German Place Names in South Australia
 

Current name appears in bold text


Bethanien - 1917 Bethany

Blumberg - 1917 Birdwood

Buchfelde (near Gawler) - 1917 Loos; restored

Carlsruhe - 1917 Kunden

Friedensthal - 1917 Black Hill

Friedrichstadt - 1917 Tangari

Friedrichswalde - 1917 Tarnma

Grunberg (also Gruenberg) (near Moculta)- 1917 Karialta; restored 1975

Grunthal - 1917 Verdun

Gnadenfrei - Marananga

Hahndorf - 1917 Ambleside; restored 1935

Hergott Springs - 1917 Marree

Hildesheim (near Mannum) - 1917 Punthari

Hoffnungsthal (near Lyndoch) - 1917 Kirrawarra; restored 1975

Kaiserstuhl - 1917 Mount Kitchener

Klemzig - 1917 Gaza; restored 1935

Krichauff - 1917 Mount Mary

Krondorf (also Kronsdorf) - 1917 Kabminye; restored 1975

Langmeil (near Tanunda) - 1917 Bilyara; restored 1975

Lobethal - 1917 Tweedvale; restored 1935

Neudorf (north-west of Lobethal) - 1917 Mamburdi; restored 1986

Neukirch (near Kapunda) - 1917 Dimchurch; restored 1975

New Hamburg (south of Strathalbyn) - 1917 Willyaroo

New Mecklenburg (also Neu Mecklenberg) - 1917 Gomersal

Oliventhal - 1917 Olivedale (now part of Birdwood)

Petersburg - 1917 Peterborough

Rhine Villa - 1917 Cambrai

Rosenthal - 1917 Rosedale

Schoenthal - 1917 Boongala; restored 1986

Schreiberhau (near Tanunda) - 1917 Warre; restored as Schreiberau 1975

Seppelts - 1917 Dorrien

Siegersdorf (north of Tanunda) - 1917 Bultawilta; restored 1975

Steinfeld (north-east of Truro) - 1917 Stonefield; restored 1986

Summerfeldt (south-west of Mannum) - 1917 Summerfield


Links:

Flinders Ranges Research

Adelaide Co-operative History

Australian Bureau of Statistics

Wikipedia

The Manning Index of South Australian History

Under the Nomenclature Act of 1917 many German place names in the Barossa Valley were changed.  Many were later restored.