Friemersheim

Friemersheim
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Coordinates: 33°57′19″S 22°08′33″E
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
District	Garden Route
Municipality	Mossel Bay
Government
• Councillor	Donovan Claassen (DA)
Area
• Total	2.33 km2 (0.90 sq mi)
Population  (2011)
• Total	1,235
• Density	530/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Racial makeup (2011)
• Black African	0.6%
• Coloured	94.3%
• Indian/Asian	0.4%
• White	2.4%
• Other	2.2%
First languages (2011)
• 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.

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. It remained in the ownership of the Dutch Reformed Church until the 1960s, when it was sold to the state.

Friemersheim, in Germany, after which Friemersheim was named.