Marburg (Queensland)

Marburg is a small village in the south east Queensland with 536 inhabitants. It is located about 55 km west of the capital Brisbane queensländischen immediately adjacent to the Warrego Highway towards Toowoomba. Part of Marburg is located in the LGA Somerset region, the other in the LGA Ipswich City. Near the village there is the Marburg Range, a small mountain range.

Name

Was named Marburg modeled after the same German city of Marburg in Hesse, what certainly was responsible for ensuring that settled many German settlers in the 19th century at this point. However defeated her name several changes, they first wore various other names such as Sally Owens Plains, Rosewood Scrub and Frederick, before it received its present name around the year 1870. During the First World War it was again renamed desselbigen occasion, in Townsend, but received its name in 1920 in Marburg.

Why it was named after the city of Marburg, is largely unclear. Some people think that because the incoming German settlers in the 1870s mentioned, the place resembled the German Marburg. Another anecdote was able to report that a local " station manager" ( Meier? / Head? / Bailiff? ) The settlement the name of "Marburg" was because the German settlers stubbornly only " above is " or something like that said what probably should have the English " over there " met.

With speculation about the name is to remember also that some other places in the vicinity were also given German names that have little to do with Marburg, so Minden, Prenzlau and Kirchheim (now Haigslea ).

The most plausible explanation is probably that part of the German settlers from the area of ​​Marburg originated.

History

The native people of the plains were the Marburgischen Jagara.

The settlement flourished in the 1870s. A large proportion of in those years colonizing settlers here were from Germany, which was certainly responsible for ensuring that the settlement was named Marburg. Those German settlers also gave other places near German name, Minden, Prenzlau and Kirchheim (now Haigslea ).

One of the most significant in the early period was the lumbering industries in the nearby Rosewood Scrub. In the 1880s, was built at the nearby Woodlands a sugar cane plantation and sugar mill, where also some Melanesian foreign workers were employed. In 1889 the entrepreneur Thomas Lorimer Smith built there by the architect George Brockwell Gill a house, which is now regarded as one of the major attractions of the place.

1879 Marburg was a private school building, the school was initially " Frederich School" ( Friederich - school? ) Called. In the same year, 1879, (or 1881? ) The " Marburg Hotel " was built, which is the most important buildings in the city today. 1885 Art school was built in Marburg, and on the occasion of its opening Marburg was the first time a street lighting.

From the 1920s up to the 1970s, the main road ran through Marburg. Since this is halfway between Brisbane and Toowoomba, and it was his " Half-Way Café" a popular stopover of motorists. Today, the Warrego Highway is located just north of the city.

In the area around Marburg, Warrego in the valley, today it grows, it is likely to be one of the tropics next wine-growing regions of the world.

Also located in Marburg, a radar station, which is used, among other things, for meteorological purposes.