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Monument at Kub
Other Site Details
Classification  | A.08.3.2. Historical and Military Sites, Battle Fields, Colonial Resistance
Proclamation No  | 043/1969
Place  | Kub, Farm Voigtskub, 25 km from Kalkrand
Region  | Hardap
Site Environment  | Memorial stone for the first Afrikaans school at Kub and for 7 Boer volunteers who had also been killed in the herero and nama fight. 2 graveyards - Boer and German - remains of an old police station
Refences  | Official Gazette 2937, No. 68, 1968. Vogt, Andreas, \"National Monuments in Namibia\", Windhoek 2004, p. 93-94.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 01.11.1968 by the Historical Monuments Commission for South West Africa (HMC).
     

Description

Impressive pyramidal structure on a platform, built from stone and cement. It is believed to have been topped by an bronze eagle, but only a spike can be seen by means of which an ornament could have been affixed. A marble plague contains an inscription.

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Brief History

The monument commemorates the fight between the Nama and the Germans on 22.11.1904. 7 German soldiers were killed. Kub had been a flourshing settlement housing the first Afrikaans school which is commemorated by a stone placed in 1953 carrying an inscription. A police station and hotel was also built at Kub. A graveyard of early Boer settlers and fallen German soldiers is also found.

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