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Names: Eros Fort Other Site Details
Classification  | A.08.4. Historical and Military Sites, Military Fortifications and Sites
Proclamation No  | 010/1951
Place  | Windhoek, Eros Mountains
Region  | Khomas
Site Environment  | 100 m from the waterfalls.
Previous Use  | Fortification.
Current Use  | None.
Refences  | Official Gazette 1518, No. 166, 1951. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p.121-122.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 01.03.1951 by the Historical Monuments Commission for South West Africa (HMC).
     

Description

Roofless redoubt, walls of piled flat stones, loopholes.

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Brief History

The post is part of a series of fortification erected by the Germans around Windhoek in 1893 against possible attacks by the Witbooi-Nama.
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