Grasplatz
Grasplatz is a defunct railway station in the south of Namibia on the currently decommissioned Aus–Lüderitz line. It is the place where in 1908 railway worker Zacharias Lewala found the first diamond in German South-West Africa and handed it over to his foreman August Stauch.
- Railway station
- …lies at an elevation of 221 metres (725 feet)
- …is also known as “Haltstelle Grasplatz”
- Description: railway station in Namibia
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kolmanskop.
Kolmanskop
Locality
Kolmanskop is a ghost town in the Namib in southern… Kolmanskop is situated 6 km west of Grasplatz.
Grasplatz
- Category: transport
- Location
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Latitude
-26.72197° or 26° 43′ 19″ south
Longitude
15.2929° or 15° 17′ 34″ east
Open location code
5F5Q77HV+65
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
railway=station
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Russian—“Grasplatz” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Grasplatz”
- French: “gare de Grasplatz”
- French: “Grasplatz”
- Russian: “Грасплац”
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