Kolmanskop

Located near the port of Lüderitz in the south of Namibia Kolmanskop is a ghost town on the fridges of the desert that has been empty for over sixty years.

Komanskop was built as a small mining town after diamonds were discovered in the area around 1908 in the guise of a German town, complete with its own hospital, power station and amenities such as skittle alleys and cinemas.

Unfortunately after World War I the world entered the "Great depression" causing the price of diamonds to crash dramatically alot of the diamond mining was moved elswhere and people left for these other mining areas.

It was not until 1956 how ever that the town was fully abandoned and has been empty ever since. Nowadays the houses of the town are knee deep in sand inside because of the forces of the desert.

Image attributed to Harald Süpfle