Evening at Kolmanskop
Kolmanskop is an old deserted mining town 12 kilometres inland from Luderitz in southern Namibia.
It's a strange and eerie place. It was abandoned 60 years ago and the shifting sands have taken over many of the buildings.
A wonderful place to wander around with your camera.
"In 1908 the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while working in this area and showed it to his supervisor, the German railway inspector August Stauch. Realizing the area was rich in diamonds, German miners began settlement, and soon after the German government declared a large area as a 'Sperrgebiet', starting to exploit the diamond field.
Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa. It had a railway link to Lüderitz."
Evening at Kolmanskop
Kolmanskop is an old deserted mining town 12 kilometres inland from Luderitz in southern Namibia.
It's a strange and eerie place. It was abandoned 60 years ago and the shifting sands have taken over many of the buildings.
A wonderful place to wander around with your camera.
"In 1908 the worker Zacharias Lewala found a diamond while working in this area and showed it to his supervisor, the German railway inspector August Stauch. Realizing the area was rich in diamonds, German miners began settlement, and soon after the German government declared a large area as a 'Sperrgebiet', starting to exploit the diamond field.
Driven by the enormous wealth of the first diamond miners, the residents built the village in the architectural style of a German town, with amenities and institutions including a hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa. It had a railway link to Lüderitz."