Wupperthal

Wupperthal
Church in Wuppertal
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Coordinates: 32°16′27″S 19°12′33″E / 32.27417°S 19.20917°E / -32.27417; 19.20917
Country	South Africa
Province	Western Cape
District	West Coast
Municipality	Cederberg
Population [1]
• Total	1,568
Racial Makeup (2011) [2]
• Coloured	97.26%
• Black African	1.80%
• Other	0.94%
First languages (2011) [2]
• Afrikaans	96.77%
• English	1.66%
• Other	1.57%
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Postal code (street)	8138
PO box	8138

Wupperthal (sometimes also spelt Wuppertal) is a small town in the Cederberg mountains in the Western Cape province of South Africa. It was founded in 1830 by two German missionaries of the Rhenish Missionary Society (Rheinische Mission), Theobald von Wurmb and Johann Gottlieb Leipoldt, grandfather of C. Louis Leipoldt – some 100 years before the city of Wuppertal was formally established in Germany. In 1965, after the Rhenish Mission had gradually scaled down their activities in Southern Africa over a period of 40 years, a decision was taken that Wupperthal in future should become part of the Moravian Church, which by that stage had already made the transition from a mission to an autonomous church in South Africa. The town remains a Moravian mission station to this day.