Walla Walla (New South Wales)

Walla Walla is a town in Greater Hume Shire in the Australian state of New South Wales. It is located 39 km north of Albury - Wadonga and 130 km south of Wagga Wagga.

The place where it is warm in the summer average 31 ° C, has about 700 residents and was founded in 1869 by 56 German families from the Barossa Valley in South Australia, as they decided to accept land, which to them by the New South Wales - Government has been approved. With 14 covered wagons, they settled into a six-week trip out of the area about six hundred miles distant. First, the place was called " Ebenezer ". There was this place names in the state of New South Wales already, the city was later renamed " Walla Walla ", which translates as "place of many rocks " means in the language of the Aborigines.

In Walla Walla is the largest Lutheran church in NSW, which was built in 1874. There is also in the city the only Lutheran secondary school of the State and the St. Paul 's College.

Walla Walla is the hometown of Walla Walla Football Club, an association of Hume Football Association.

Each year in November, held on the second Sunday of the month, the " Walla Walla Heritage Festival".