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Old Rhenish Mission Station (1840)
Located in
South Africa :: Northern Cape (Richtersveld)
:: Steinkopf
Category:
Attraction :: Mission Station
The village of Steinkopf developed when a group of Nama settled at a fountain approximately 5km south of the current town and called it Tarrakois or Bezondermijd, which means “peculiar girl”. When reverend Heinrich Schmelen of the London Missionary Society arrived in 1818, he renamed it to Steinkopf, after Dr. Karl Steinkopf who donated a large sum of money towards the development of a mission station.
The people gradually moved north and settled at what they called Goegaas, where there was plenty of water in the form of a permanent spring. In 1821 the mission station was moved to Goegaas and the settlement became known as “Kookfontein” (boiling spring). The Rhenish Mission Society took over this station in 1840 and Reverend Ferdinand Brecher built a new church and school, and also restored the name to Steinkopf.
| Address : | Northern Cape (Richtersveld), South Africa |
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