Warmbad (Namibia)

Village Warm bath ǀAixa-aibes ( khi ) Nisbett's Bath (historical)
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Basic data
Population Area Population Density	1,200 ( 2011 estimate ) 12 km² 100 inhabitants / km²
State Region Constituency	Namibia ǁKaras Karasburg-Ost
Establishment date	1760
License plate phone code	KA 63
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Warmbad (formerly Khoekhoegowab ǀAixa-aibes and historically Nisbett's Bath ) is a village at the well-known source of the Hom Rivier river in the ǁKaras region in the extreme southeast of Namibia , not far from the border with South Africa . The place has, among other things, a mission church built in 1810 and internationally known thermal springs . Warmbad is located around 720 meters above sea level in the dry and temperate climate of the Namaland highlands, between the climate of the southern Namib and the steppe climate to the east .

history

Barracks in Warmbad around 1914

Postage stamp from the Reichspost for German South West Africa postmarked Warmbad 1898

Mentioned for the first time in 1760, Warmbad has been a meeting place for merchants, big game hunters and missionaries who came from the southern Cape Colony since the 18th century . The place was also the center of the long-established Namibian Nama as well as a refuge for the uprooted Nama from the Cape Province , who were escaping from European colonialism . Between 1805 and 1810 Christian and Abraham Albrecht founded a mission station on behalf of the London Mission Society , which was destroyed during the Orlam uprising in 1811 and rebuilt in 1834 by Edward Cook of the Wesleyan Mission Society . The Rheinische Missionsgesellschaft took over the mission in 1867. The missionary work was interrupted several times, including in 1903 by the Bondelswart uprising against German colonial rule.

Today Warmbad is a popular destination for Namibia tourists and (like Grünau ) a lively community, especially for Afrikaans and Nama.

Worth seeing

• Edward Cook memorial stone ^*
• Fortress gates in Warmbad ^*

^* National monuments

Web links

Commons : Warmbad, Namibia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marc Fröhling: Warmbad: (Still) Off the beaten track - Allgemeine Zeitung on November 1, 2011
2. ↑ 079/1978 Edward Cook's Commemorative Stone. National Heritage Council. ( Memento of the original from June 29, 2018 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. Retrieved November 13, 2017. 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Klaus Dierks: The restoration of the old mission church in Warmbad , Namibia library by Klaus Dierks, accessed July 17, 2013
4. ^ Warmbad in: Deutsches Kolonial-Lexikon, Heinrich Schnee (Ed.), Leipzig: Quelle & Meyer 1920, Volume III, p. 677 (online)

Coordinates: 28 ° 27 ′  S , 18 ° 44 ′  E