Contact Artefacts please if you have any comments or more information regarding this record.

Menu Home Upfront Now Up Books Towns Structures People Firms Lexicon

Imhoff Battery, Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town Cape Town, Western Cape

Date: 1743 Type: Fortifications Style: Cape Dutch Status: Demolished 1896

The battery stood on the seaward side of the Castle (where Strand Street is now), and was part of a line of fortifications that ran along the Table Bay shore from the Castle to Fort de Knokke in what is now Woodstock. It was demolished to make way for railway lines.