Work in the colony proved difficult to find, the immigrants had poor command of english and wished to remain together.   The group that had arrived on the Prince George were settled in an area north east of Adelaide on the banks of the river Torrens in December of 1839.  The land offered by Flaxman consisted of two parcels of 134 acres (sections 491 and 492 in the district of Yatala) and was leased from George Fife Angas at five shillings an acre.   The villiage was named Klemzig after the town of the same name in Prussia where Kavel had ministered.  Each family was allocated about five acres for cultivation.  Angas loaned the settlers a sum of £1200 at 15% interest per annum to aid the settlers in getting started.

The group of Prussian Immigrants who arrived on the Catharina were initially settled at Glen Osmond on land owned by the Colonial Treasurer Osmond Gilles.  However the land area proved too constrained and many of the group soon moved to Klemzig or Hahndorf.  

Between 1839-1846 most Prussian settlers in South Australia passed through Klemzig on their way to other settlements.  In 1842 group of Klemzig residents including Kavel formed the Langmeil settlement.