The lock Duwisib belongs - its optics, situation and developing history post surely to the skurrilsten realm-German colonial buildings in Namibia.

72 kilometers southwest from Malta height become suddenly red walls, military towers and Zinnen of one apparently from the European Middle Ages coming fortress visibly. Like a Fata Morgana appears lock Duwisib before one in the desert.

Its emergence owes this building to the dream of the Saxonian artillery officer Hansheinrich of wolf: he had come during the Hererokriegs as a colonial force officer to southwest Africa and beachsichtigte, after he had married 1907 during one homeland vacation a wealthy American to establish itself in the long term in German southwest Africa in order a horse stud to base here. It acquired for this the farm Duwisib and let on its 1908 by the castle architect William Sander (the designer of the heavy in, Heinitz and Sanderburg in Windhuk), well-known in the colony, the lock after historical model build. From wolf a quite successful breed with full blood horses operated in the subsequent years. During a ship journey the message of the outbreak of the First World War reached 1914 to Europe from wolf; at its internment in South America the escape succeeded to it to Germany, where it announced itself to the war service and 1916 fell in France. Its wife did not return again to southwest Africa; Lock and horse breeding purged (and possibly played with the history of the desert horses a crucial role).

The lock was reconditioned in recent time completely and style-faithfully and is today the public accessible a museum. On the area of the farm a national camping site with very simple comfort is furnished. In addition there are Bungalows with appropriate guest rooms there.

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