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52: 340:. He married on February 10, 1864, and shortly after resumed the ministry at the station. He had to flee for his life from Nama attacks on the station no less than seven times, only to resettle it again. When the residents of the station finally fled in 1866, Brincker returned to Otjimbingwe, but a few months later he went back to Gross Barmen because the Eastern Herero, or Mbandjeru, had unexpectedly settled there. He had some success evangelizing to them, but was stymied when they left to join chief 121: 59: 380:(NWR), the company responsible for all national parks and official recreational areas in Namibia. Besides the thermal bath it featured a petrol station, a restaurant, and overnight accommodation until 2010 but became the biggest loss maker of NWR. It is now in a period of reconstruction and expansion and was scheduled to be reopened in 2013. 344:
in Okahandja. Returning to Otjimbingwe once more, Brincker would be back in Gross Barmen in 1869, when the war was almost over. He set about immediately rebuilding the station, this time with a school and church. In the years following the so-called Peace of Okahandja (September 13, 1870), which the
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in 1904, but was destroyed by Herero insurgents. The settlement also had a police station at that time, and a military fort which was demolished during the uprising. The village was destroyed by burning by German colonial troops under the command of
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was being developed under the supervision, and at the initiative, of Jonker Afrikaner. Hahn and Kleinschmidt initiated the creation of a path from Windhoek to Barmen via Okahandja, and in 1850 this road, later known as
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in November 1852. Since the Wesleyan missionaries had abandoned Windhoek to Jonker's raids, Hahn was hired to take their place but failed to secure it and arrived back in
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Hahn taught Western farming techniques and tried to settle the Herero in Otjikango, but the Herero left the area to escape the recurrent attacks of Jonker Afrikaner's
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missionaries fostered for a decade, boasted 251 residents and 130 children attending the school. After a visit back to Germany in February 1880, Brincker returned to
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comes from a depth of 2,500 m. It exits the ground at 65 °C and is cooled down to around 40 °C for the thermal bath.
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where the headquarters of the Rhenish Missionary Society were located. The ruins of the missionary house are still visible.
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in August 1850. Hahn was ordered to report back to Germany, but he was reassigned to
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The old South West Africa. South West Africa's history until Maharero's death 1890
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on September 13, 1853. In early 1856, he returned, but this time he settled in
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Das alte Südwestafrika. Südwestafrikas Geschichte bis zum Tode Mahareros 1890
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The recreational centre at Gross Barmen was built in 1977. The water of the
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The Autobiography of Eugen Mansfeld: A Settler's Life in Colonial Namibia
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The next Rhenish Missionary to settle in Gross Barmen was the Rev.
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missionaries arrived in Windhoek in 1844 at the invitation of
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The mission station was operational until the start of
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makes it a popular weekend destination for locals.
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Otjiherero
Gross Barmen is located in Namibia
22°6′0″S 16°45′0″E / 22.10000°S 16.75000°E / -22.10000; 16.75000
Namibia
Region
Otjozondjupa Region
Constituency
Okahandja Constituency
Time zone
UTC+1
South African Standard Time
German
spa
Swakop River
Namibia
Windhoek
Okahandja
Otjozondjupa Region
Windhoek
Otjiherero
Herero people
Wesleyan
Jonker Afrikaner
Rhenish missionaries
Carl Hugo Hahn
Franz Heinrich Kleinschmidt
Wuppertal
Germany
South West Africa
Alter Baiweg

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