Warrandyte, Victoria

Warrandyte is a suburb of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia and is located approximately 24 km north-east of the city center of Melbourne. The city is part of the Local Government Area Manningham City. At the 2006 census Warrandyte had 7393 inhabitants.

Warrandyte is bordered to the west by the Mullum Mullum Creek and Target Road, on the north by the Yarra River, on the east by the Jumping Creek and Anzac Road and on the south by an imaginary line from the Reynolds Road north of Donvale Park Orchards over after South Warrandyte.

Warrandyte was established as a separate colony in the once gold-rich hills east of Melbourne, and today represents the northeastern boundary of the urban area of Melbourne dar. 1851 for the first time gold was discovered in the city and so led them along with other cities in Victoria, such as Bendigo and Ballarat, the way to the victorian gold rush. Today Warrandyte preserves the memory of his past in many surviving buildings from the colonial period and survived as a twin city along with North Warrandyte on the banks of the Yarra River continued.

Today, the suburb is known for its devotion of its inhabitants to environmental protection. There are regular, conservation programs, and large and small plots of land were reserved for nature conservation or environmental projects. The Warrandyte Festival is held every year in March; a parade, live music, stalls for food and other goods, as well as events for children are just some of the things that you can see at the festival, which is one of the last organized by volunteers festivals in Victoria.

• 3.1 Warrandyte center & Yarra River
• 3.2 Andersons Creek
• 3.3 Mullum Mullum Creek east bank of the

Origin of the name

In Aboriginal mythology, there is a saga of the Wurundjeri, after a great eagle, " the all-powerful and always attentive creator of the world " Bunjil appointed, who looked " once on his people from star Altair and her wrongdoing recognized. He dashed with a mighty thunderclap a star down on them and destroyed them. " Where the star hit, there was a ravine in which the largest part of the city today. Bunjils people remembered the place and called him Warrandyte, which is probably " what was thrown " is.

History

Before the arrival of the Europeans

The area originally lived one or more strains of the Wurundjeri, Aborigines of the Kulin Nation, who used a type of Woiwurrung language. Warrandyte was for them an important place because nature had there formed a canyon that inspired many Wurundjeri Saying, including that of Bunjil. Tens of thousands of years, they farmed the land extensively. An example of this is the tradition that neighboring clans undertook not to fish in the Yarra River when the fish stock was too low. This gave the fish the opportunity to recover from the fishery, so that people do not type entirely exterminated. This principle was also applied in hunting and gathering, as well as in the use of trees.

The discovery of gold and its exploitation

Main article: Victorianischer Gold Rush

1851 gold was discovered in Victoria for the first time, namely at Andersons Creek in Warrandyte of Louis Michel. The exact reference is identifiable by a Steinmann on Fourth Hill in the Warrandyte State Park. This was the beginning of the Victorian gold rush, but major seizures in Ballarat and Bendigo in the area of the prospectors moved there at the beginning and not after Warrandyte. Although there were at the height of the gold rush some gold mines in the area, but only at the end of the 19th century, when the gold veins were exhausted in the better known gold fields, the area was around Warrandyte exploited intensively, especially around the Fourth Hill and the Whipstick Gully. Some mines were operated until the 1960s. The first post office in Warrandyte opened on 1 August 1857.

Throughout Warrandyte can be found on the river traces of exploitation; a classic example in the tunnel at Pound Bend. The river was partially dammed at Pound Bend near Normans Reserve in the east and in the Bob's Wetlands in the West. Later, the flow at the inlet and outlet of the new tunnel was completely closed off and passed through a 300 meter- long tunnel, which 3850 m river bed were drained in the Pound Bend and the gold could be exploited.

Artist colony

At the end of the 19th century and early 20th century Warrandyte was popular with artists Heidelberg School, which further investigated in the hinterland after motifs. This led to the construction of a warehouse and a small artist colony. Although this colony was not as important as Heidelberg, Montsalvat and Box Hill, but could be a number of painters of the Australian Impressionism, such as Clara Southern, in Warrandyte down. Others followed, such as Penleigh Boyd and Jo Sweatman.

Potters ' Cottage

Opened in 1958, a group of potters who were looking for an opportunity to exhibit and sell their goods, Potters ' Cottage in an old prospectors cabin near the bridge. The founding members were Artur Halpern, Reg Preston, Phyl Dunn, Gus McLaren and Charles Wilton. Sylvia Halpern, Kate Janeeba and Elsa Ardern joined the group in 1961 after Potters ' Cottage was moved to a farmhouse at the corner of Jumping Creek Road and the road from Warrandyte Ringwood. Last member of the group was Peter Laycock, who joined in 1969. Potters ' Cottage was operated until 2005.

The Bridge

In Warrandyte there was always a river crossing at the site of the present bridge. Prior to the construction of bridges, there was a punt, which translated over the Yarra River to North Warrandyte. Before the construction of the Upper Yarra reservoirs heavy rains led to floods that washed downriver to punt from Warrandyte after Templestowe. The people there then in turn used it to cross the Yarra River at the site of the present suspension bridge at Oddessey House. The first bridge in Warrandyte established in 1861 by urgent demands of the citizens. Most of the cost was the State of Victoria, the rest of the people of Warrandyte and Warrandyte North. This bridge was completely made in the area harvested timber and was 8 km east of the present bridge. She stood for 90 years until the construction of the current bridge in the 1950s from that time in Australia completely new building materials - concrete and steel.

