Schwerinsburg
Sign in to saveSchwerinsburg ('Schwerin's castle') is the biggest of three castles in Windhoek, Namibia. Today it is the private residence of the Italian ambassador in Namibia.
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- Instance of
- hilltop castle
- Country
- Namibia
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- inception
- 1890-01-01
- Commons category
- Schwerinsburg (Windhoek)
- commissioned by
- Wilhelm Sander
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Schwerinsburg ('Schwerin's castle') is the biggest of three castles in Windhoek, Namibia. Today it is the private residence of the Italian ambassador in Namibia.
==History== 250px|thumb|left|Sperlingslust castle at the beginning of the 20th century During the time of the construction of Alte Feste in 1890, the tower of Schwerinsburg was built by Curt von François, commissioner of German South-West Africa. In 1904, Schutztruppe (the German colonial forces) sold it to architect Wilhelm Sander who converted it into a beer garden and named it Sperlingslust (lit. 'Sparrows' delight').
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schwerinsburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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