Luhonono

Luhonono ( until August 8, 2013 Schuckmannsburg ) is a settlement with about 800 inhabitants in the constituency Kabbe, the extreme east of the Zambezi Administrative Region (formerly Caprivi ) in Namibia. The place is known as the former German South West African - residence of the region.

Luhonono is located about one kilometer south of the Zambezi River and about 65 kilometers east of Katima Mulilo, now the administrative center of the region.

History

Luhonono was founded on February 7, 1909 by Captain Kurt Streit Wolf as " Imperial Residentur in the Caprivi Strip " under the name Schuckmannsburg. It was named after the then Governor of German South West Africa, Bruno of Schuckmann. The purpose of the foundation was to take the Caprivi Strip, already since 1890 belonged formally to German South-West, for the colonial administration in visible possession. The Imperial Resident Streitwolf, the three German officers and some askaris were as auxiliary policemen to the side, erected buildings, mapped the area and consolidated management. 1911 took over Victor von Frankenberg and Proschlitz, now as a civilian chief of the district, the Residentur. In 1914 he handed Schuckmannsburg without a fight approaching a department of the British South African Police.

As the administration of the Caprivi strip was moved to Katima Mulilo on 28 January 1935 many buildings were demolished in Schuckmannsburg to reuse the bricks in Katima Mulilo.

The village is now mainly of wooden huts and a few solid buildings, including a hospital and a school. The only intact architectural relic from German colonial times is a brick house with a floor area of about twelve square meters.