Farm Spitzkoppies of the Deutsche Colonialgesellschaft für Südwest Afrika, with five rooms, store rooms and stables

This was a 120 000 ha farm, established in 1896.

In 1899 the farm held 120 horses, 1,500 cattle and 4,000 sheep and goats and was managed by a young German settler Carl Schlettwein.

When the Colonialgesellschaft was disbanded, part of the property was awarded to Jooste. Several generations of Jooste's had farmed there until 1964, when under the "Odendaal Plan" farms in the area were expropriated and awarded to the indigenous Damara people.

Only in the early 1970s a number of Damara families were relocated to the area. Spitzkoppe village started growing steadily.
Carl Schlettwein was born in the Mecklenburg region in Germany in 1866. He married in 1898, left the enterprise and started his own new farm in the remote area between Sesfontein and Khowarib, at Warmquelle, and later again at Otjitambi in the Kamanjab - Outjo area.

Schlettwein became member of the first Landesrat für Südwestafrika (established in 1910).

He published a few books on farming practices in South West Africa.

During a trip to Europe before the 1st World War, he had an audience with the German Emperor, Kaiser Wilhelm II.
In a later phase of his life, he had become good friends with Jan Chr. Smuts, prime minister of South Africa.
Several Schlettwein descendants still live in Namibia.

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