Marien Hof

MARIENHOF In 1890 Eduard Amadeus Lippert bought part of the farm Braamfontein and rebuilt the farmhouse for himself and his wife, Marie, naming it Marienhof after her death in 1893. Advised by the forester Genth, Lippert started a plantation, later called the Sachsenwald, to supply timber to the mines. The Pro-Boer Lippert obtained the Dynamite Concession, a monopoly, often cited as a cause of the war by the Uitlanders. He also assisted the Boers in buying guns from Germany. Lippert left the Transvaal on the outbreak of war, never to return.