History of Wupperthal

Province: Western Cape
West coast
Coordinates: 19° 12′ 19.80″ E 32° 16′ 16.20″ S
Area:
Municipality: Cedarberg

Wupperthal is a village in the Cedarberg. It was founded in 1830 by two German Rhenish missionaries. JG Leipoldt grandfather of the poet C Louis Leipoldt and Baron Theobald von Wurmb. They bought the farm on the banks of the Tra Tra River. The population increased after 1838 when a large number of freed slaves moved there. The missionaries taught the flock skills such as millinery, bricklaying, thatching, and shoemaking. Today the economy of the town revolves around the cultivation of fruit. Three terraces of thatched and whitewashed houses each have their own garden. Water is transported in open furrows in the narrow lanes.

The postcode for Wupperthal is 8138

WEATHER IN WUPPERTHAL TODAY

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Things to do and see in Wupperthal

• The gabled thatched church in the centre of the village was built in1834
• Blinkberg pass
• Eselbank pass