Sevenhill. Clare Valley. The Madonna Public Hall built in 1904 for the Convent School in Sevenhill but used for general pulic hall functions. : 無料・フリー素材/写真
Sevenhill. Clare Valley. The Madonna Public Hall built in 1904 for the Convent School in Sevenhill but used for general pulic hall functions. / denisbin
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| 説明 | Sevenhill. South Australia has been called the “Paradise of Dissent” as the nonconformist Protestant churches played such a significant role in the early history of this state but there have always been important enclaves of Irish and German Catholic populations in the Clare Valley. In 1848 a Silesian farmer, Francis (Franz) Weckert (Weikert) gathered together a group of people interested in forming a new community free of religious persecution in South Australia. He and his followers wanted to escape the 1848 revolutions of Europe that had only tightened regulations on them in protestant Germany. Weickert financed the voyage for needy people and they arrived in December 1848 from Hamburg on the Alfred. Weickert was 56 years old and his occupation was listed on the arrival list as Jesuit Mission leader. His wife Fransiska and their nine children travelled with him and 130 German Catholics. Weckert purchased some land at Sevenhill and he obtained the services of a Father Aloysius Kranewitter, a Jesuit brother and two others called Schriener and Sadler for the SA community. In 1849 the Catholic Church in Austria sent a sizable sum of money to Father Kranewitter for his new community. In 1851 Father Kranewitter headed north with over 100 German immigrants to settle on the 100 acres of fertile land he had leased from Thomas Burr in the Clare Valley with a 31 year lease with the option to buy at £3 to £7 per acre by the end of the lease. He had previously leased some other land where there was a house for himself and his fellow priests. More money arrived from Austria for the proposed community in early 1850 and Bishop Murphy the Catholic bishop in Adelaide also gave some money. Section 91 of the Hundred of Clare was surveyed for leased town allotments. In January 1851 Father Kranewitter leased for just £2 per acre with right of purchase the site of the future church and seminary and college. Father Kranewitter named the locality Sevenhill and the local stream the Tiber (after the River in Rome) and the seven hills of Rome. In 1855 Father Kranewitter obtained possession of the town allotments and then gradually sold them freehold to establish the little town. Meantime Father Kranewitter established the first church and the first Catholic seminary in Australia. The Sevenhill College was also established in 1856. Eventually the Jesuits owned over 1,000 acres of freehold land around Sevenhill. Until settled by act of parliament in 1940 people were unsure of whether the town was Sevenhill or Sevenhills but Kranewitter had called it Sevenhill. Francis Weickert never recovered his money from the settlers’ voyage and died a poor man at Sevenhill in October 1875. He had paid for some of the families to migrate on condition that they repaid the money or worked for him on his property for no wages. Weickert also donated some of his own land to the Jesuits. He was buried in the Jesuit Sevenhill cemetery in 1875. The ruins of his house built in 1865, his dairy and his outbuildings still exists below the Catholic Church and seminary. The settlement of Sevenhill grew very slowly until the 1870s. The Black Eagle Hotel was built and licensed in 1863 with the brother of Father Kranewitter, Antony Kranewitter as the publican. When Antony Kranewitter died in 1875 he was still the publican of the Black Eagle. Thomas Fogden then became the licensee. When John Bowden took it over in 1918 he had the name changed to the Sevenhill Hotel. A stone general store opened in the 1860s around the time that the hotel opened. Look for the Rosella pickles advertisement on the side wall. Just along the street is the Madonna Hall built in 1904. Although blessed as a catholic building it was also a community hall. A dance was held in the Catholic hall just weeks after it was officially opened. The hall was used for public meetings and addresses on political issues, political party events, election polling booth, Red Cross and sporting club meetings, wedding receptions, strawberry fetes, euchre evenings, concerts and all the usual functions of a public hall. Despite it being a Catholic village Sevenhill also had a state government school. The Catholic boy’s college at St Aloysius Church opened in 1856 and closed in 1886. The state government school operated from 1859 to 1956. In 1899 a new state school room was built to the north of the town. It closed in 1956 and is now a private residence. In 1880 the Sisters of St Joseph established a school and convent in Sevenhill. After the Madonna Hall opened in 1904 many of their activities were held in that hall. The War Memorial in front of the hall was unveiled by the SA Premier in 1921. Presumably the early monks baked their own bread for the seminary and college at Sevenhill but the town when it emerged had no bakery. Bread was probably delivered from Clare. Today Sevenhill has the relatively recent bakery called the Little Red Grape. |
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