Seeis

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1901 built railway bridge in Seeis (2018)

Seeis is a settlement in the Khomas region in central Namibia . It belongs to the constituency of Windhoek-Land and is named after the Seeis - Rivier of the same name .

location

The place, about 55 kilometers east of Windhoek, lies at the intersection of the national road B6 , the railway line Windhoek-Gobabis and the Seeis river. Not far away is also the Hosea Kutako International Airport .

history

Seeis was founded in the 1880s. Manasse! Noreseb, the captain of the Kaiǁkhaun, settled here with his clan in April 1889 after fleeing from Hendrik Witbooi's troops . At that time Seeis was under the control of Maharero , the chief of the Herero .
The imperial post office was built in 1897. In 1904 the place was the scene of the fighting between the imperial protection forces against the Herero under their leader Samuel Maharero and allied Nama . On January 22, 1904, German troops, under the command of Lieutenant von Niewitecki, captured the Seeis station in addition to the besieged Hohewarte and Hatsamas military stations. However, the troops were defeated in the Battle of Seeis on February 15 . A war cemetery has been preserved from this period.

The widespread adventure novel Die Farmer vom Seeis-Rivier by Bernhard Voigt, published in 1936, tells the story of how the local farmers built their livelihoods. It is the final volume of the trilogy The South African Leather Stocking , which the literary scholar Thomas Keil called "undoubtedly the most monumental work of Southwestern fiction"; Keil attests to the author “predominantly colonial revisionist ideas”, but at the same time distinguishes them from the völkisch, Nazi-affine tendency of the people without space ( Hans Grimm ). According to the historian Birthe Kundrus, the book conveys an image of Namibia as a “social and mental healing cure and broadening of horizons”, as many other people interested in colonialism understood it. After the Second World War, the novel was included in the list of literature to be segregated in the Soviet occupation zone in 1946 .

Today the name Seeis is best known for the stud that breeds warm-blooded animals .

gallery

  • Bridge over the Seeis built by the British in 1901 (2012)

  • War cemetery of the German Schutztruppe in Seeis (2012)

  • Information board at the war cemetery in Seeis (2010)

  • War graves of the German Schutztruppe in Seeis (2010)

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Dierks: History of Namibia 1889
  2. ^ Klaus Dierks: History of Namibia 1904
  3. ↑ Thomas Keil: Postcolonial German Literature in Namibia (1920-2000). Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 2003, p. 250 f. (PDF) .
  4. ↑ Bernhard Voigt: The farmers from the Seeis-Rivier. Ludwig Voggenreiter, Potsdam 1936, excerpt from the Bertelsmann edition, Gütersloh 1941. See also Birthe Kundrus: Modern Imperialists. The empire in the mirror of its colonies. Böhlau, Cologne, Weimar, Vienna 2003, p. 72 ; German Administration for National Education : List of literature to be discarded: Letter V , 1946.

Coordinates: 22 ° 27 ′  S , 17 ° 35 ′  E