Friemersheim
Template:Infobox South African town Friemersheim is a settlement in Eden District Municipality in the Western Cape province of South Africa.
A small agricultural community about 15 km from Groot-Brakrivier, Friemersheim was founded by a German missionary in the early nineteenth century.[1] 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.[1]
After his sister's death in 1872, he bequeathed the farm to the Dutch Reformed Missionary Society, and later it was renamed Friemersheim, after Kretzen's town of birth in Germany.[2] It remained in the ownership of the Dutch Reformed Church until the 1960s, when it was sold to the state.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Friemersheim, South Africa". Southern Cape Website. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ^ "Friemersheim" (PDF). Provincial Government of the Western Cape. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
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