Coach House Hotel & Spa

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Type: Hotel
Hotel Group: Orion Hotels

Contact Details

Coach House Hotel & Spa

Telephone
Work +27 (0)15 306 8000
Work
Fax
Email Address
Website
www.coachhousehotel.co.za
Address
Old Coach Roach
Agatha, Tzaneen, Limpopo, 0850
South Africa
GPS Coordinates
S23°56’41.3” E30°09’17.0”

Orion Hotels

Telephone
Work 086 199 1199
Work +27 (0)11 718 5100
Work
Work
Fax
Fax +27 (0)11 718 6458
Fax
Email Address
Website
www.orionhotels.co.za
Address
16th Floor, Orion House, 49 Jorissen Street
Braamfontein, Johannesburg, Gauteng,
South Africa

The Coach House Hotel and Spa at Agatha is a heritage hotel standing near the site of the original staging post built by Heinrich Schulte Altenroxel and Conrad Plange in 1892.

The Zeederberg Coach Company used it for resting and changing their teams of mules and oxen before tackling the final step along the tortuous road leading to Thabina, Leydsdorp and the Lowveld. At the time, Pietersburg was the starting point of many coach routes: one going to Bulawayo via Rhodes Drift and the Tuli block; another via Haenertsburg and the Kloof to the early farming settlement of Krabbefontein (now Merensky School); or via Munnik to Westfalia and other early settler areas. One route led to Leydsdorp via Haenertsburg and Agatha.

Parts of this old coach road are still in existence today, with many stretches of the present road on New Agatha following the old coach route.