Friemersheim

Friemersheim
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Coordinates: 33°57′19″S 22°08′33″E / 33.95528°S 22.14250°E / -33.95528; 22.14250
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
District	Garden Route
Municipality	Mossel Bay
Government
• Councillor	Donovan Claassen (DA)[1]
Area [2]
• Total	2.33 km2 (0.90 sq mi)
Population  (2011)[2]
• Total	1,235
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011) [2]
• Black African	0.6%
• Coloured	94.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	2.4%
• Other	2.2%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Afrikaans	97.7%
• Other	2.3%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	6525
PO box	6526

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]