Seeis

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Seeis ([ˈseːaɪs], ) is a small settlement in the Khomas Region of central Namibia. It is situated on the B6 national road 11 km east of Hosea Kutako International Airport on the turnoff of the dirt road D1458. The Seeis Rivier, an ephemeral river, cuts the settlement. Seeis is a railway stop on the Windhoek - Gobabis railway line.

The settlement belongs to the Windhoek Rural electoral constituency and features a school and a police station. The Seeis stud warmblood horse stud farm is located nearby. It has produced a number of successful sport horses and stallions.{{cite web |title=History |publisher=Namibian Warmblood Horse Society |url=http://www.namibian-warmblood-horses.com/history.html |accessdate=23 July 2010}}

History

Seeis was a populated outpost at least since German colonisation in the 1880s. Manasse ǃNoreseb, leader of the Kaiǁkhaun, settled here with his clan in 1889 while fleeing from the approaching troops of Hendrik Witbooi, his archenemy. At that time, Seeis was under the control of Maharero, chief of the Herero people.{{cite news |title = Kaptein Manasse !Noreseb: The political strategist and gallant freedom fighter against German colonialism |url = http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=41390 |last = Shiremo |first = Shampapi |date = 28 October 2011 |newspaper = New Era |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20111029174415/http://www.newera.com.na/article.php?articleid=41390 |archivedate = 29 October 2011 |url-status = usurped |url = http://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/53.htm |last = Dierks |first = Klaus |authorlink = Klaus Dierks |title = Chronology of Namibian History, 1897 |accessdate = 23 July 2010 |url-status = dead |archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20160304043603/http://www.klausdierks.com/Chronology/53.htm |archivedate = 4 March 2016 |url=http://www.klausdierks.com/Strassen/index.html |last=Dierks |first=Klaus |authorlink=Klaus Dierks |title=Pfade und Autobahnen |trans-title=Paths and Motorways |language=German |accessdate=23 July 2010}}

In the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/08, Seeis was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany's Schutztruppe and Herero troops under the leadership of Samuel Maharero. In the Skirmish at Seeis Germans under Lieutenant von Niewitecki relieved the military stations at Seeis, Hohewarte and Hatsamas from Herero occupation on 21 January 1904. On 15 February 1904, fortunes changed and the Herero defeated a German troop under the command of von Fischel. This event is known as the Battle of Seeis.{{cite web |url=http://www.klausdierks.com/Biographies/Biographies_M.htm |last=Dierks |first=Klaus |authorlink=Klaus Dierks |title=Biographies of Namibian Personalities |accessdate=23 July 2010}} Seeis cemetery has a separate section of German war graves from that period, refurbished and maintained by the Farmers' Association of Seeis.

In the media

An adventure novel by Bernhard Voigt: Die Farmer vom Seeis-Rivier (The farmers of Seeis Rivier) was published in the late 1930s. This book inspired by national socialist ideas was banned in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany after World War II by the military administration.{{cite web |title=Deutsche Verwaltung für Volksbildung in der sowjetischen Besatzungszone, Liste der auszusondernden Literatur - V |trans-title=German administration for public education in the Soviet occupation zone, List of publications to be removed, Letter V |language=German |url=http://www.polunbi.de/bibliothek/1946-nslit-v.html |year=1946 |accessdate=23 July 2010}} For details, see Olaf Simons: Zensur von: Voigt, Bernhard, Der Farmer Seeis-Rivier. Polunbi.de, 2004.

Gallery

File:Eisenbahnbrücke Seeis (2018).jpg|Eisenbahnbrücke Seeis (2018) File:Eisenbahnbrücke über den Seeis.jpg|Railway bridge over the Seeis River

References

References

  2. Dammann, Ernst. (1987). "Was Herero erzählten und sangen. Texte, Übersetzung, Kommentar". Dietrich Reimer.
  3. [[:File:Info Seeis war cemetery.jpg. Information plaque on the entrance of the Seeis war cemetery]], picture taken on 18 July 2010

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