Windhoek Highlands Park

Windhoek Highlands Park
Coordinates	22 ° 34 ′  S , 17 ° 4 ′  E Coordinates: 22 ° 34 ′  S , 17 ° 4 ′  E
Basic data
Country	Namibia
region	Khomas
District of	Windhoek
Constituency	Windhoek West
height	1750 m
Telephone code	(+264)  61
Map of the highland park in the urban area of Windhoek

Hochland Park (also Hochlandpark ) is a district of the Namibian capital Windhoek .

Hochland Park is bordered by the districts of Windhoek-Central and Windhoek-West in the west, Dorado Park in the north, Tauben Glen and Acacia in the east and Pionierspark in the south. Due to its relatively central location, this district is a popular residential area for Windhoek's upper middle class. Although originally conceived as an area exclusively for whites, it is now one of the best-mixed parts of the city.

Hochland Park is named after the Khomas highlands .

History and political significance

Former old shipyard around 1906.

Hochland Park was built in the late 1960s on the area of ​​the former " Old Location ", one of the Windhoek ghettos at the time, after the black residents of this district were resettled , sometimes by force, in the Katutura district . The peak of the attacks occurred on December 10, 1959, when police shot and killed 11 people and injured another 44. This day went down in Namibia's history as the "uprising in the Alte Werft" ( Old location uprising ) . It is also the main reason that December 10th, Human Rights Day , is a national holiday in Namibia .

In 1968 the old location was officially closed and white people settled there. For blacks who took part in the resistance struggle against apartheid and who achieved political influence and prosperity after Namibia's independence in 1990, it is partly a political statement to move to this district from which their ancestors were driven by the whites . Many ministers and state secretaries and the inspector general of the police live in Hochland Park today.

Street names

As in most parts of Windhoek, the street names in Hochland Park are thematically limited; As in the newer neighboring districts of Acacia and Tauben Glen, all streets are named after birds. However, the naming varies according to the languages ​​mainly spoken by the white population preferred by apartheid when the residential area was built: Afrikaans (e.g. Hamerkopweg, Kestrell Straat), English (Goshawk Street, Kingfisher Road) and German (Raben Road, Falkenweg).

See also

• Windhoek
• Namibia
• History of Namibia
• German language in Namibia

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Old Location and Katutura . Namibweb. Retrieved November 6, 2008.