Friemersheim
Friemersheim is a settlement in Garden Route District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
A small agricultural community about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from Groot-Brakrivier, Friemersheim was founded by a German missionary in the early 19th century. In 1869, through the efforts of Reverend Johann Kretzen of the Berliner Missionary Society, a school and church were built on the farm Gonnakraal, which Kretzen had bought for his sister.[3]
After his sister's death in 1872, he bequeathed the farm to the Dutch Reformed Missionary Society, and it was later renamed Friemersheim, after Kretzen's town of birth in Germany.[4] It remained in the ownership of the Dutch Reformed Church until the 1960s, when it was sold to the state.[3]
References
- ^ "Ward Councillors". Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ a b c d "Main Place Friemersheim" – via Census 2011.
- ^ a b "Friemersheim, South Africa". Southern Cape. Archived from the original on 8 January 2014. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ "Friemersheim" (PDF). Provincial Government of the Western Cape. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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