Piketberg (also sometimes spelt Piquetberg in the past) is a town in the Western Cape, South Africa, located about 80 km east of Saldanha Bay.

Piketberg has a large Dutch Reformed Church designed by the architect Carl Otto Hager in his trademark neo-Gothic style.

[citation needed] The Picquet commando was established in 1711 by the Dutch United East India Company (VOC) and consisted of a squad of 15 Riflemen of the Militia and a single 80 mm field cannon for protection against depredations of natives and wild animals.

The cannon also fired on special occasions like Queen Victoria's birthday and the arrival of the town's first telephone line.

[citation needed] Lodewyk Ando Simon, of Hungarian Jewish descent, moved from nearby Redelinghuys to Piketberg and built the synagogue in 1925.

[citation needed] The University of Cape Town's Kaplan Centre houses several of the synagogue's historic documents.

In February 2004 descendants of Piketberg's lost Jewish community celebrated their roots with a tree planting ceremony.