Warmbad

Warmbad is a agreement located in the Karas Region of southern Namibia. It is situated south of Karasburg on the Homs River, near the border with South Africa, and belongs to the Karasburg electoral constituency. Warmbad become first named in 1760 by scout Jacobus Coetzee, the primary documented European to pass the Oranje River into the South West African territory that today bureaucracy the state of Namibia. At that time it served as stop-over for buyers, adventurers and large sport hunters from the South African Cape Colony. In 1805 two missionaries from the London Missionary Society, Abraham and Christian Albrecht,

initiated the erection of a church and a pastor's house, thereby establishing the first assignment station in South West Africa in 1806. This yr is thought as the foundation of the settlement. These two homes were the first European-style homes on South West African soil. The local Orlam network under the leadership of Jager Afrikaner soon became angry approximately the European affect and destroyed both buildings in 1811.