Bethel, South Australia
Bethel South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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Bethel Lutheran Church in 2015 | |||||||||||||||
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Coordinates | 34°19′40″S 138°50′15″E / 34.327840°S 138.837630°ECoordinates: 34°19′40″S 138°50′15″E / 34.327840°S 138.837630°E | ||||||||||||||
Postcode(s) | 5373 | ||||||||||||||
Location | 9 km (6 mi) W of Kapunda | ||||||||||||||
LGA(s) | Light Regional Council | ||||||||||||||
State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||||||||
Federal Division(s) | Wakefield | ||||||||||||||
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Bethel is a locality and former settlement in South Australia, west of Kapunda. Its name is derived from the German word for Place of God.[1]
Bethel was settled by German-speaking people in around 1854 seeking to establish a Moravian Brethren community. From 1856 there was also a group of people of Wendish origin. They also spoke German.[2] Some of these settlers initially worshipped with the Moravians, however a new church was built named Steinthal and many worshipped there instead. The Bethel congregation severed its links with the Moravians and called a Lutheran pastor in the 1890s. The Steinthal church closed and combined in 1906.[3] The school was closed by the state government in 1917 along with many others that taught in German.[4]
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- ↑ "Placename Report - Bethel". Property Location Browser. Department of Planning, Transport and Infrastructure. 13 October 2009. SA0006079. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ "First Missions-Bethel, South Australia". Telling The Truth. Retrieved 7 February 2015.
- ↑ P.H.Colliver (1983). Freedom Found, A History of the Altus Family in Australia. LPH. Adelaide. pp. 40–41. ISBN 0 9592754 0 1.
- ↑ "CLOSING GERMAN SCHOOLS". The Express And Telegraph. LIV, (16, 152). South Australia. 12 June 1917. p. 3 (SPECIAL WAR EDITION). Retrieved 22 July 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
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