Deutsche-Afrika Bank Building

Swakopmund


Swakopmund brims with numerous historic examples of traditional German architecture. The handsome neo-classical Deutsche-Afrika Bank Building was opened in 1909 as a branch office of the Deutsche-Afrika Bank. It's now a functioning Bank of Windhoek branch.


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