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Cemetery on Farm Mooifontain
Other Site Details
Classification  | A.07.2 Burial Grounds, Cemeteries
Proclamation No  | 049/1969
Place  | Helmeringhausen, Farm Mooifontain
Region  | Karas
Site Environment  | Farm
Refences  | Official Gazette 2977, No. 19, 1969. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p. 68.
Legal Status  | Declared as National Monument on 15.03.1969 by the Historical Monuments Commission for South West Africa (HMC).
     

Description

Beside the graves, there is a small chapel-shaped structure from stone and iron with marble plates that carry the soldiers' names, encircled by a wall with an iron gate made from wagon wheel rims.

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Brief History

This farm used to be a German military post called \"Chamis\"The cemetery contains a small number of graves of German soldiers and civilians who fell in the Nama wars 1903-1907.
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