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Marine-Denkmal
Names: Monument to the Marines Other Site Details
Classification  | A.09.1. Statues and Shrines, Military Memorials
Proclamation No  | 047/1969
Place  | Swakopmund
Region  | Erongo
Previous Use  | Commemorative services.
Refences  | Official Gazette 2951, No. 1, 1969. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p. 85-88.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 02.01.1969 by the Historical Monuments Commission for South West Africa (HMC).
     

Description

Rocky hill from granite and concrete, on which the bronze sculptures of a wounded or fallen marine lies and another stands.

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Brief History

The monument, designed by Albert Moritz Wolf (1884-1923) and inaugurated on 01.08.1908, commemorates the important role of the marines in the Herero rebellion in 1904, especially in Karibib and Otjimbingwe. Decided to erect the memorial in whk but placed at swk because it was more appropriate at the harbour and port of the colony.
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