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Village
Malta height
Coat of arms of Namibia.svg
Details 		Coat of arms Maltahoehe (Namibia) .PNG
Details
motto Viribus Unitis (With united forces)
Basic data
Population
Area
Population Density 		6000 ( 2010 estimate )
State
Region
Constituency 		Namibia
Hardap
Daweb
Establishment date 1899
License plate
phone code 		MA
63
Website
Map of Maltahöhe in Namibia
Political data

Mayor :

Chief Executive Officer : {{{CEO}}}

Last election: 2015

Next election: 2020

City administration address:
Geographical data

Geographic coordinates : 24 ° 50′39 "S, 16 ° 58′46" E

Height : 1000 m

German Evangelical Lutheran Church in Maltahöhe (2018)

Maltahoehe is a village in the region Hardap in Namibia .

The place is about 110 kilometers west of Mariental on the main road C19 and has about 2100 inhabitants. Its name comes from the district captain Henning von Burgsdorff , who ran a police station of the German colonial administration here in 1895 and named the place after his wife Malta. The village was officially founded in 1899.

economy

The town is the center of the Karakul breed , which is important for Namibia, and also serves to supply the surrounding farms. The bar in the Maltahöhe Hotel is a popular meeting point in town for farmers and tourists who mostly just pass through. The hotel was founded in 1907, making it the oldest country hotel in Namibia. Duwisib Castle is not far from the village .

Local politics

The following official final result was determined in the 2015 local elections .

Political party be right Share of votes Seats
SWAPO 511 69.5% 4th
APP 109 14.8% 1
DPN 051 06.9% 0
DTA 032 04.4% 0
RDP 032 04.4% 0
All in all 735 100% 5

Educational institutions

  • Daweb Junior Secondary School
  • Nabasib Primary School

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CATHERINE SASMAN on December 22, 2011: Maltahöhe in face-change exercise ( Memento from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) in namibian.com.na
  2. ↑ Maltahöhe on a map from the time of German South West Africa
  3. ↑ MALTAHÖHE - WHERE THE TAR ROAD ENDS. Travel News Namibia. Retrieved March 19, 2019.
  4. ↑ Official election result of the regional and local elections 2015, ECN, December 4, 2015 ( Memento of the original of December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 150 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ecn.na

Coordinates: 24 ° 51 ′  S , 16 ° 59 ′  E