
These migrants became wealthy due to diamond mining and built the town in the German architectural style.
With such wealth, they began to build hospital, ballroom, power station, school, skittle-alley, theatre and sport-hall, casino, ice factory and the first x-ray-station in the southern hemisphere, as well as the first tram in Africa.
Know about a ghost town in Africa abandoned since 50 years
New Delhi: Kolmanskop in Namibia was founded in 1908 when a railway worker, Zacharias Lewala discovered a diamond in this place and showed it to his supervisor, who then got the gem tested and approved.After
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