Moculta. Sth Aust. The pretty and historic Daniel Lemke pipe organ in the Gruenberg Lutheran Church with its painted wooden ceiling. Church was built in 1864 with the help of funds from George Fife Angas. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Moculta. Sth Aust. The pretty and historic Daniel Lemke pipe organ in the Gruenberg Lutheran Church with its painted wooden ceiling. Church was built in 1864 with the help of funds from George Fife Angas. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Moculta and Gruenberg. The town is very much a Barossa township, dominated by the Silesian traditions of its first German inhabitants. Prior to their arrival the Peramangk Aboriginal people roamed the area and the duck ponds near Moculta were an Aboriginal campsite. Moculta is a local Aboriginal word. The town is in the Hundred of Moorooroo (declared 1847) and some of the land here was part of one of the seven Special Surveys that Charles Flaxman ordered for his boss, George Fife Angas and the rest was government land surveyed around 1851.That was the year that Abraham Shannon purchased several sections freehold. Before the town was established in 1865 the local leaseholders and freeholders were Joseph Keynes, William and Abraham Shannon and Pulteney Murray. It was Abraham Shannon (1820 to 1875) who established the town of Moculta with 29 allotments on some of his land in 1865. He and his father William arrived from Ireland in 1843 as Anglo Irish people. William Shannon had seven sons from two marriages and lived at St Kitts. The grand 11 roomed mansion of Abraham Shannon called Teeneeningla was demolished a few years ago, but the family mausoleum, still on private property still exists. It was erected in 1875 when Abraham died. Abraham Shannon had eleven children. The Shannon property was called Duck Ponds and remained in the family until in 1910 when the last 2,724 acres were sold. The other big land owner of the district were Pulteney Murray (1817 to 1879) of Glen Turret. Pulteney Murray also had holdings at Gumeracha and Truro. As a wealthy sheep pastoralist he created a grand house by adding five large rooms in 1869 to his eight roomed house of 1847. When the Murrays left the property after World War One (1919) it was 10,137 acres in size. The streets of Moculta were named after Abraham Shannon’s children. Within a few years the town had two blacksmiths and a general store opened in 1877 by Ernst Hentschke who also ran the Post Office. He was a prominent member of the Gruenberg Lutheran Church. After his death in 1907 his son continued the general store business until around 1940. The Moculta Post Office closed in 1982. The Linke Implement factory operated from 1873 until 1933 in Moculta and made agricultural implements and employed up to 45 people. Another important manufacturer of sorts in Moculta was Daniel Lemke who made pipe organs. He built at least thirteen but only four are known to exist these days. Like other Barossa towns Moculta had two Lutheran congregations. Gruenberg (originally Grünberg or Green Hill) Church and school room was built just out of the town in 1859 and the people there were followers of Pastor Kavel from Hahndorf. The grand Church was completed a few years later in 1864. The church tower and bell was erected in 1914 as a fifty year jubilee addition. Inside the church there is an Angaston marble altar, a painted ceiling and a small monument to George Fife Angas who contributed to the cost of building the church. At Gruenberg a Lutheran School started in 1857 but when numbers declined in 1887 it closed and their children went to the Moculta Lutheran School. The Lutheran School in Moculta was closed by Act of parliament in 1917 and re-opened ten days later as a government school. The church at Gruenberg was renamed Karalta in 1917 but changed back to Gruenberg in 1975 although locals never used the name Karalta. Services were conducted in German until 1937 when English was introduced. After World War Two a Soldiers Memorial Hall was built in Moculta in 1957. The Gruenberg congregation owned the Moculta Lutheran School when it closed in 1917. They leased it to the state government for the state school until 1930 when the sold it to the SA government for £850. The Shannon sandstone mausoleum with marble interiors was built in 1876-77 by Eliza Shannon in memory of her husband Abraham Shannon. This unique private mausoleum has twenty sides to give it a round appearance. Abraham Shannon arrived in SA in 1839 and was soon joined by his brother David and his father William in 1843. His father William and his sons settled on land they called Duck Ponds at Moculta. The Shannon family soon befriended their neighbours Pulteney Murray family on an adjoining property. The two families had a school built on the border of their lands for their children. Three of Abraham’s eldest children married Murray children. As noted above Margaret Shannon married Richard Keynes of Keyneton. Burials in the Shannon Mausoleum in order of year of death. Some died earlier or elsewhere and were reinterred here later.John Mahood( Abraham’s brother-in-law) ; Abraham Shannon (child) ; Henry Shannon(child); Edwin Shannon; William Shannon ( Abraham’s father 1866); Catharine Mahood( mother-in-law?) ; Abraham Shannon ( the landowner 1875); Sarah Shannon; David Shannon (child); Eliza Shannon ( Abraham’s wife 1883 nee Mahood); Abraham Shannon; Jessie Shannon; John Shannon; Anne Hotham( child); Eliza Grieve; Francis Scammell; Alice Shannon; David Shannon; Charles Grieve; Mary Scammell; Abraham Shannon; Mabel Shannon; Gladys Dean; and Fannie Fairweather. |
| 撮影日 | 2023-04-02 16:50:10 |
| 撮影者 | denisbin |
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