Kramersdorf house
| Kramersdorf House / Scultetusheim Kramersdorf Building |
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National monument in Namibia |
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| Monument type | National monument : building | |
| location | Swakopmund | |
| Geographic coordinates : | 22 ° 40 '48.7 " S , 14 ° 32' 3.6" E | |
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| Emergence | 1912 | |
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Recognized by the National Heritage Council |
3rd December 1977 | |
| Deprivation | ||
| Sponsorship | Private | |
| Website | NHC Namibia | |
The Kramersdorf-Haus ( English Kramersdorf Building ), better known as Scultetusheim , is a historic residential building and former boarding school in the Namibian coastal town of Swakopmund .
It has been a National Monument of Namibia since December 3rd, 1977 .
The building was designed and built in 1912 by Friedrich Kramer , a leading employee of Woermann & Brock , as his own residence. In 1932 it was taken over by Major Oskar Scultetus and set up as a boarding school. Afterwards it belonged to the South West Africa Company under the name Jubilee House . The Kramersdorf-Haus / Scultetusheim is currently (as of March 2020) in private ownership.
The Swakopmund-Kramersdorf district is named after Kramer today .
Web links
Commons : Kamersdorf-Haus - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 075/1977 Kramersdorf Building. National Heritage Council. Retrieved March 20, 2020.