Fort Naiams

Fort Naiams (ǁNai-Ams)
National monument in Namibia
Monument type	Historical and Military Sites: Military forts and territories
location	Seeheim
Geographic coordinates :	26 ° 48 '59 " S , 17 ° 47' 53" E Coordinates: 26 ° 48 '59 " S , 17 ° 47' 53" E
Emergence	1898
Recognized ; by the National Heritage Council	May 1, 1967
Deprivation
Sponsorship
Website	NHC Namibia

Fort Naiams plaque

Fort Naiams , actually ǁNai-Ams ( German also ǁNai-Ams-Schanze , Afrikaans ǁNai-Ams Skans , English ǁNai-Ams Fortification ) is a ruin of a military fortress near the Namibian town of Seeheim . It was built in 1898 by the German Schutztruppe and served as a defense against Nama raids and to protect the nearby waterhole. The graves of two Schutztruppe soldiers are right next to the fort and the hill is 400 meters from the B4 national road.

Fort Naiams is a National Monument in Namibia .

Web links

Commons : Fort Naiams - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Historical photo of the fort

annotation

↑ Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

Individual evidence

↑ Website of the Seeheim Hotel . Zirkie Kloppers. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved on December 30, 2008.
^ Andreas Vogt : National Monuments in Namibia - An inventory of the proclaimed national monuments in the Republic of Namibia , Gamsberg Macmillan Verlag, Windhoek, 2004.

[Khivorlage-1] Note: This article contains characters from the alphabet of the Khoisan languages spoken in southern Africa . The display contains characters of the click letters ǀ , ǁ , ǂ and ǃ . For more information on the pronunciation of long or nasal vowels or certain clicks , see e.g. B. under Khoekhoegowab .

[2] Website of the Seeheim Hotel . Zirkie Kloppers. Archived from the original on December 29, 2008. Retrieved on December 30, 2008.

[3] Andreas Vogt : National Monuments in Namibia - An inventory of the proclaimed national monuments in the Republic of Namibia , Gamsberg Macmillan Verlag, Windhoek, 2004.