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* Heimat building, ca. 1925: A double-storey hostel in the Neo Cape Dutch style was designed by Gerard Moerdijk was the first permanent building to be erected on the university campus.

It was decided that it would be called ‘ Ons Huis ’ ( Our Home ).

When the students occupied it, however, it was called the " Klimop " ( Creeper ).

The students promptly dubbed it " Heimat " – and thus it remained, even after the building was re-allocated for academic purposes in 1980.

It was proclaimed in 1984.

This building on the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University houses the University's Department of Culture.

It was declared in 1984 ( item 27194 in SAHRA register ).