Bush fire

Large bushfires have Warrandyte always covered and 1939 the city was the center of bushfires on Black Friday, during which 71 people were killed. Many examples of colonial architecture were destroyed by bushfire, but there are still a number of original buildings from this period. Very recently, the fire department of Warrandyte zones for counterfire to possible forest fires in the season to take the food that the city has well prepared for such a fire. The people of Warrandyte are constantly aware of the danger and most know each other well with evacuation plans and countermeasures. The bush fires on black Saturday, 2009 in Kinglake were only 15 minutes away from North Warrandyte. The most famous bush fires, which covered Warrandyte, were:

• February 6, 1851: bushfire on Black Thursday
• January 13, 1939: bushfire on Black Friday
• 14th - 16th January 1962

Location

Warrandyte is located on the south bank of the Yarra River. The river and the hills around the city were once rich in gold. The ruins of mines and tunnels are found throughout the Warrandyte State Park and at other locations. The city center is situated in a gorge of the river, but the whole suburb extends over other areas and, as follows, be split:

Warrandyte center & Yarra River

Warrandyte center consists of the main road to Ringwood, the. Heidelberg ( Yarra Street), Pound Bend and the south bank of the Yarra River This area is also sometimes called Town, in contrast to the south and west adjoining suburbs.

Andersons Creek

The Andersons Creek flows through the neighboring cities of Warrandyte South and Warranwood and ends just before the Pound Bend in the Yarra River. In this area some canyons come together and form a valley that is bounded on the west by Fourth Hill in the east and the hills on the east bank of the Mullum Mullum Creek. This becomes apparent when traveling on the road to Heidelberg by Warrandyte, which leads down the hill to the Andersons Creek.

Mullum Mullum Creek east bank of the

On the east bank of the Mullum Mullum Creek, there were extensive orchards, the drag over the neighboring East Doncaster. Therefore, most of the original vegetation has been cleared. Today, residential buildings covered the land, because the building codes allowed a division into larger plots. Further south is Aumann 's Orchard, one of the still existing traditional orchards in the area.

Large areas around Warrandyte managed by Parks Victoria or are privately owned, such as the Long Ridge Farm. There you will find dense and species-rich eucalyptus forests.

The following watercourses pass through Warrandyte or adjacent to the City:

• Yarra River
• Jumping Creek
• Parson Gully
• Mullum Mullum Creek
• Andersons Creek

Other geographical attractions in Warrandyte are:

• Harris Gully
• Beauty Gully
• Fourth Hill
• Pound Bend
• Pound Bend Tunnel
• The Iceland
• Black Flat
• Whipstick Gully
• Specimen Gully

Ecology

In the 19th century, almost the entire natural vegetation has been cut in the area, mostly for agricultural, construction or mining purposes. The risk of forest fires that have destroyed each important parts or even the entire city, the great distance from the city center of Melbourne, and later the plant of the green belt restricted the urban development in Warrandyte in the 20th century. Thus, the natural vegetation was able to recover. What is seen today it is again created all the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Traffic

The traffic in Warrandyte is handled mainly with private cars, but there are also public buses that are operated by the Ventura (formerly National) bus company. The lines 906 and 364 ride on the road to Ringwood and the lines 201, 305, 308, 155, 156, 159, 578 and 579 on the road to Heidelberg ( Yarra Street). At the Yarrabrücke keep the lines 155, 156, 159, 201, 304, 305, 308 Both roads lead to the suburbs of Warrandyte. Most of the traffic through Warrandyte into the neighboring towns of East Doncaster, Wonga Park, North Warrandyte and Park Orchards, but also to more distant suburbs of Melbourne.

The rush hour traffic always goes along the main roads in the west and south of Warrandyte or the Eastern Freeway.

The main roads of Warrandyte are:

• Reynolds Road
• Tindals Road
• Beauty Gully Road
• Harris Gully Road
• Gold Memorial Road
• Pound Road
• Webb Street
• Jumping Creek Road
• Yarra Street

Community facilities

In Warrandyte there is a post office, tennis courts, a community center, RSL, various bed and breakfast hotels, restaurants, police station, a fire station, two kindergartens, two sports fields ( football and cricket), the Warrandyte Community Church, churches of the Anglican and the Uniting Church, the cemetery at Anderson's Creek, a division of the Boy Scouts, canoeing briefs, a skatepark, creches, teahouses and the Crystal Brook Holiday Centre.

Schools in Warrandyte:

• Warrandyte High School
• Anderson's Creek Primary School
• Warrandyte Primary School

Stores in Warrandyte:

• Goldfields Plaza
• Shops on both sides of the main streets and around the bridge

Parks & Recreation

Many people who live outside Warrandyte, come to the city in order, as well as the inhabitants to exercise various recreational activities. For example, are the hiking, cycling, mountain biking, tennis, basketball, football, cricket, swimming in the Yarra River, canoeing and kayaking, skateboarding, cross-country hiking etc.

Parks, gardens and recreational areas in Warrandyte are:

• Warrandyte State Park ( including Pound Bend, Fouth Hill, Black Flat, Mount Lofty and others)
• Pound Bend Reserve
• Stiggants reserve
• Warrandyte Reserve / Taroona Reserve ( is the site of Warrandyte Cricket Club, which was founded in 1855 and the fourth oldest in Victoria, the Warrandyte Bloods The Football Club, which plays in the Eastern Football League, the Warrandyte Junior Football Club and Warrandyte Netball Clubs)
• Long Ridge Farm
• Alexander reserve
• Currawong Bush Park ( Environmental Center & Wildlife Park )
• Wildflower Reserve
• Andersons Creek Streamside Reserve