Friemersheim

{{Infobox settlement | name = Friemersheim | pushpin_map = South Africa Western Cape#South Africa | coordinates = {{coord|33|57|19|S|22|08|33|E|region:ZA|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = [[South Africa]] | subdivision_type1 = Province | subdivision_name1 = [[Western Cape]] | subdivision_type2 = District | subdivision_name2 = [[Garden Route District Municipality|Garden Route]] | subdivision_type3 = Municipality | subdivision_name3 = [[Mossel Bay Local Municipality|Mossel Bay]] | subdivision_type4 = Main Place | established_title = Established | leader_title = Councillor | leader_name = Donovan Claassen ([[Democratic Alliance (South Africa)|DA]])<ref name="Mossel Bay">{{cite web |url=https://www.mosselbay.gov.za/leadership-index?submit=accept |title= Ward Councillors |access-date=5 July 2024}}</ref> | area_footnotes = <ref name="census2011">{{cite web |url=http://census2011.adrianfrith.com/place/176004 |title = Main Place Friemersheim |via=Census 2011}}</ref> | area_total_km2 = 2.33 | population_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | population_total = 1235 | population_as_of = 2011 | population_density_km2 = auto | demographics_type1 = Racial makeup (2011) | demographics1_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics1_title1 = [[Bantu peoples of South Africa|Black African]] | demographics1_info1 = 0.6% | demographics1_title2 = [[Coloureds|Coloured]] | demographics1_info2 = 94.3% | demographics1_title3 = [[Indian South African|Indian]]/[[Asian South African|Asian]] | demographics1_info3 = 0.4% | demographics1_title4 = [[White South African|White]] | demographics1_info4 = 2.4% | demographics1_title5 = Other | demographics1_info5 = 2.2% | demographics_type2 = [[First language]]s (2011) | demographics2_footnotes = <ref name="census2011" /> | demographics2_title1 = [[Afrikaans]] | demographics2_info1 = 97.7% | demographics2_title2 = | demographics2_info2 = | demographics2_title3 = | demographics2_info3 = | demographics2_title4 = | demographics2_info4 = | demographics2_title5 = Other | demographics2_info5 = 2.3%  | timezone1 = [[South African Standard Time|SAST]] | utc_offset1 = +2 | postal_code_type = [[List of postal codes in South Africa|Postal code]] (street) | postal_code = 6525 | postal2_code_type = [[Post-office box|PO box]] | postal2_code = 6526 | area_code_type = [[Telephone numbers in South Africa|Area code]] }} '''Friemersheim''' is a settlement in [[Garden Route District Municipality]] in the [[Western Cape]] province of [[South Africa]].

A small agricultural community about {{convert|15|km}} 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 [[Berlin Missionary Society|Berliner Missionary Society]], a school and church were built on the farm Gonnakraal, which Kretzen had bought for his sister.<ref name=scw>{{cite web |title=Friemersheim, South Africa |url=http://www.southerncape.co.za/towns/friemersheim/welcome.php |website=Southern Cape |access-date=8 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140108053138/http://www.southerncape.co.za/towns/friemersheim/welcome.php |archive-date=8 January 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

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.<ref name=pgwc>{{cite web |title=Friemersheim |url=http://www.westerncape.gov.za/other/2003/friemersheim.pdf |publisher=Provincial Government of the Western Cape |access-date=8 January 2014}}</ref> It remained in the ownership of the [[Dutch Reformed Church]] until the 1960s, when it was sold to the state.<ref name=scw/> [[File:Duisburg, Friemersheim, Dorf, 2013-02 CN-01.jpg|thumb|Friemersheim, in [[Germany]], after which Friemersheim was named.]] ==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:Populated places in the Mossel Bay Local Municipality]]