Rhenish mission house
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National monument in Namibia 
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| Monument type | National monument : building | ||
| location | Omaruru | ||
| Geographic coordinates : | 21 ° 25 '12.9 " S , 15 ° 57' 14.2" E | ||
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| Emergence | 1868; Expanded in 1870 | ||
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Recognized by the National Heritage Council |
1985 | ||
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| Sponsorship | urban | ||
| Website | NHC Namibia | ||
The Rhenish Mission House ( English Rhenish Mission House ) is a historic administrative and residential buildings in the Namibian town of Omaruru . It is the oldest building in the city.
It has been a National Monument of Namibia since 1985 .
description
The house consists of a hallway, a kitchen and seven other rooms. It is covered with a vaulted roof made of reed and clay, which has been covered with corrugated iron since 1892. The first parts of the house were built in 1868 by Daniël Cloete . Four years later, the missionary Gottlieb Viehe of the Rhenish Mission Society built a house made of unfired clay stones right next to it. Here he translated the New Testament , the liturgy and other Christian scriptures into Otjiherero in 1874 . It is the first written record in this language. The mission house was also used for political meetings and as a school. From 1881 it also served as a hospital. Further extensions and modifications took place in the course of the 1880s. In 1934 the Cloete house collapsed after heavy rainfall.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c 097/1985 Old Rhenish Mission House. National Heritage Council. Retrieved March 20, 2020.