Okahandja

Okahandja is a town of 24,a hundred inhabitants in Otjozondjupa Region, relevant Namibia, and the district capital of the Okahandja electoral constituency. It is known as the Garden Town of Namibia. It is positioned 70 km north of Windhoek on the B1 street. It turned into founded around 1800, by two neighborhood businesses, the Herero and the Nama. Okahandja method the region wherein two rivers flow into every other to form one wide one in Otjiherero.

A German pastor, Heinrich Schmelen, became the primary European to go to the city in 1827. In 1844, two missionaries had been permanently assigned to the metropolis, Heinrich Kleinschmidt and Hugo Hahn. A church dates from this era. A army submit became installed at the initiative of Theodor Leutwein in 1894, and it is this date this is formally diagnosed because the metropolis's founding. A range of critical historical Namibian humans are buried in Okahandja, among them Maharero, Jan Jonker Afrikaner, Hosea Kutako and Clemens Kapuuo.