The entire area is today a campus of the University of Namibia for agricultural education and experimental farming.
During the Herero and Nama War 1904–1907, livestock confiscated by the Imperial German troops was held here, and the first large dam in the territory was built.
[1] An experimental farm was established at Neudamm in 1907, a post office was opened in the same year[2] and was operational until World War I.
The results were published in Landwirtschaft!, a supplement to the official gazette for German South West Africa.
[4] In 1938 a hostel and a classrom was built, and Gammams Agricultural School was relocated from Windoek to Neudamm.