Prenzlau (Queensland)

Prenzlau is a town with 1120 inhabitants in the Lockyer Valley region of south-east Queensland, Australia. It is part of the LGA Somerset and very much influenced by agriculture. The place is located about 70 kilometers west of Brisbane on the Warrego Highway immediately.

This area was the late 19th century by German immigrants from the Uckermark, mainly from Prenzlau colonized. The Prenzlau State School, founded in 1894 still exists today with about 30 students and it is even now still taught, among other things German. From 1894 to 1968, there was a post office in Prenzlau.

Besides Prenzlau there are numerous other places founded by Germans, such as Minden and Marburg.