Woermann House, National monument in Swakopmund, Namibia.

Woermann House is a complex built in 1894 to Friedrich Höft's plans in a historicist half-timbered style for Hamburg merchant Adolph Woermann and his Damara and Namaqua Trading Company. It consists of a main house, an inner courtyard originally laid out as a lawn, and the so-called Damara Tower, which served as a lookout for incoming ships, a water tower and a flagpole. Office rooms were added in 1903 and 1904.

Woermann House was built in 1894 to plans by architect Friedrich Höft in a historicist half-timbered style for the Hamburg merchant and shipowner Adolph Woermann and his Deutsch-Südwestafrikanische Damara und Namaqua Handelsgesellschaft mbH, renamed Woermann, Brock & Co in 1909. Further office rooms were added in 1903 and 1904. In 1921 the South African administration took over the building and ran it as a youth hostel from 1924 to 1972. Declared a national monument on 10 December 1971, it reopened to the public on 22 October 1976 after restoration.

Two German sayings are painted over the corners of the stairwell ceiling, reached from the courtyard: "JEDER LASSE HIER ZWIETRACHT VOR DER TÜR" and "IN DIESEN MAUERN MÖG EINTRACHT DAUERN", calling for unity and the setting aside of discord. The courtyard was originally a lawn. Today the building holds a library, a souvenir shop and a tourist information office.

The complex is entered from the courtyard side, where a stairwell leads up under the roof cornice; two inscriptions face each other across the corner there. Today the building houses a library, a souvenir shop and a tourist information office, so visitors can combine orientation with a look at the restored interior.

The Damara Tower served three purposes: lookout for incoming ships, water tower and flagpole. Two inscriptions face each other above the stairwell in the inner courtyard: "JEDER LASSE HIER ZWIETRACHT VOR DER TÜR" and "IN DIESEN MAUERN MÖG EINTRACHT DAUERN".