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048/1969
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SiteID:
130
FullSiteName:
Lüderitz Memorial
SiteCategory:
Monuments & Memorials
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Citation
Type
Date Retrieved
Official Gazette 2977, No. 19, 1969; and 4172, No. AG57 and AG59. Vogt, Andreas, "National Monuments in Namibia", Windhoek 2004, p. 53-54.
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23/04/2015
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Public - accessible to all site users
Author:
Anonymous (not verified)
Post date:
23/04/2015
Featured Site?:
NO
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Location:
26° 10' 3.36" S
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15° 10' 3.36" E
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PrimaryRecording?:
Yes
SiteReference:
048/1969
RecordingDate:
Thursday, April 23, 2015 - 09:35
AlternateName:
Memorial in the Old Cemetery
Recorders:
Nora Schmidt
Directions:
East of the former Lüderitz bay premises, north of Lüderitz.
SiteComments:
Obelisk-shaped beacon from stone and concrete with 2 inscriptions. 1m² width at the base, 2.2m high. Beacon built from natural stone because the wooden board withered away, a stone platform around the obelisk was to shield it from weathering in 1989. In 1883, Franz Adolf Eduard Lüderitz, the first German trader in Namibia, erected a wooden tablet to mark the territory of the Germans. The stone beacon replaced the table, that was send to the colonial museum in Berlin (closed 1915) in 1903. Beacon doesn’t mark where flag was hoisted in 1884 as believed but the first surveyor’s beacon to identify Luderitz’s acquisitions. The old Nautilus graveyard that surrounded the beacon and gave it its name was relocated to Shark Island in 1977. Thus, the name did not make sense any more and in 1980 its proclamation was replaced and now titled the "Lüderitz Memorial".
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Gazette Date:
15/03/1969
Gazette No: 19
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048/1969 - 23/04/2015
23/04/2015