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Nomination of 'The Lutheran Church', Erf 9245, Cape Town, as a National Heritage Site

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Proposed provisional protection of Erf 9245, Strand Street, Cape Town in terms of Section 29 National Heritage Resources Act 25 of 1999. The proposed protection includes the Lutheran Church, Gold Museum and the Dutch Embassy buildings. In 1764 Martin Melck was granted the block of land bordered by Waterkant-, Bree and Strand Streets (Block 8) for the erection of warehouses. Building of two warehouses commenced with the second warehouse fitted as a church with temporary seating, lectern and small organ. In late 1779 it was finally decreed that the Lutheran Congregation could have their own church. In his will Melck bequeathed the second warehouse to the Church upon his or his wife’s death. After his wife passed away on 1776 and the decree passed allowing the Lutheran Church the warehouse was transferred to the Church in 1781. Melck also donated land for the parsonage and in 1787 the Sexton House was built. The warehouse has operated as the Lutheran Church ever since making it the oldest complete church building from the VOC era, as well as the first church of any denomination other than Dutch Reformed and the first Lutheran Church in South Africa. The National Monuments Council declared the Martin Melck House a National Monument in 1936, and the Church and Sexton House in 1949.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church Complex constitutes a multi-layered site with a combination of cultural landscape, architectural, technical and extraordinary social and spiritual significance. It is symbolic of the successful resistance to Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (“VOC”) domination and a precursor to the freedom of religious worship in South Africa. The site is directly linked, through its archival collection (some dating back as far as the 1740s), with the freeing of slaves and incorporation of freed slaves into the community, and the beginning of institutions of culture and social responsibility. This archival collection is the only known unofficial set of records documenting some of the approaches adopted by a community to resist government oppression, social control and financial sanctions through the baptism of slaves, marriages of freed slave women, and the continued association of those women who were freed and married into the community and brought their children to be baptised in the church. The Church records and correspondence is a unique set of manuscript with the potential to reveal new understandings of ordinary lives at the Cape. The community was made up of slaves, freed slaves (free blacks) and European settlers engaged together in taking care of their fellow members.

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Monday, November 5, 2012 - 15:25

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  1. PDF icon SAHRA 13 SEPTEMBER 2012.pdf
  2. PDF icon Submission to SAHRA council - Lutheran Church, May 2012.pdf
  3. PDF icon 2012 08 13 Motivation for declaration.pdf
  4. PDF icon Erf 174009 referral to SAHRA 10 May 2011.pdf
  5. PDF icon Erf 174009 SPELUM Minutes 13 April 2011.pdf
  6. PDF icon Nomination form - Lutheran Church
 
 

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