Righting a wrong: old names return |
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| Title : | Righting a wrong: old names return |
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| Source : | Mount Barker courier and Onkaparinga and Gumeracha advertiser, 3 October 1935, p. 1 | ||
| Date of creation : | 1935 | ||
| Format : | Newspaper | ||
| Contributor : | State Library catalogue | ||
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| Description : |
During the First World War, anti-German sentiment permeated South Australia. In 1917 an act was passed to change German place names to English ones. This newspaper article from the Mount Barker Courier announces the decision to restore German place names in South Australia. Mount Barker is in the Adelaide Hills, an area that has many towns originally settled by German immigrants. Adelaide Hills towns that had undergone name changes include Hahndorf (Ambleside) and Lobethal (Tweedvale). |
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| Further reading : | Harmstorf, Ian, ed. The German experience of Australia 1833-1938, [Bedford Park, SA]: The Australian Association of von Humboldt Fellows, The Flinders University of South Australia, 1988 Praite, J. German placenames in Sth. Aust., [Adelaide: J & R Praite], 1989 Reynolds, GT. German placenames in Australia changed during the Great War 1914-1918, Batemans Bay, NSW: Possum Printing, c1991 State Library of South Australia. Germans in South Australia, [Adelaide]: State Library of South Australia, 1995 Van Abbe, Derek. The Germans in South Australia: the story of the German communities in South Australia |
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