Hoachanas

settlement Hoachanas
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Hoachanas - facing southwest (2019)
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Population Area Population Density	3500
State Region Constituency	Namibia Hardap Mariental-Land
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Hoachanas (2009)

Mission Church

Hoachanas , actually !Hoaxa!nâs , is a place with about 3500 inhabitants in the Hardap - Region of Namibia . The place is about 140 km southeast of Rehoboth .

Bitterwasser Airfield is located about seven kilometers northwest of Hoachanas .

Since 2015, a cultural center, sports field and museum for almost ten million Namibian dollars have been built as part of the Namibian-German Special Initiative Program .

history

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From the 17th century Hoachanas was the settlement center of the Red Nation , i. H. the Nama, based in South West Africa . From here the respective captain, recognized by all Nama societies, exercised his right to give instructions to all other Nama settling in the south of the country and led his numerous campaigns against the Herero advancing from the north . But not only wars emanated from Hoachanas: On January 9, 1858, the important "Peace Treaty of Hoachanas" between the captain of the Red Nation, Cornelis Oasib and the captain of the Orlam Africans Jonker Afrikaner was concluded. This date marks the height of the power of the Nama (and the Orlam Africans ). It is noteworthy from this period that Oasib had set up free guest accommodations for passing traders and researchers and even set up an immigration police in Hoachanas to protect travelers.

On December 19, 1867, Hoachanas was again the scene of a peace treaty - but with the opposite meaning: After a campaign of losses by the allied Africans and Nama against the Witbooi , the Nama had to surrender and at the same time give up their supremacy over all other Nama societies, so that this "2. The Hoachanas Peace Agreement “marked the low point of the Nama power. The place lost more and more of its importance and only appeared in the chronicles in 1885 as the place of the conclusion of a "protection treaty" with the German colonial administration and then again in 1887/88, when the Hoachanas successfully attacked the Witbooi three times and almost completely in connection with disagreements about the succession of the Kapteins was destroyed. In 1904, Hoachana's garrison became part of the German Schutztruppe and lost its name as the “ capital of the Nama” - the place had already lost its importance in 1867.

Sons and daughters of the settlement

• Katrina Hanse-Himarwa , Namibian politician and former Minister of Education

Buildings

The mission church of Hoachanas was built in 1857 at the instigation of the German missionary Vollmer of the Rhenish Mission and is thus the second oldest church building in Namibia.

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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 .

Web links

Commons : Hoachanas  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hoachanas on a map of German South West Africa
2. ↑ Iipumbu assesses NGSIP projects: Namibia Press Agency (NAMPA) 14 July 2016th
3. ↑ Hardap Region. NGSIP. Retrieved July 14, 2016.

Coordinates: 23 ° 55 ′  S , 18 ° 3 ′  E