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Stone Tower
Other Site Details
Classification  | A.12. Industrial Heritage
Proclamation No  | 027/1957
Place  | Outjo
Region  | Kunene
Site Environment  | Behind the Etosha Hotel.
Instangible Aspects  | The tower is one the last remains of the important base established in Outjo by the German Schutztruppe. The water supply made the development possible.
Previous Use  | Water supply.
Refences  | Official Gazette 2103, No. 191, 1957. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p. 219.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 01.08.1957 by the Historical Monuments Commission for South West Africa (HMC).
     

Description

Square foundation, conic form. Built from stone and clay. Wooden ladder. Information plaque.

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Brief History

Erected in 1900 by the German forces of stone and clay directly over a well with a wooden windmill on top that pumped water into a nearby dam of cement (8 cubic metre).
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