Windhoek: Our Heritage

In the early 1980's Namibian artist Christine Marais created her much loved impressions of the architectural heritage of Windhoek.
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Title: Windhoek. Our Heritage
Author: Christine Marais
Genre: Architectural history
Publisher: Gamsberg Macmillan
2nd edition. Swakopmund, Namibia (1986/1999)
ISBN 0868482609 / ISBN 0-86848-260-9
Hardcover, 24 x 33 cm, 80 pages, throughout colour impressions, 1 city map, text in English, German, Afrikaans

Description:

Windhoek was founded in 1890 as a German Imperial outpost and grew, quietly and with some stylishness, into a graceful little metropolis of wide and unhurried thoroughfares, a culturally diverse citizenry and an architectural character in which the modern blends with the elegant German colonial style. Many of the older buildings are visually striking, as well as historic: the first white settlers erected a romantic fort named Alte Feste, today part of the State Museum, and a number of other imposing structures that confer a picturesquely European flavour to an otherwise African city. In the early 1980's Namibian artist Christine Marais created her much loved impressions of the architectural heritage of Windhoek, of which, due to a malfunctioning conservation management in Namibia, some have been lost to neglect or demolition.

Illustrations in 'Windhoek: Our Heritage'

The Christuskirche
The Catholic Cathedral
Catholic Mission Church in Pionier's Park
Rhenish Mission Church
Ten-Men House
Girl's Hostel
The Station
The Prison
Conservatorium (Obergericht)
Dernburg House
Old Government Survey Office
The Turnhalle
Old Suporeme Court
St. George's Cathedral
Brewery
Grüner Kranz
Windmill Hill and Willy Sander's drawing office
Orbanschool
The Tintenpalast (The Ink Palace)
The old National Assembly Hall
Country Home in the Volans Street
Officer's House Leutwein Street
Emma Hoogenhout School / Deutsche Schule Windhoek
Swaruk Building
Villa Migliarina in Schanzen Street
Kock & Schmidt
Gathemann House
Elisabeth House
Ludwigslust
St. Paul's Hostel
The August Stauch House
House in Körner Street
Villa Lanwers
Schwerinsburg (Sperlingslust)
Sanderburg
Heynitzburg
The Alte Feste