Wupperthal

On the road past Leipoldts Grave, Sevilla Art, The English man s Grave the road splits and becomes gravel.

Wupperthal to your right and Niewoudtsville and Calvinia you go straight.

Wupperthal is a small village in the Cederberg Mountains founded in 1830 by two German Rhenish Missionaries, Theobold Von Wurmb and Johann Gottlieb Leipoldt the grandfather of C. Louis Leipoldt.

In 1865 it became a Movarian mission station.

The name Wupperthal derived from the Wupper River in Germany.

In 2018 a fire broke out and practically destroyed the whole village. It is in the process of being rebuilt and nearly completed.

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