Hochland Park

Region

Highland Park ( Highland Park also ) is a district of the Namibian capital Windhoek.

Highland Park is adjacent to the neighborhoods of Windhoek Central Windhoek - West and in the West, Dorado Park in the north, pigeons and Glen Acacia in the east and Pioneer Park in the south. Due to its relatively central location of this district is a popular residential area of Windhoek's upper middle class. Although originally conceived as an area exclusively for whites it is one of the best mixed neighborhoods today.

Highland Park is named after the Khomas Hochland.

History and political significance

Highland Park was in the late 1960s on the territory of the former " Old Location", one of the former ghetto Windhoek, built after the black inhabitants of this district, partly by force, in the suburb of Katutura were resettled. The highlight of the assaults took place on 10 December 1959, when the police shot and killed eleven people and injured another 44. This day went as the "revolution in the Old Location " ( engl. Old location uprising ) in the history of Namibia a. He is also the main reason that December 10, the day of human rights in Namibia 's National Day.

In 1968, the Old Location was officially closed and whites settled there. For blacks who took part against apartheid in the resistance struggle and have come to political influence and prosperity to the independence of Namibia in 1990, it is in part a political statement, to relocate the residents of this district, from which their ancestors were driven out by the whites. Many ministers and secretaries of state and the Inspector General of Police now live in Highland Park.

Street names

The street names in Highland Park are thematically closely limited as in most parts of the city of Windhoek; as also in the newer parts of the city adjacent Acacia and pigeons Glen all the streets are named after birds. However, the naming varies according to the in the development of the residential area mainly spoken by the white population by apartheid preferred languages ​​Afrikaans (eg Hamerkopweg, Kestrell Straat ), English ( Goshawk Street, Kingfisher Road) and German ( Raven Road, Falkenweg ).