Freeling (South Australia)

Freeling
Gungellan Hotel in Freeling
State :  Australia State : South Australia Founded : 1860
Coordinates : 34 ° 27 ′  S , 138 ° 48 ′  E Coordinates: 34 ° 27 ′  S , 138 ° 48 ′  E Height : 197  m Area : 2.6  km²
Residents : 2,052 (2016) Population density : 789 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC +9: 30) Postal code : 5372
LGA : Light Regional Council Website : www.freeling.sa.gov.au
Freeling

Freeling is a small town in South Australia about 60 km north of Adelaide with 2052 inhabitants (as of 2011). The place is in hilly farmland, which is considered to be the best in Australia . The area is the cultivation center for grain in Australia, which also houses an agricultural training and research center in Roseworthy , a small town not far from Freeling. The Agpoint , a large agricultural suppliers, is based in Freeling.

Freeling is also known in Germany through the television series McLeod's Töchter , as Freeling is the location for almost all film scenes in a rural town in this series.

history

Freelings St Peter's Uniting Church

Freeling was founded in 1860 by Robert Stephenson and named after Sir Arthur Henry Freeling , Major General of South Australia from 1849 to 1861. In 1860 Freeling became a stop on the railway between Gawler and Kapunda . Freeling is home to the Freeling Hotel , the Railway Hotel (now the Gungellan Hotel ) and St Peter's Uniting Church , all of which were built in the early years of the town's foundation.

The place is home to clubs for Australian football , netball , cricket , bowls , basketball and tennis .

Because of the television series, numerous tourists come to the place, there are also guided tours to the well-known locations of the television film.

Not far from Freeling is the Barossa Valley , a well-known wine-growing region in Australia.

literature

• Kuhlmann, Thelma & Bockmann, Owen. Horses, Harrows and Haystacks: Freeling Through the Years 1860-1980 . Adelaide: Freeling Women's Agricultural Bureau, 1981. ISBN 0-9595629-4-X

Web links

Commons : Freeling, South_Australia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Information about Freeling at www.australianexplorer.com
• Light Regional Council page on Freeling

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Freeling ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
2. ↑ Information on www.down-under-guide.com ( Memento of the original dated August 14, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 1, 2011  
3. ↑ Biography of Arthur Freeling in Australian Dictionary of Biography online . Retrieved February 1, 2011.