Abbabis

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Abbabis train station
Abbabis train station
Abbabis train station
Data
Location in the network Intermediate station
Platform tracks 1
opening May 30, 1900
Architectural data
Architectural style Stone building
location
region Erongo
Country Namibia
Coordinates 22 ° 8 '30 "  S , 15 ° 43' 28"  E Coordinates: 22 ° 8 '30 "  S , 15 ° 43' 28"  E
Railway lines
i11 i16 i16 i18

Abbabis or Ababis is a May 30, 1900 Opened and now disused train station 165.65 northeast of Swakopmund and 28.61 km south-west of Karibib in Namibia at the old disused narrow gauge - Swakopmund-Windhoek line with 600 mm gauge .

location

Above the train station there used to be a convalescent home where soldiers of the Imperial Protection Force could relax. There are still ruins of the administration building on what is now a cattle pasture. The soldiers' quarters consisted of barracks and tents.

Surname

The etymology of the place name has not yet been finally clarified: The name probably comes from a Khoikhoi language and means something like "red point". Otherwise, as with a farm just under 300 km further south, it might derive from the Nama word "Abas" for pumpkin bottle or calabash .

Todays use

The rails have now been completely removed. Extensions were made to the front and rear of the former stone station building. Today it is used as a well-kept house. The water supply is still provided by the well built at the time.

Pictures of the station building

  • Postcard from the German colonial era

  • Three-color photography by Eduard Kiewning (1907)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Abbabis on a map from the time of German South West Africa
  2. ^ Martin Wollmann: DSWA State Railroad Map.
  3. ↑ Namibia Railways - SL 61: Passenger Stations & Stops, Version of October 27, 2007, §9 State Northern Rly (SNR), p. 2 (English).
  4. ↑ a b Martin Wollmann: The Swakopmund-Windhoek State Railway, Abbabis station, km 165.65 (with many historical and modern photos).
  5. ↑ Erich von Salzmann: In the fight against the Herero. Рипол Классик, 1905.
  6. ^ Peter Edmund Raper: New Dictionary of South African Place Names . Jonathan Ball Publishers , Johannesburg & Cape Town, 2004.
  7. ↑ Walter Moritz: From the old days in the southwest: Ababis, experiences of an Albert Voigt.