by Mark Schuster (Brisbane, QLD) ‘Day in day out, nothing but this terrible ancestral castle, the sea and nothing but the sea, and the overwhelming unfulfilled yearning for freedom and our home country.’ (Martin Trojan, 1922) How did a large number of German internees and a small local […]
Settlements
From Deutschland to Dundee: Germans South of the (Queensland) Border
Back in the early 1980s, when attending university at Armidale, I used to travel past the small New England tablelands community of Dundee. A name like that makes you envisage a Scottish landscape and memories of Celtic origins – which is how the region certainly feels. The New England region […]
They Came and They Stayed
‘They Came and They Stayed’: Settlement Patterns of the German-Queensland Communities Unlike South Australia that had a large immigration episode in the mid 1800s from the Silesian province of Germany, the situation in Queensland is more complex in terms of immigration from the provinces of Germany and eventual settlement patterns. […]
In Obum Scrub – Article by Pastor Aub Podlich
THE LUTHERAN -30 May 2005 In Obum Scrub (This is a photo of the Fassifern Scrub-in the 1890’s – obtained by Mark Schuster) How one family is working to preserve and restore a part of God’s creation – Aub Podlich ‘To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.’ (Mary […]
Gott ist Gute
Dances, Crossroads, Hexen and Healers – ‘Gott ist gute, but the divil’s not too bad either’! ‘In a storm, you know why they covered mirrors? Because if you looked in a mirror during a storm quite often you could see the devil, that’s what my grandmother said, so you […]
Sad Death of a German Pastor
SAD DEATH OF A GERMAN PASTOR At Charters Towers. Poisoned by Mercury. Preserving Butterflies. Many persons in the town and suburbs (says the Charters Towers’ “Standard” of the 14th inst.), who had not heard of the sad and sudden end of the reverend Pastor Siegfried Krieg, of the German […]
History of the Apostolic Church of Queensland and H F Niemeyer
A Brief History and Profile of the Apostolic Church of Queensland (An article provided kindly provided from the Apostolic Church of Queensland website) Cathedral of the Apostolic Church, Asfield Rd, Bundaberg, Dedicated for Divine Worship on 26th June, 1958 As the Apostolic Creed denotes, the Apostolic Church of Queensland’s original […]
Keeping on God’s Right Side: Religion and the German-Queenslanders
Keeping on God’s Right Side: Religion and German Queenslanders Even though many of the German immigrants to Australia came from a culture steeped in superstition, formalised religion has played a critical role in the history and cultural identity of the German settlers in Queensland. Unlike the Silesian migration to South Australia […]
An Account of the German Baptist Church History in Queensland
German Baptist Churches in Queensland This historic account of the German Baptist Churches of Queensland is taken from Queensland Baptist Jubilee Record Volume 1855-1905, (Brisbane: W.R. Smith & Co, 1906) edited by William Higlett (who was well acquainted with and supportive of these churches). It gives a good picture […]
