Diamond restricted area marks the port load-cuts enclosing region at the namibischen west coast of Africa, which extends from the Oranje to the south border of the Namib Naukluft national park.

Here 1908 with the building of railways coincidentally diamonds were found. Were based some German diamond companies, which supplied the find area parzellierten and an arranged diamond dismantling. In this time such skurrilen settlements developed such as Kolmanskuppe, which are to be only admired today as spirit city. one considered the diamond camps exhausted and sold to 1920 her by Ernst Oppenheimer, the founder of the Consolidated dia. moon Mines OF South west Africa. This society, which was taken over later of De Beers Group, perfected the diamond production and expanded it the far over original find area northward and particularly to the south. As the protection from a unlizenzierten, uncontrolled diamond production the entire area was explained as the restricted area. Only the city cut and to it lead road for the general traffic release.

The diamond promotion was increasingly industrialized and perfected by employment by major items of equipment, which led to a wide change, in addition, destruction of the desert landscape. However unique biotopes kept at the same time from large scientific importance in the restricted area.

After the diamond promotion shifted ever more strongly into the of the Oranje, entitled hope exists that the diamond restricted area is in the near future made smaller or waived even completely. A first step is already made: The De-Beers-group belonging mine city Oranjemund already into local autonomy to dismiss and for the public one opened.

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