Deutschland Downunder This website and the information and resources contained here is a culmination of a dream and passion to research and document the cultural vestiges and folkways of the German-Queensland pioneer ways. The research has involved many years of talking and getting to know the people, recording and documenting […]
Deutschland Downunder This website and the information and resources contained here is a culmination of a dream and passion to research and document the cultural vestiges and folkways of the German-Queensland pioneer ways. The research has involved many years of talking and getting to know the people, recording and documenting […]
Old Barn Dances – Lockyer Valley (Recorded in August 1986) A sequence of old Lockyer Valley barn dances played on button accordion by Norm Boughen and Ron Kerle of Minden. Norm and Ron knew literally hundreds of dance and song tunes from the German pioneering communities that have been played […]
This popular old dance tune is a real favourite in the German-derived farming communities in southern Queensland – it could be termed a real classic. The Waltz of Vienna is a stately dance and the tune is lovely and flowing. Here played on button accordion by Mark Schuster with accompanying […]
Uniformen Der Alten Armee. Published by Waldorf-Astoria Zigarettenfabrik, Munchen. A very rare German book (no published date, possibly 1940s?) containing 312 beautiful cigarette cards of old (Imperial and older) Army uniforms of the German provinces. Approx. 80 pp. All 312 cards are present. A must for those interested in early […]
Large Illustrated German Family Bible ‘Illustrierte Heilige Schrift’ The much sought-after German Holy Bible, produced in USA in the 1880s. Philadelphia, USA. 1883. Leather Bound large format, 883 pp. Beautiful hand coloured illustrations. These large leather bound family bibles were the pride and joy, the treasured possessions of many German-Queensland […]
