Brunswick (Victoria)

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Brunswick
Sydney Rd 14 S Brunswick from Hope St.jpg
Sydney Road, Brunswick, looking south, with central Melbourne in the background
State : AustraliaAustralia Australia
State : Flag of Victoria (Australia) .svg Victoria
City : Melbourne
Coordinates : 37 ° 46 ′  S , 144 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 46 ′  S , 144 ° 58 ′  E
Area : 5.0  km²
Residents : 24,473 (2016)
Population density : 4895 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10)
Postal code : 3056
LGA : City of Moreland
Brunswick (Melbourne)
Brunswick
Brunswick

Brunswick is a district of Melbourne , Australia . The district belongs to the administrative region ( LGA ) City of Moreland .

Brunswick, actually the English term for the city of Braunschweig , got its name from Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , the wife of the English King George IV.

geography

Geographical location

The Brunswick district is about four kilometers north of the "Central Business District". The district is bounded to the east by Lygon Street and Holmes Street, to the west by Grantham, Pearson and Shamrock Street.

Brunswick is on a relatively flat plain and the streets are latticed. The main thoroughfare in north-south direction is the "Sydney Road" (part of the Hume Highway ). Most of the business centers are also on Sydney Road.

Surrounding districts

Pascoe Coburg Coburg
Brunswick West Wind rose small.svg Brunswick East
Parkville Princes Hill Fitzroy North

history

Brunswick is in what the Aboriginal people called "Iramoo". The area was inhabited by the Wurundjeri tribe before white people began to settle there in 1830. Several speculators bought the land at an auction in Sydney in the hope of being able to sell it on for a profit. Since the area was very swampy, the resale was very slow; In 1852 there was still much land unsold and in 1859 one of the speculators, James Simpson, left the area. In 1841 Thomas Wilkinson bought land in the area. Since he was a supporter of Caroline von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , he named the area Brunswick .

Gold rush

Around 1850 gold prospectors came to the area as part of the Victorian gold rush , particularly from the populous towns of Fitzroy and Collingwood. Brunswick gave the prospectors the opportunity to replenish their supplies and to trade before they set out for the gold fields at what is now Essendon . The first newspaper in the area was created in 1852 with The Brunswick Record (since 1858: The Brunswick & Pentridge Press ). By 1857 the population grew to 5,000. In the same year the first community assembly and in 1859 the first district court came into being. The current Victorian Town Hall was built in 1876 near the center of Brunswick at the intersection of Dawson Street and Sydney Road.

Since the 1860s, quarries and brick kilns have been built around the place, which quickly became the most important industry in the area. In 1884 the Brunswick Railway Line was opened, connecting Melbourne with Brunswick and Coburg. Before World War I , Brunswick was considered the brick center of Victoria. Today, remains can still be found in the city, even if most of the brick buildings have been replaced by more modern ones.

Modern

In 1908, Brunswick was officially granted city status. By 1910 the population had grown to 30,000. In the 1920s, the textile industry became an important industry in the city. After the Second World War , Brunswick became home to many emigrants from southern Europe. More recently, many people from Turkey and other Islamic countries have settled in Brunswick. In the course of the restructuring processes ( gentrification ) in the 1990s, more and more brick and textile factories closed. Instead, the renovation and new construction of housing estates were funded.

In 2004, Brunswick and neighboring Carlton became known through a war between various criminal gangs . The media took up the topic and described the murders as underworld war ("war of the underworld"); 36 people were murdered between 1998 and 2010.

sons and daughters of the town

literature

  • M. McDonald: Put Your Whole Self In . Penguin Books, Ringwood 1992, ISBN 0-14-016818-4 . - An account of a women's hydrotherapy group at the Brunswick Baths.

Web links

Commons : Brunswick, Victoria  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Brunswick ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 20, 2020.
  2. ^ William F. O'Donnell: Transport in Brunswick 1839-1995 . Ed .: Francesca Folk-Scolaro. Brunswick Community History Group, Brunswick (Australia) 1999, ISBN 0-9587742-5-0 .