QUEENSLAND'S GERMAN CONNECTIONS - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE

Maps on this page depict the widening extension of the immigrants’ settlement by about 1900. Of note is the westward arc (main map) along the fertile axis of the Lockyer Valley – today Queensland’s ‘salad bowl’ and known for its rich soils and agricultural output. More than 2,400 Germans made new homes here. The sight which greeted the new settlers from atop the escarpment of the Toowoomba Range, as they gazed westwards across the low, rolling ridges and vast plains stretching to the horizon, may only be imagined. Over 700 called Toowoomba home. Deutsche Siedlungen Settlements across Queensland

Baffle Creek

Bundaberg

Hapsburg (Kowbi)

Maryborough

Binjour Plateau

WIDE BAY

BURNETT

Gympie

Teutoburg (Witta)

From early days of the missionaries at Zion Hill, in what is now Brisbane’s northside suburb Nundah, more than 1,800 Germans now lived in Brisbane and Ipswich. Over 400 settled around the fertile estuaries of the Albert and Logan Rivers to the southeast, 1,100 in the Fassifern Valley. More than 900 had arrived, most by sea, and settled in the Maryborough district.

Maleny

DARLING

Bismarck (Maclagan)

Prenzlau Minden (Frenchton>Minden) Marburg

Zahley (Kilbirnie) Bergen (Murra Murra) Bergenside (Neuve) Kleinton

Kirchheim ( Haigslea)

German Station (Nundah)

Tarampa

Lockyer

BRISBANE

Plainland

Toowoomba

IPSWICH

Gramzow (Carbrook) Waterford (Bethania Pocket) Pimpama Island > Woongoolba Stegelitz > Steiglitz Beenleigh

Laidley

Rosewood

Hatton Vale

Hessenburg (Ingoldsby)

Gehrkevale (Mount Mort)

Engelsburg (Kalbar) Fassifern

DOWNS

MAP KEY principal german settlements other german settlements railway lines

MORETON

Warwick

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Stanthorpe Rössler (Applethorpe)