Tarrington

Tarrington
State :  Australia State : Victoria Founded : 1869
Coordinates : 37 ° 46 ′  S , 142 ° 6 ′  E Coordinates: 37 ° 46 ′  S , 142 ° 6 ′  E Area : 55.9  km²
Residents : 301 (2016) Population density : 5.4 inhabitants per km²
Time zone : AEST (UTC + 10) Postal code : 3301 LGA : Southern Grampians Shire
Tarrington

Tarrington is a village in the administrative area Southern Grampians Shire in the southwest of the Australian state of Victoria .

According to the 2006 census, Tarrington had 193 residents that year and 450 five years later. By 2016, the population had dropped back to 301.

geography

The village is located on the Hamilton Highway , about nine kilometers east of the city of Hamilton , which is the seat of the administrative area and - because of the sheep farming traditionally located here - describes itself  as the Wool Capital of the World (German: Weltwollhauptstadt).

history

Tarrington is a Sorbian foundation: The place was founded in 1853 as Bukecy ( Sorbian name of Hochkirch in Oberlausitz ) by Sorbian immigrants from Saxony . These had left their homeland because of religious tensions, political imponderables and economic difficulties.

On September 5, 1851, they boarded the emigrant ship Helene of the shipping company J.C. , which was launched shortly before the voyage at the Reiherstieg shipyard in Hamburg. Godeffroy & Son . Sources list 128 to 163 passengers on board, the majority (98 of 128) of whom were Sorbs. According to the passenger lists known today, there were about 46 children among them. On December 24, 1851, the ship arrived in Port Adelaide . Initially, most of the settlers settled near Adelaide and in the Barossa Valley .

In search of better and bigger properties, some of them eventually came to Victoria near the town of Hamilton. The place where they settled was called Bukecy , since most of the families came from places in the parish such as Meschwitz , Steindörfel , Zschorna and Kuppritz . The name is derived from the word buk , which means " beech ". However, the German name "Hochkirch" soon became common for the place in Australia. The post office of the same name opened on February 15, 1861. The settlement grew rapidly and by 1869 it had about 850 inhabitants. There was a school and a library. The best-known company in the area at the time was Oscar Mueller's newspaper publisher.

Due to the anti-German mood in the country caused by the First World War , Hochkirch, like many other German settlements in Australia, was renamed on March 1, 1918 and was subsequently given the current name Tarrington .

The place currently has a Lutheran school, a daycare center, a restaurant, a quarry and a fire station. Worth seeing is the Lutheran Church of St. Michaels , whose parish maintains contact with the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Hochkirch, Saxony.

literature

• Trudla Malinkowa: Shore of Hope. Sorbian emigrants overseas . Bautzen 1995, ISBN 3-7420-1634-2 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Australian Bureau of Statistics : Tarrington ( English ) In: 2016 Census QuickStats . June 27, 2017. Retrieved April 19, 2020.
2. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Tarrington (L) (Urban Center / Locality) ( English ) In: 2006 Census QuickStats . October 25, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
3. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics : Tarrington (SSC) (State Suburb) ( English ) In: 2006 Census QuickStats . October 25, 2007. Retrieved December 6, 2015.
4. ↑ Helene's passenger list on www.theshipslist.com , accessed on November 15, 2015
5. ↑ Line service of Joh. Ces. Godeffroy & Son , accessed November 15, 2015
6. ↑ Helene's passenger list at www.pfhl.de , accessed on November 15, 2015
7. ↑ List of post offices in Australia , accessed November 15, 2015
8. ↑ GenWiki , accessed November 15, 2015
9. ↑ "Sorbian emigrants from our parish in Australia" on the homepage of Ev.-Luth. Hochkirch parish, accessed on November 15, 2015