About This Attraction
This commemorates the arrival of the British German Legionaries of 1857 and the German (civilian) Settlers of 1858/9. The pillar feature represents the Brandenburg Gate, a feature of the once-walled city of Berlin. The water represents the sea and the names of the ships which transported the immigrants out, are inscribed around the pond.
On the west wall behind the “Brandenburg gate” are listed settlements to which the immigrants were sent. The central feature of the monument is a drift stone on a plinth of local granite, a gift from the German government who shipped out the stone to South Africa.