List of German place names in South Africa

Last updated April 17, 2025

The following is an incomplete list of German place names in South Africa. The namesakes (if there are any) of places shown in brackets.

List

Amaliënstein (Amalie von Stein)^[1]
Anhalt-Schmidt, the former name of Haarlem, Western Cape.^[1]
Berlin (Berlin)^[1]
Braunschweig (Braunschweig)
Breidbach (Breitbach)
Cassel (Kassel)
Döhne (Jacob Ludwig Döhne)^[1]
Frankfort, Eastern Cape (Frankfurt)^[1]
Frankfort, Free State (Frankfurt)^[1]
Friemersheim (Freimersheim)
Glückstadt (Glückstadt)
Hamburg (Hamburg)^[1]
Hanover (Hanover)^[1]
Heidelberg, former name of Bethulie ^[1]
Heidelberg, Gauteng (Heidelberg)^[1]
Heidelberg, Western Cape (Heidelberg)^[1]
Hermannsburg (Hermannsburg)^[1]
Lüneburg (Lüneburg)^[1]
Muden (Müden)^[1]
New Germany, KwaZulu-Natal, formerly Neu-Deutschland^[1]
New Hanover (Hanover)^[1]
Potsdam (Potsdam)
Spandau Kop, Graaff-Reinet (Spandau)^[1]
Steinkopf (Dr Steinkopf)^[1]
Stutterheim (Richard von Stutterheim)^[1]
Wartburg (Wartburg)^[1]
Wupperthal (Wuppertal)^[1]

References

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Raper, P.E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (PDF). Retrieved 18 February 2024.

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[per-1] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Raper, P.E. (1987). Dictionary of Southern African Place Names (PDF). Retrieved 18 February 2024.

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