Braunschweig, South Africa

Braunschweig is a small town in the Eastern Cape province, South Africa.

Braunschweig
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Coordinates: 32.785°S 27.369°E / -32.785; 27.369
Country	South Africa
Province	Eastern Cape
District	Amathole
Municipality	Amahlathi
Elevation	426 m (1,398 ft)
Time zone	UTC+2 (SAST)
Area code	043

Braunschweig, situated in the former district of King William's Town, is one of the villages that were established after the arrival of the German Legion and German settlers in British Kaffraria in and after 1857.[1] It is represented today solely by a Lutheran church complex consisting of the neo-Gothic church, a parsonage and a school building, surrounded by veld. The original church building established by the Lutherans in 1866-7 was a simple structure under thatch, while the present church was built in 1904.[1]

The St Peter's Lutheran Church was closed in September 1985, when the apartheid government sold the land and the nearby farms to the Ciskei government. Before then, all the farms around it were owned by Germans who attended the church. The congregation built a new church in Komga, which was opened in 1989.[1]