Declaration of National Monument The Germany Church Monument

The Minister of Home Affairs and Cultural Heritage has declared the German church building and the Samutumbu site at Gutu Mission a National Monument. The site sits on Gutu Mission Farm in Gutu District, Masvingo Province, on map sheet 1931 C1 of the Surveyor-General's 1:50 000 series.

The protected area is 2,9542 hectares, fixed by a surveyed polygon running through twelve points from grid reference UP1247 2776 and back to the start. Anyone needing the exact boundary — a neighbouring landholder, a surveyor, or the mission itself — should work from the beacon descriptions in the gazette rather than from any map sketch.

Declaration brings the site under the National Museums and Monuments Act, so alteration, excavation, building or removal of material at the site becomes a matter for National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe. The notice does not restate those controls and sets no fees, penalties or commencement date.

A caution on the boundary description: the written distances and the bracketed figures disagree in several places — "seventy-six comma three nine metres (66,39m)", "fifty-three comma five six metres (43,56m)" and "fifty-five comma three five metres (45,35m)". The polygon is also introduced as figure N,P,Q…N but described as starting at point A. These look like errors in the printed instrument, and the boundary should be confirmed against the deposited survey diagram before anyone relies on it.