Peters Hill a Wendish or Sorbian locality near Riverton South Australia. Peters Hill Lutheran Church is only one in Australia where servcies were conducted in Wendish or Sorbian language. Winter crop growing. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Peters Hill a Wendish or Sorbian locality near Riverton South Australia. Peters Hill Lutheran Church is only one in Australia where servcies were conducted in Wendish or Sorbian language. Winter crop growing. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Peters Hill. On the drive out to Peters Hill we will pass the historic Scottish Ettrick Presbyterian cemetery. It is situated on the banks of a creek which feeds the Gilbert River. Only a few headstones remain in this cemetery. Further on we reach Peters Hill and St Petri Lutheran Church. This area was settled by Wends, now known as Sorbs. Most Sorbian families here arrived in SA on the ship San Francisco in 1848 and moved to Hope valley, then on to Houffnungsthal near Lyndoch and then finally to Peters Hill in 1856. The Sorbs came from a specific region of Eastern Germany where they spoke Slavic language related to Polish, but totally unrelated to German. When the Sorbs settled in SA the English settlers assumed they were German because they also spoke German and they were Lutheran. But the Sorbs were a different ethnic group. Today 35,000 people still speak Sorbian in Germany, despite the persecution they suffered from the Nazis during World War Two. After the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, the Congress of Vienna redrew the map of Europe and Lusatia, where the Sorbs lived, was ceded to Prussia from Saxony. The Prussians oppressed the Sorbs and after 1830 many migrated to Australia (as well as Canada etc.) Although the first Sorbs arrived in SA in 1848 the largest migration was in 1853-54 after the great European famine of 1848 and the consequent revolutions. The three major Sorbian settlements in SA were St Kitts (near Nurioopta), Peters Hill and Ebenezer (near St Kitts.) Prominent Sorbian family names in this area included Borrack, Duldig, Huppatz, Noack and Schuppan. St Petri’s Lutheran Church is the only church in Australia to have had services conducted in Sorbian. The last known Sorbian speaker in the area was Mrs. Seipelt who died in 1957. The church was built in 1864 of stone and plastered mud. The cemetery attached to the church is one of two Sorbian cemeteries in the district. The Huppatz family has their own private Sorbian cemetery. It was the Sorbian community, especially from Ebenezer who began the great trek in 1868 to establish the Lutheran settlement of Walla Walla in the Riverina in NSW. Apart from the Sorbs, Robert Hannaford the portrait artist lives at Peters Hill. This spot can be very cold in winter and the SA archives have a photograph of Peters Hill covered in snow in 1906. |
| 撮影日 | 2009-08-02 15:55:56 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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