Nexbed Hotel Middelburg

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LUXURY EN-SUITE ROOMS:
• Double rooms with Queen size bed and en-suite bath and shower.
• Single rooms with 3/4 bed and a en-suite shower.

BREAKFAST:
Mon - Fridays: 6:30 - 8:00
Sat & Sundays: 7:30 - 8:30

LUNCH
Available on request.

DINNER
18:00 till 19:00 (bookings only)

Our staff are known for making impeccable hospitality seem absolutely effortless.

We are Less than 1 1/2 hours drive from Pretoria, Johannesburg and OR Tambo International Airport and 2 hours drive from Nelspruit.

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Things to do
Midwater Sentrum (Middelburg)
The Cultural Heartland.

Erlank Garrery
Church Street.

Amora Bird Park & Tea Garden
133 Cowen Ntuli Street.

Little Elephant Arts & Crafters Market
Cowen Ntuli Street, next to Midway Inn.

Mascot Cine
Voortrekker Street, Mascot Centre.

Middelburg Golf Course
Eufees Road.

Sights - Historical Route Middelburg

ENGLISH BRIDGE
This bridge was built by the British to get to their garrison. The bridge is still in a good condition.

OLD CEMENTARY AND BLOCKHOUSE
Here you will find a blockhouse that is in a fairly good condition. Also notice the two graves of Henry Slegtkamp and Jack Hindon. These two were key roll players during the Boer war.

NATIONAL MONUMENT
This monument was erected after the war to commemorate those that fought and died during the Anglo Boer War.

CONCENTRATION CAMP CEMETERY
This graveyard came to being when the concentration camp moved there. 922 children died in the Middelburg area during 1899-1901. In the Boer woman’s diaries they write of the black concentration camps. Notice the pile of rocks lying north of the graves.

That is a black cemetery and is known to be the only black graveyard in South Africa that is within walking distance from a white one. There are only three known black cemeteries in South Africa.

OLD CANON BLOCKHOUSE
When driving +/- 1km on the Stoffberg road, you will see a beacon on the left-hand side of the road. Notice that the beacon is situated on top of an old blockhouse that has been filled with rocks. Legend has it that a canon was inside it and “watched” over the town.

THE “EYE”
This vanished structure used to be a light tower, used to look over the camps. The children, who played around there, called the structure The Big Eye.

MEIJERSBRIDGE (1896)
This historical bridge used to be the only crossing over the little Olifants River. Cattle auctions normally took place here. From the bridge the road split into two, one towards Groblersdal and one towards Belfast.

THE OLD CHURCH
Directly after the war, women decided to erect a church in memory of the women and children who were held in concentration camps. This building was used in the earlier days as a hospital. The church is now being maintained by the Technical High School and is still being used for services by the school.

DRIFT
If you look very carefully on the corner of Luttig and Vos streets, you will see that the park has a distinctive drift running through it. This is the path where the woman walked from the station to the concentration camp.

NEW CEMETERY
When you go to the old part of the cemetery, you will notice that there are many graves of children, women and old men who died during the war. The reason for this being that there was a concentration camp right next to the cemetery. Also notice the amount of people who died in various concentration camps nationwide listed on a monument nearby.

CANAL
Driving along Robertson Street you have to look very carefully to notice the canal running along the road. This canal was used to get water form Rietfontein to Kruger Dam. This was efficient to supply the town with water up until 1967.

ENGLISH BRIDGE
As you enter the Middelburg Country Club you will drive over a very old bridge. If one looks closely one notice that this bridge looks much the same as our first stop. The reason for this is that it was build at the same time as the first one, by the same people. The only difference is that this one has two arches, instead of only one.

TREE LANE
On the corner of McDonald Street and Hospital Street is a park. If you look at the trees it is fairly obvious that they are over 100 years old. Notice that the trees are situated in a fairly strait line. This was the lane, which led to the English Garrison. It is uncertain what the purpose of the two structures nearby was.

WHITE CHURCH
Proclaimed a historical monument, this is a true landmark of Middelburg due to its size and architectural design. British soldiers used it during the second Anglo Boer War, which explains why it did not get damaged like so many other churches during that time.

OLD MIDDELBURG RAILWAY STATION (1890
)On 17 May 1884 Paul Kruger and portugal entered into an agreement to develop a railway line between Pretoria and Delgoa Bay (now Maputo). Although the station was in use since 1890, it was only completed in 1894.

BOTSHABELO HISTORICAL VILLAGE(Place of shelter)
The Botshabelo museumTypical 19th Century self-sustaining mission village. On 21 January 1865 Alexander Merensky and Heinrich Grutzner two missionaries from Berlin Mission Society bought a farm approximately 12km north of Middelburg for the sum of 500 Prussian talers (R150).

The village originally had two schools, a training center, and numerous missionary houses, trade centers, a blacksmith’s shop and a printing shop where Bibles were first published in Sotho. Botshabelo was largely self-sufficient, expanded rapidly and in 1873 there were 1315 inhabitants.

Church and Parsonage
The old Church (1865) and the second church (1868-1873) When the smaller pioneer style church was no longer adequate, a bigger church was built in 1868. A total of 300 00 bricks were made locally and the church was completed in March 1868.

The church was later extended into a cross formation which can still be seen. On completion the church was opened in October 1871. A brick house was erected next to the church as a parsonage.

Fort Merensky
This restored fort with a commanding view of the whole area, protected the mission station for free quarters of the century and its dominating presence deterred invaders. Along the Fort’s ridge are many ruins of old houses once occupied by pioneers and guards at Botshabelo. The fort was a unique blend of Western and Sotho architecture.

Ndebele Open Air Museum
The South Ndeblele Open-Air Museum at Botshabelo depicts the cultural characteristics and features of the Ndebele and includes traditional activities such as beadwork, their richly coloured clothing and painted huts, can still be seen here in practice.

Night Life
Riverside Estate (Middelburg) Cowen Ntuli Street. Ball & All Sports BarChurch Street. The Ridge Casino (Witbank) Next to the N4 highway.

About the Cultural Heartland
The Cultural Heartland immerses visitors in colourful Ndebele culture and winds through the north western towns of Witbank, Middelburg, Siyabuswa, Groblersdal, Marble Hall and Roossenekal. The Ndebele people are world famous for their vibrant house painting, bead work and crafts, all of which are on display at cultural villages in the region.

The Heartland also has a Boer War route ideal for history buffs.Visitors can also see the mining and farming industry as never before by going on industrial and agricultural tours to collieries and farms, while plant enthusiasts will find that the lanatus cycad is indigenous to the region and that a plethora of wild flowers like arum lilies transform the area into a magical garden during summer.

Population and LanguageSouth Africa's population is approximately 43 million, with Mpumalanga having a population of 4 million. South Africa has 11 official languages, Afrikaans, English, isiNdebele, siSwati and xiTsonga being the most widely spoken.

HistoryMiddelburg was established as Nasareth, in 1864 by the Voortrekkers on the banks of the Klein Olifants River. The name was changed in 1872 to Middelburg to mark its situation midway between Pretoria and Lydenburg.

Climate
Hot to very hot in summer, especially in the lowveld regions. Mild in winter, but can become very cold in the highveld areas. Mpumalanga is a summer rainfall area.

Nexbed Hotel Location
Situated in the Heart of the Cultural Heartland, in the quiet, leafy town of Middelburg, you are close to the hottest spots, yet perfectly removed.

Less than 1 1/2 hours drive from Pretoria, Johannesburg and OR Tambo International Airport and 2 hours drive from Nelspruit - on route to the Kruger National Park.

Email Nexbed Hotel Reservations: booksa@madbookings.com