Germans in early Queensland

From Becoming Queensland - an online exhibition looking at the first 50 years of Queensland, Australia, through stories about the people, places, institutions and lifestyles

that have made it so special 

Farm wagon built in the traditional German style, Ipswich district, ca. 1907, William Higlett. Image No: APO-033-0001-0019

Holzheimer farm at Bethania, Queensland, ca. 1872, William Boag. Image No: 20134

German wagon in Laidley, ca. 1897. Image No: APU-048-0001-0007

First dwelling of a German settler (Erste Wohnhutte eines Deutschen Ansiedlers), possibly Rosewood, ca. 1880. Image No: 168500

Lutheran Christ Church at Highfields ca. 1880. Image No: 7080

Members of the German Club, Brisbane, ca. 1890, Robert Shaw. Image No: 54065. Hermann Viertel is 5th from right at the back, with bowler hat and moustache. Franz Viertel is 3rd from left in the second back row.

Class portrait of the students of the German Community School, South Brisbane, ca. 1890s. Image No: 10122

Gentlemen seated around tables outside the German Club (known as Deutsche Halle), Toowoomba, ca. 1896. Image No: 168484

German family outside a farm building in the Bethania area, Queensland, ca. 1871, William Boag. Image No. 20265

Wedding guests and bridal party at a German wedding, Ropeley, ca. 1905. Image No: 96063

Hay wagon towing a Model T Ford at Stonehouse, ca. 1914. Image No. 116428. Description from photograph: 'Grandpa Martin pauses at Stonehouse with his German Wagon, towing the remains of a T Ford from the Blackbutt Ranges.'

German Empire celebration at Enoggera, Brisbane, 25 January 1908. Image No: 39297

Advertisement for a cream separator in a German language publication, Queensland magazine, 1898. Image No: 62478

Advertisement for A. Wegener & Son, Cash Grocers, Ipswich Road, Woolloongabba, 1898. Image No: 108185

Estate map of German Station Estate, Nundah, Brisbane. Image No: 703065

New German Baptist Church at Marburg, April 1905, William Higlett. Image No: APE-064-0001-0009

Twin cupolas decorate the German Club in Woolloongabba, Brisbane, 1907, Image No: 48347. Signage on the front of the German Club in Vulture Street reads 'Brisbane Deutcher Turn Verein AD 1890'.

Sketch of the German Mission Station at Nundah, Brisbane, 1846, Carl Friedrich Gerler. Image No: 67294