A complete list of cemeteries in

Windhoek Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 202 ...

, the capital of

Namibia Namibia (, ), officially the Republic of Namibia, is a country in Southern Africa. Its western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Zambia and Angola to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and ea ...

Historic cemeteries

* Leutwein Cemetery (1892–1904), situated between Robert Mugabe Avenue and Leutwein Street in Central Windhoek. Sometimes regarded as two different cemeteries with one piece left and one piece right of Mugabe Avenue, the burial place is named after

Theodor Leutwein Theodor Gotthilf Leutwein (9 May 1849 – 13 April 1921) was colonial administrator of German Southwest Africa from 1894 to 1904 (as commander of its Schutztruppe, and from 1898, governor). Life and career Born in Strümpfelbrunn in the ...

, colonial administrator of

German South West Africa German South West Africa (german: Deutsch-Südwestafrika) was a colony of the German Empire from 1884 until 1915, though Germany did not officially recognise its loss of this territory until the 1919 Treaty of Versailles. With a total area of ...

from 1894 to 1904. * Gammams Cemetery (1904–) on the western side of Gammams River between today's suburbs of

Hochland Park Hochland Park (also ''Hochlandpark'', seldom ''Highland Park'') is a residential suburb in Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It is named after the German ''Khomas Hochland'', the central-Namibian plateau area in which Windhoek is situated. Hochlan ...

and Pioneers Park. The cemetery started as an informal burial ground for victims of the

Herero Wars The Herero Wars were a series of colonial wars between the German Empire and the Herero people of German South West Africa (present-day Namibia). They took place between 1904 and 1908. Background Pre-colonial South-West Africa The Hereros we ...

. Gammams Cemetery accommodates Namibia's only

crematory A crematorium or crematory is a venue for the cremation of the dead. Modern crematoria contain at least one cremator (also known as a crematory, retort or cremation chamber), a purpose-built furnace. In some countries a crematorium can also b ...

. * Veronica Street Cemetery in the Ludwigsdorf suburb * Katutura Cemetery in Claudius Kandovazu Street,

Katutura Katutura (Otjiherero for ''The place where people do not want to live'') is a township of Windhoek, Khomas Region, Namibia. Katutura was created in 1961 following the forced removal of Windhoek's black population from the Old Location, which a ...

Current cemeteries

* Old Location Cemetery (opened 1927), an extension to the Gammams cemetery on the eastern side of Gammams River. The name stems from Windhoek's former

Old Location The Old Location (or as it was known then the Main Location) was an area segregated for Black residents of Windhoek, the capital of Namibia. It was situated in the area between today's suburbs of Hochland Park and Pioneers Park. History Upon the ...

, a segregated reserve for Windhoek's non-white population. The cemetery itself became racially segregated in 1926. There is an ''Old Location Cemetery Museum'' and a mass grave for people killed in the Old Location Uprisings in December 1959. The mass grave was listed on the National Heritage Register in August 2004. The entire cemetery was provisionally proclaimed a national monument in 1987 but failed to be listed. The provisional proclamation expired 5 years later. * Oponganda Cemetery (May 2001-) on Otjomuise Road in the Grysblock suburb, opposite Gammams Water Works. It is Katutura's largest cemetery, 4,500 adult graves and 6,900 graves of children. * Khomasdal Cemetery (1965-) on the corner of Begonia Street and Roos Street in the suburb of

Khomasdal Khomasdal is a suburb of Namibia's capital of Windhoek in the Khomas Region. Founded as Windhoek's residential area for Coloured people, Khomasdal still is primarily composed of Coloured people. In October 2006, the City of Windhoek announ ...

. no more new graves available at this cemetery; it accommodated 6,750 adult graves and 3,500 graves of children. * Heroes' Acre, situated south of Windhoek, is a burial ground for Namibian National Heroes and Heroines. The burial site consists of 174 tombs, not all of which are occupied.

Future cemeteries

* Rocky Crest Cemetery in the suburb of

Rocky Crest Windhoek (, , ) is the capital and largest city of Namibia. It is located in central Namibia in the Khomas Highland plateau area, at around above sea level, almost exactly at the country's geographical centre. The population of Windhoek in 202 ...

, opened in 2016 * a cemetery in the Goreangab suburb

References

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History of Windhoek Cemeteries