House Louw - Heidelberg (Gauteng)

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Built: 1897

Architect: Unidentified

Location: Cnr Van der Westhuizen & H.F. Verwoerd St., Heidelberg

Early Photo.¹

When Rev. Adriaan Jacobus Louw arrived in Heidelberg on 8 April 1893, there was no parsonage available for him and his family. This was because of the ongoing bitter property dispute between the united NG/Hervormde congregation and the breakaway NH faction (the old Hervormde pastorie of Ds. N.J. van Warmelo was at the centre of the conflict). His family stayed temporarily in a hotel; because of his wife’s health, he sent them back to the Cape while he stayed on alone.

The new NG pastorie (the house he and his family eventually occupied) was built using stone and materials salvaged from the old Kruiskerk (the first small church, demolished in 1891).

In December 1896 the church bought two erven (numbers 98 and 99) in Van der Westhuizenstraat from J.A. Smit. The house was officially taken into use on 5 November 1897 (the boundary wall was not yet completed). This is the parsonage where Ds. Louw lived for the rest of his ministry in Heidelberg (1893-1931).

It was renovated and modernised around 1952 and is still in use today as the parsonage of the NG congregation.

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