The desert moved into town - 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - African Wednesday week #94
My entry to the @czechglobalhosts's 7 World’s Continents Photo Challenge - African Wednesday week #94
The photo was taken in Kolmanskop - the German ghosttown, abandoned and almost swallowed by the Namibian desert. In 1908 a diamond mining settelement was founded here, when a German found diamonds in the desert. At that time Namibia was a German colony named German South-West Africa. Kolmanskop became rich very fast because diamonds were found in large numbers. It is said, that you could just sit on the sand and pick diamonds in the moonlight! The hospital was the first in Africa to have an X-ray machine. Not only used for patients, but to check if workers had swallowed diamonds. New and larger diamond areas were found further south. The miners and their families left Kolmanskop and many of their things behind. There are stil cans with food on shelves in one of the houses... When the people left, the desert moved in. The whole place has a ghostly atmosphere, something you really feel if you come early in the morning when nobody else is here...
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