Up until the founding of the Keetmanshoop congregation, the entire area known then as South West Africa (SWA) was divided between the two mother churches.
Before Keetmanshoop was given its current name, it was known as Swartmodder (in Khoekhoe Nu Gôias) and was known for the many murders committed there.
Schröder who founded a mission here that year on behalf of the Rhenish Missionary Society (RMS).
de Villiers, as well as a large primary school in town and three more in the congregational district.
Given the two separations and several later ones, Keetmanshoop was left by 1950 with around 1,000 confirmed members and a total of 1,800 people including those baptized.
With the depopulation of the Namibian countryside, the Southern Ring (to which the Mariental church belonged) had 2,600 members in 2012, compared to around 5,800 members in 1952, before congregations were added in Karasburg (1952), Stampriet (1955), Aroab (1955), Kalkrand (1960), and Ariamsvlei (1962).