Cuba's train station

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Cuba's train station
National monument in Namibia Flag of Namibia.svg
Monument type monument
location at Karibib
Geographic coordinates : 21 ° 56 '12.1 "  S , 15 ° 51' 11.4"  E Coordinates: 21 ° 56 '12.1 "  S , 15 ° 51' 11.4"  E
Cuba's Railway Station (Namibia)
Red pog.svg
Emergence 1900
Recognized
by the National Heritage Council
June 15, 1983
Deprivation
Sponsorship
Website NHC Namibia

The Cuban railway station is a former railway station on the Swakopmund-Windhoek line south of Usakos in Namibia .

The station building was built in 1900 and was declared a national monument ( architectural monument ) on June 15, 1983 . It was built from marble from the nearby Karibib marble works . The ceilings and floors, however, are made of wood.

literature

  • Andreas Vogt : National Monuments in Namibia. An inventory of proclaimed national monuments in the Republic of Namibia. Gamsberg Macmillan, Windhoek 2004, ISBN 9789991605937 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Marble Works Karibib ( Memento from May 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive )