2019/09/16, 09:16 PM #1
Een van ons wenslysie was om een aand op Putsonderwater te slaap. Alleen. Ons het oppad na die blomme hier besoek afgelê en hier oornag.
2019/09/16, 09:18 PM #2
2019/09/16, 09:20 PM #3
Gekamp langs die ou stasiegebou. Niemand in sig nie buiten die dassies voëls en steenbokkie
2019/09/16, 09:21 PM #4
2019/09/17, 08:42 AM #5
Net vir interessantheid, Putsonderwater se naam is nie put-sonder-water nie. Die ou mense het nie van 'n put gepraat nie, maar van 'n puts, dus is die betekenis eintlik puts-onder-water.
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2019/09/17, 09:26 AM #6
Interessant... dat 'n "s" nou die betekenis so kan verander
2019/09/17, 10:44 AM #7
Eish. Baie mooi wereld daai.
My vrou se ouers se plaas was net af in die pad, La Cocks Hoop.
Verlang altyd terug na daai mooi rooi sand
2019/09/18, 11:51 AM #8
Hier is dit ongelooflik stil. WOnderlik. Die beste medisyne om weg te breek van die stad.
Hier was ek en Sarel die enigste inwoners vir 1 dag.
2019/09/18, 11:52 AM #9
2019/09/18, 11:54 AM #10
Die monument wat gebou is daar
2019/09/18, 11:55 AM #11
Is dit dalk die plek waar die put was? Vandag n windpomp op
2019/09/18, 11:56 AM #12
Naambord by die stasie
2019/09/18, 01:32 PM #13
2019/09/18, 01:38 PM #14
Strangely enough, this place came up in a video I was watching by ASPW so I did a bit of Googling and a very interesting history emerged regarding how it got its name (a couple of stories on how it got its name but all interesting) but I couldnt find anything on why it was abandoned.
Can anyone tell me why the people decided to leave, lack of water?
2019/09/18, 01:54 PM #15
Ek weet nie waar jy aan jou inligting kom nie; dis hoogs onwaarskynlik. Die oorspronklike storie is dat die bruinmense wat daar gewoon het die witmense wou ontmoedig om daar te vestig. Wanneer reisigers verbygekom het, het hulle soms gevra of daar 'n put is. Die antwoord was gewoonlik "ja meneer, maar dis 'n put sonder water...". Dieselfde met Riviersonderend; wat begin het as 'n grappie word toe aanvaar as feit deur sekeres. Estee, I think the last station master there left in 1989 because the the importance of the railway line had waned. It is situated on the once-bustling De Aar - Suidwes-Afrika trajectory that lost its importance as independence in Namibia was imminent.
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2019/09/18, 01:58 PM #16
Van Putsonder is daar n baie mooi grond pad deur die berge Groblershoop toe.
2019/09/18, 02:01 PM #17
Dankie Elize, sal definitief daar om gaan as ons weer in die area is
2019/09/18, 02:02 PM #18
Thanks Jens, makes sense as a lot of the buildings appear to be old SAR houses etc.
One of the stories that cam up in my search was that some Voortrekkers stopped on a pan and it rained. The water level rose to submerge the tar buckets (used for lubricating the wheels) suspended under the wagons. These were apparently called Putz or Puts and that the name was actually Puts Onder Water or Puts underwater
Interesting, whatever the reason for its name.
2019/09/18, 02:31 PM #19
From what I understand from farmers in the area, there were a lot of passenger trains that were serviced by the station when they went through Putsonderwater (starting from steam locomotive days). Also the feldspar and rose quartz from quarries nearby was loaded at the station. All that activity died down, but the article below explains it better.
Extract... "First recurring droughts brought the cattle trade to an end and then the passenger trains stopped running. Slowly the police station and post office followed the hotel and general dealership, closing down as people left the village—never to return. The station, the heart of the village, stopped beating around the turn of the century when the few passing freight trains no longer had any need to stop. But the primary school kept going for quite a while, mainly owing to the efforts of Ena Hough (now 69), who worked there from 1994 to 2004. “Before, the textbooks, the drinking water, everything, came by train,” she says. “Later on trucks replaced them.”
The remaining inhabitants did piece work, hunting jackal or working on the farms, while their children went to school. “We had big fêtes at the school with neighbouring farms donating a sheep or two. We even created a soccer field and netball court; I chalked the lines myself, my husband welded the posts.” A mobile clinic and mobile library made their way to Putsonderwater, a feeding scheme was introduced. Yet fewer people saw any reason to stay on."
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2019/09/18, 07:27 PM #20
Originally Posted by Ntando
Baie interessant. Wonder watter gebou was gebruik as skool? Die een was duidelik 'n winkel en die ander 'n tipe hotel/losies huis en dan net huisies Sou die graag wou weet voor ons daar was dan kon ek meer gekyk het.