Lüneburg is a farming community in eDumbe Local Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal province of South Africa.

[1] Station of the Hermannsburg Mission Society just south of the Transvaal border, some 17 km north-west of Paulpietersburg.

In 1860, August Hardeland, superintendent of the Hermannsburg Mission, obtained permission from the Zulu king Mpande kaSenzangakhona to establish three missionary stations.

The settlers thus obtained a concession from the South African Republic (Transvaal) government to harvest and sell lumber from the local dense forests.

[4] Jakob Filter, who buried the boy, was ordained the first pastor and built a sod church next door to the graveyard, along with a school a year later.

The school was mainly used for religious instruction,[3] but also taught arithmetic and reading and was the first schoolhouse in the southeastern ZAR (or northern Natal).

The German settlers therefore built a low wall around the church, with a moat watered by an irrigation ditch.