Steinfeld or Stonefield. St Stephens Lutheran Church was built in 1911 with an Lutheran school attached. The state school closed in 1969. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Steinfeld or Stonefield. St Stephens Lutheran Church was built in 1911 with an Lutheran school attached. The state school closed in 1969. / denisbin
| ライセンス | クリエイティブ・コモンズ 表示-改変禁止 2.1 |
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| 説明 | Steinfeld. German settlers from the Barossa moved east of Truro onto the Murray Flats in this area around 1880. One of the first farmers was William Steinert who leased land here from 1881 before he finally purchased the land in 1887. So the tiny settlement may have been called Steinfeld after Steinert’s field as he selected 527 acres in 1881. It was Steinert who requested a grant of two acres from the Commissioner of Crown Lands in 1885 for a Lutheran Church. Thus St Stephen’s Evangelical Lutheran Church and school room was erected in 1885. Once the farmers were better established in this marginal farming area on the edge of Goyder’s Line a larger Lutheran Church was built in 1911 and it still serves the local Lutheran community. The first church still stands next to it as does the manse on the eastern side. Behind the church is the locality cemetery with many headstones written only in German. Whilst most Lutheran cemeteries had headstones in English after World War One there are several headstones in German dated 1940 to 1943 well after the start of World War Two. It is surprising to find headstones in German after 1939. One headstone was that of the Lutheran Pastor Peter Breier who served the Steinfeld Church from 1902 to 1940. The original church built in 1885 became the school room only once the larger church was opened in 1911. Several local German background families (Mathias, August and Vogt) were also Moravian Brethren and they too worshiped at the Lutheran Church with occasional services from Pastor Buck from the Moravian community at Bethel. Then in 1917 like all Lutheran Schools it was closed by act of parliament. It re-opened as a state school with the Education Department renting the old Lutheran School room. Another act of parliament during of 1917 during World War One saw all German place names changed and Steinfeld became Burnta an Aboriginal word for stone. The locals disliked that and it was changed to the Anglicised version of Steinfeld which is Stonefield in 1918. It remained Stonefield until it was changed back in 1986 although the settlement entrance sign still says Stonefield. The state school at Stonefield moved from the church to a wooden government transportable building in 1959 with the school finally closing in 1969. Steinfeld and Stonefield also had a Post Office from 1885 to 1977 but now only a couple of houses remain. The house beside the Lutheran Church was the Lutheran manse built in 1890 for Pastor Lohe. Farming at Steinfeld was always difficult because of its location on the edge of Goyder’s Line but farmers persisted and in most years good crops are obtained. East of Steinfeld the country is only used for pastoralism as the annual rainfall drops quickly. Tiny places like Steinfeld sometimes got into the daily press such as 28 September 1887 when 9 year old Bertha Liebig disappeared when going to visit a neighbour. Fifty horse men and police from Truro and Blanchetown searched for the girl without success. Two days later she turned up at a farm 22 miles away none the worse for her ordeal. She had simple got lost. Apart from the Steinert family the Nitschke family settled at Steinfeld in 1896 and other pioneering families were the Saegenschnitter, Linke and Obst families. The first pioneer William Steinert and many members of his family are also buried in the Stonefield cemetery. |
| 撮影日 | 2016-07-24 10:45:53 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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