In November and December 1838, with Angas' support, Pastor Kavel brought German emigrants to the colony. The new immigrants were settled on the Adelaide Plains near the River Torrens on land belonging to Angas, who also envisaged that these refugees would provide reliable labour in the new colony. The immigrants named their village Klemzig after their home town in Germany. Klemzig market gardens - and from 1839, those in Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills - supplied Adelaide colonists with fresh vegetables.

By 1841, Klemzig included more than 400 settlers, 100 homes, and 350 cattle (Colwell, p. 38). Some of the villagers later moved to settle in the Barossa Valley region.

George Fife Angas' son, artist George French Angas painted some of the earliest views of South Australia. Arriving in Adelaide in January 1844, he rapidly set about an extensive series of journeys to the Murray Lakes, Barossa Valley, Fleurieu Peninsula and the South East, capturing his impressions of the young colony-its landscapes, its inhabitants and the flora and fauna.

In 1847 Angas published the folio South Australiaillustrated, which included 'Klemzic. A village of German settlers near Adelaide'. An extract from the text accompanying the illustration reads:
About three miles from Adelaide is situated the picturesque village of Klemzic, on the banks of the Torrens: it is entirely populated by one of the various bodies of Prussian Emigrants ... their houses and cultivation are in the style of their own country ... Poultry, butter, vegetables, and fruit, are frequently brought into Adelaide for sale by the women, whose picturesque style of dress, and simplicity of manners, obtain for these peasants a considerable share of custom.

Klemzig (S. Aust.)

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