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Eagle Monument
Other Site Details
Classification  | A.09.1. Statues and Shrines, Military Memorials
Proclamation No  | 034/1963
Place  | Keetmanshoop
Region  | Karas
Site Environment  | In the city centre in a small park, next to another memorial that commemorates the fallen of WWII. Placed on a plattform with a bandstand.
Previous Use  | Commemorative services every November.
Refences  | Official Gazette 2786, No. 30, 1967. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p. 92-93.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 01.08.1967 by the Historical Monuments Commission for South West Africa (HMC).
     

Description

In the form of an obelisk that is topped by a bronze eagle.

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Brief History

Erected on an unknown date to commemorate the German soldiers who had been fallen in the Herero and Nama wars (1887, 1903, 1906-1907).
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