / -33.28500; 19.13778
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
District	Cape Winelands
Municipality	Witzenberg
Established	1795
Area
• Total	3.81 km2 (1.47 sq mi)
Elevation	180 m (590 ft)
Population (2011)
• Total	8,969
• Density	2,400/km2 (6,100/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	22.7%
• Coloured	69.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.2%
• White	6.9%
• Other	0.8%
First languages (2011)
• Afrikaans	74.4%
• Xhosa	18.3%
• English	3.6%
• Sotho	2.0%
• Other	1.7%
Postal code (street)	6820
PO box	6820
Area code	023

Tulbagh, named after Dutch Cape Colony Governor Ryk Tulbagh, is a town located in the "Land van Waveren" mountain basin (also known as the Tulbagh basin), in the Winelands of the Western Cape, South Africa. The basin is fringed on three sides by mountains, and is drained by the Klein Berg river and its tributaries. The nearest towns are Ons Rust and Gouda beyond the Nuwekloof Pass, Wolseley some 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to the south inside the basin, and Ceres and Prince Alfred Hamlet beyond Michell's Pass in the Warm Bokkeveld.

The basin has been inhabited for thousands of years by indigenous Bushmen and Khoi peoples. It was about 300 years ago when, after a land grant by the Dutch Colonial Government to a more or less equal number of Dutch and Huguenot settlers to settle the area, that the town of Tulbagh was founded. The region was named "Land van Waveren" in 1699 by Willem Adriaan van der Stel in honour of the Oetgens van Waveren family, from which his mother was descended. Before this date, but also subsequent to it, the region had also been known as Roodezand ("red sand"). The region corresponds to the present Tulbagh district, named after Governor Ryk Tulbagh. The town developed slowly and over time and in the period many notable examples of Cape Dutch architecture, Victorian and Edwardian houses and other buildings such as the Oude Kerk (1743) and the Oude Drosdy (the original colonial Magistrate's complex) were built.