Tanunda

Tanunda
Tanunda in the background (view from the hill of the Barossa sculpture symposia )
State :  Australia State : South Australia Founded : 1848
Coordinates : 34 ° 32 '  S , 138 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 34 ° 32 '  S , 138 ° 57'  E Area : 8.8  km²
Residents : 4,324 (2016) Population density : 491 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : ACST (UTC + 9: 30) Postal code : 5352 LGA : Barossa Council
Tanunda

Tanunda is a town in the Barossa Valley , South Australia , 69 kilometers northeast of Adelaide .

The city is on the Barossa Valley Highway . The name of the city comes from the language of the Aborigines and means something like "water hole". In 2016 the place had about 4,300 inhabitants. Tanunda is part of the Barossa Council .

history

Before the settlement by European immigrants, a small number of Aborigines lived in the area.

The first European explorers came through the Barossa Valley in 1838 under the leadership of Colonel William Light . The first settlement from which today's Tanunda emerged was Bethanien. Prussian immigrants settled there in 1842 , who had recently arrived on Skjold with Pastor Gotthard Fritzsche . The next settlement followed in 1843 when further Prussian immigrants from Klemzig (today's Klępsk ), where they lived with Pastor August Kavel in 1838, moved to the newly founded Langmeil. Tanunda village was founded some time later. For a long time, people assumed that Tanunda was a German word. It was not until 1859 that the local newspaper "The Register" made reference to the Aborigines.

Langmeil and Bethanien were renamed Bilyara and Bethany during an attempt to ban German place names from Australia during the First World War . Langmeil changed its name back in 1975. The places grew together over the years, so that today the entire city is called Tanunda.

In the early 1930s, party branches of the NSDAP / AO (foreign organizations of the NSDAP ) emerged in Australia in Brisbane , Melbourne , Sydney and Tanunda. The main initiator was Johannes Heinrich Becker (1898–1961), who had settled in Tanunda after emigrating in 1927. He was district leader of the NSDAP / AO for Australia and the Pacific region from 1932 to 1936 and chairman of the NSDAP / AO party organization in Tanunda. Becker was interned during the Second World War and expelled to Bremen in December 1947.

The legacy of German immigrants is still there today. In Tanunda there is a men's choir, the Tanunda Liedertafel , which has existed since 1868 , and a bowling club. There are also German butchers, bakers and restaurants in the city. The place itself is surrounded by vineyards in 2009.

Web links

Commons : Tanunda, South Australia  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Tanunda ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 8, 2020.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} The Sydney Morning Herald, February 8, 2004: Tanunda
3. ↑ John Perkins: Becker, Johannes Heinrich (1898–1961) , from 1993, on Australian Dictionary of Biography . Retrieved December 1, 2017