Wupperthal

Province

Wupper valley (also Wuppertal) is a small town with about 4000 inhabitants in the municipality Cederberg, West Coast district, Western Cape Province in South Africa. It lies in a valley of the Cederberg Mountains in the Western Cape Province, about 200 kilometers northeast of Cape Town.

Was founded the place in 1829 on behalf of the Rhenish Missionary Society of Theobald of Wurmb and Johann Gottlieb Leipoldt from the Set in the valley of the Wupper Barmen. In his diary Leipoldt wrote on naming: " We chose the name Ried moon in Wupper valley turns to the memory of our dear German Wuppertal. "

The former mission station is still a regional center with post office, school, hospital, parish, shops and a shoe and glove factory, are produced in the traditional Veldskoene (field shoes). Of particular economic importance of cultivated rooibos tea in the region.

In the vicinity of the Wupper valley there are rock carvings of San 2000, a trail has been created, which leads in two days past old San drawings, a big waterfall and rock formations of the Wupper valley over Eselbank after Langkloof.

Wupper valley is connected by a road over the Pakhuis Pass with the district capital of Clanwilliam.