Döhne is a South African agricultural research station 6 kilometres north of Stutterheim in the Eastern Cape.

The program bred for high fertility, rapid lamb growth and fine wool production under pastoral conditions.

On 24 September 1834, the Berlin Missionary Society's first South African mission station, Bethany, was founded on the Riet River between Edenburg and Trompsburg in the Orange Free State.

With the closing of the Eastern Cape missions, the focus of the Berlin Missionary Society shifted to Natal and the Transvaal.

[3] The settlement was named Döhne after Jacob Ludwig Döhne (1811–1879),[4] the lexicographer and philologist from the Berlin Missionary Society, who was responsible for compiling A Zulu-Kafir Dictionary (Cape Town, 1857) after spending twenty years documenting the language and dialects, also translating the New Testament into Xhosa and Zulu.