Sedan. Pilgrim Zion Lutheran church was built in 1923. It replaced an earlier 1873 church. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Sedan. Pilgrim Zion Lutheran church was built in 1923. It replaced an earlier 1873 church. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Sedan.Ample evidence still exists in Sedan and the district of the early building techniques used. The stone buildings show the work of the masons, while the country buildings show the use of mallee root walls, dry stone fences, thatched barns and even the occasional pine and pug hut. The native pine used was Callistris species which are resistant to termites. We will see one such cottage near Sedan. The last remaining mallee root fence in the district has now gone. The dry stone walls are a feature of the eastern side of the Mt Lofty Ranges as the area was scattered with granite boulders and other rocks. Most of these walls were constructed before the 1870s to divide the great pastoral runs. Generally the walls are one metre high, and almost one metre wide at the base tapering to 40 cms at the top. Some walls were built as recently as the Great Depression of the 1930s, especially along road edges of the Sedan Hill road. The mallee root fences were erected as a cheaper version of fencing wire. Sadly all the mallee root fences are now gone. Pine and pug cottage near Sedan.Sedan lies in the Hundred of Bagot on the Murray Plains and was so-named by a farmer of Tanunda, Johann Pfeiffer when he purchased 306 acres of land in the vicinity in 1870. It is presumed he named his property sedan to commemorate the German victory over France in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. At that time he was not able to foresee that other localities in the district would also end up being named after battles. There had been earlier lessees of the land in the area but the leases were forfeited back to the government in August 1860 when the Hundred of Bagot was proclaimed. The land was subsequently surveyed for closer settlement. The rivers of the district were named by the famed SA geologist Menge who called them the North and South Rhine Rivers after the rivers of his homeland in Germany. The first white men to traverse the district were overlanders with flocks of sheep or cattle from NSW. One of their routes was to cross the Murray near Blanchtown and drive their flocks up the Marne River valley and into the Adelaide Hills. The first lessee of the district was George Melrose who took out a leasehold in 1845. He established his homestead at Rosebank, east of Mt Pleasant. The run was inherited by his third son George Melrose (1860-1938) who was born at Rosebank in 1860. He managed other family properties near Cowell and Hallett. He was an important pastoralist as he introduced to Australia the first Dorset sheep, the first French Percheron horses (the police greys) and Wensleydale sheep. He purchased Booborowie station where he lived from 1897. Sir John Stanley Murray (1884-1971) was born on 27 March 1884 at Rosebank and acquired the property from one of his uncles Sir George Murray, a benefactor of the University of Adelaide. He lived on the property and his managers were responsible for its development as a leading Aberdeen Angus stud. Through marriage the property went from the Murrays to the McLachlans. The three families have prominent headstones in the Mt Pleasant cemetery. Land sales started in July 1869 and gentlemen speculators as well as genuine farmers bought the land. The latter group mainly came from the North Rhine district around Keyneton and Eden Valley, but also from other areas of the Barossa Valley. Most were of German descent wanting new agricultural lands for their second and third sons. The town itself was surveyed in 1875 and again in 1883 by C. von Bertouch and very soon the town had a flour miller, a baker, blacksmiths and wheelwrights, a builder –stone mason, hotel keeper, butcher, store keeper, saddler and banker. Today Sedan has few of those services. The map for the self guided walk around Sedan uses the 1883 town survey map. A local Truro contractor Mr. Teasdale-Smith constructed the Cambrai-Sedan railway in 1919. The arrival of the first train was cause for great celebration. The line closed in 1964. One of the more unusual local industries was the production of lime. Between 1890 and 1930 lime kilns out of the town burnt crushed limestone and heated it until it flaked into lime powder. Wool Bay on York Peninsula also had lime kilns like those at Sedan. Electricity reached Sedan in 1956; and reticulated water came in 1968. As noted above many of the early settlers were of German descent and during World War I all German names were changed by law. Rhine Villa became Cambrai, and the North and South Rhine rivers became the Somme and the Marne. All of these names were from WWI battles. During The Battle of the Somme, 1 July 1916, the British suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 dead. It was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army yet despite terrible casualties it was a strategic success in the short term for the Allies against the Germans, as it halted the German advance. The Battle of the Marne, 1914, was a clearer victory for the Allies against the Germans. The Battle of Cambrai in 1917 allowed the British to open up the German lines but not for long. The battle was a stalemate like so many World War One battles. A second Battle of Cambrai in 1918 was a victory for the allies. Johann Pfeiffer’s first cottage in Sedan with adjacent wheat storeCambrai. Cambrai township is located in the Hundred of Angas was laid out as a town by Abel Skinner in 1882. Cambrai prospered once the spur rail line was built from Monarto on the Melbourne line to Cambrai in 1886. (The line closed in 1995.) The school here opened in 1888, three years after the free, compulsory and secular education act. Rheinthal cemetery between Cambrai and Sedan serviced both towns. Before the 1917 Nomenclature Act it was called Rhine Villa. Both English and Germans colonists settled the district. Apart from the Lutheran Church, a Congregational church was built and then replaced with a new building in 1926. Historical Walk in Sedan see map at end of notes. 1.Sedan Hotel opened in 1881. First publican was Robert Fotheringham. Built of limestone with a parapet facing the street. It has a circular water tank at the rear, also built of brick and limestone.2.House opposite the Lutheran Church was formerly a blacksmiths built around 1907. First owner was H. Zadow, Clerk of District Council of Sedan, 1902-1946.3.ANZ Bank built in 1911 with a classical portico and manager’s house attached. Originally the Bank of Adelaide.4.Store or barn with residence in Bank Street bungalow style built in 1927.5.Lutheran School built in 1876 but closed in 1917 during WWI. The dwelling (closer to street) was used by headmaster and built in mid 1870s. The school was built in 1876. Around 1900 students paid £2 per year to attend plus they had to provide chaff and wheat for the teachers’ fowls. Teachers received £70 p.a.6.Pilgrim Zion Lutheran Church constructed of limestone with rendered quoins. Built in 1923. The tapered almost conical tank at the rear is unique. The first church was erected in 1873 but demolished in 1923. This church cost £2.200. 7.Wheat Store built in 1880s. Note the simple gable roof, vents in the wall etc. Adjacent is the pug cottage of Johann Pfeiffer the town founder. Roof timbers are undressed tree trunks. German vernacular in architectural style. 8.Sedan Flour Mill -built in 1882 by Johann Pfeiffer. The residence was erected 1880. Mill ceased operating in 1966. Latz was the builder of the mill.9.Former Police Station. Now a private house. Old cells are out the back. 10.A typical cottage built in the 1880s. Originally owned by E Pfeiffer. Note simple gable roof. 11.Sedan Boarding House built 1894 for Mr. R. Schwanefeldt as a warehouse for his shop. Timber was kept upstairs. Later it was used as a police station, then a butcher shop with the smallgoods being made upstairs. Rooms were let to males. Note the upstairs cantilevered wrought iron balcony balustrade.12.Woolford Memorial Methodist Church. The dedications show this was opened in 1919 in what was predominantly a Lutheran town. Prior to its opening Methodists went to the church at Towitta. 13.Post Office and residence built around 1872 for Johann Pfeiffer. |
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| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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