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Date: 1892 Type: Church Status: Ruin   Click to view map Coordinates: 26°41'05.03" S 28°19'45.52" E Alt: 1519m

See more photographs Built by Hermann Albin. In 1877, Hermann started building a church in Heidelberg. He was a qualified carpenter and did all the woodwork in the church himself – the pulpit, baptism bowl and church benches. Hermann came to South Africa in 1869 as a missionary and worked in Lydenburg and Botshabelo until 1875. With the inauguration of the church in 1878 there were already 200 people attending and in 1879 there were 63 children visiting the school daily. The inhabitants of Heidelberg objected against the mission work and complained about the representative of the foreman Sebolo and his followers. Herman bought the farm Rietspruit in 1881, about 30 kilometres from Heidelberg where he established a new mission station which he named Woyenthin, after the farm of the Holtz family in Germany that donated a lot of money. In 1884 Hermann moved to Woyenthin and worked there until his retirement. In 1892 he built this church.