Hahndorf Archives

28/07/2025

11/07/2025

It is with enormous sorrow and regret that we share this information. Lyndell Davidge Coordinator of the Hahndorf Academy Archival Collection, longtime champion of Hahndorfs history and preservation, and supporter of the Hahndorf Archives has shared her last perspective on the pioneers of Hahndorf. Vale, Vale, Vale dear Lyndell. Your contributions to the recognition and life of Hahndorf will continue beyond all of us. Thankyou so much.

30/06/2025

Celebrating our volunteers. With a delicious Devonshire afternoon tea at Beerenberg, on the 18th of June.

Thanks for all your hard work each and everyone of you put in. All of your efforts are very much appreciated. We also enjoy each and everyone of your company.

L- R, Neville, Lorraine, Natasha, Margaret, Janis, Sally, Carol, Lee, Fran, Janet and Christina

26/06/2025

Why would I want to read an 1851 account by Gustav Listemann?
https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Listemann_part_1
1. Because he was trying to warn his fellow Germans NOT to come to South Australia.
2. Because he arrived in 1849 on the Princess Louise some of whose other passengers became famous South Australians and were also members of the 1848 Berlin Revolution.
3. Because two carpenters named Johann Carl Friedrich Fährmann & Friedrich Gladigau were also passengers
4. Because thanks to Lothar Brasse for translating Gustav's 12 chapters into English that I have been able to reproduce the only English copy available to the public on Adelaide Hills Localwiki.
It is a fascinating read.

24/06/2025

Margaret Moseley methodically works through Reg Butlers personal research and new volunteer Lee Sinclair has taken on the hundred of microfische in Reg’s collection and thanks to a generous donation from the Fleurieu Peninsula Family History group at Christies Beach we will have a working screen for Lee to use tomorrow.

15/06/2025

Angela an Archivist at the Lutheran Archives gifted the Hahndorf Archives with a number of school books originating from Hahndorf belonging to a student in the Paech family, possibly the Darby Rd, Ravenswood connection but a bit of research will confirm the origins.

If you have items, photographs, baptismal certificates and the like regarding families from the Hahndorf area come and see how we could 1. Help you preserve them or 2. Perhaps think about donating them and make them available alongside the Reg Butler & Alan Wittwer Collections.

Receiving the books is Janis Haynes author of the https://localwiki.org/adelaide-hills/Zebra-Project and volunteer archivist at Hahndorf Archives. Photo taken in the Lutheran Archives… which is full of rich family history. Thanks to Ben Hollister.

23/05/2025

Our other volunteers: Lorraine often finds photographs that she can identify, Fran is working with Natasha & Neville to complete the library online catalogue with Tiny Cat, and Margaret came across original German school text books.

23/05/2025

The Archives has inherited hundreds of photographs which over the past few months our volunteer Christina has been putting into an order where we can now start identifying and linking the images. Natasha the Archives Coordinator is on the right.

24/03/2025

This photograph from the Reg Butler Archives possibly taken by Edmund Diederich when he was employed by 'Haehnel & Co' photographers is of a young Johanna Louise LIEBELT (daughter of Gottlieb LIEBELT & Caroline LUBASCH) who married in 1871 Johann Gottlieb KUCHEL. The background is a feature often used by the photographer and the children have been named on the reverse by Reg as being Alfred (b1879 m Henningsen), Gottlieb (b1877 m Schmeiss), Emma (b1881 m Ey), Bertha (b1872 m Collins) & Gustav (b1873 m Braendler)

18/02/2025

Our newest volunteer Neville Fishlock has begun to catalogue them!

18/02/2025

Did you know Reg Butler had a considerable collection of microfilm newspapers?

18/02/2025

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