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'''Hahndorf''' is a small town in the Adelaide Hills region of South Australia. Currently an important tourism spot, it has previously been a centre for farming and services.
==History== The town was settled "on the traditional land of the Peramangk people"<ref name="htp18" />{{rp|p=9}} by Lutheran migrants largely from and around a small village then named Kay in Prussia and now known as Kije, Lubusz Voivodeship in Poland. The traditional name of the site on which Hahndorf is situated is {{lang |aus |Bukartilla}}, in "reference to the local water holes".<ref name="htp18" />{{rp|p=9}} Many of the settlers arrived aboard {{ship||Zebra|ship|2}} on 28 December 1838. The town is named after Dirk Meinerts Hahn, the captain of ''Zebra''. It is Australia's oldest surviving German settlement.<ref name="htp18">{{cite report |author=Mount Barker District Council |author-link=District Council of Mount Barker |year=2018 |title=Hahndorf Township Plan |url=https://www.mountbarker.sa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0019/116803/ENDORSED-5-March-2018-Final-Hahndorf-Township-Plan.pdf |publisher=Mount Barker District Council |access-date=2025-12-31 }}</ref>{{rp|p=10}}
===Early German settlers=== During the British colonisation of South Australia, the settlers were mostly British, but some German "Old Lutherans" also emigrated in the early years. The first large group of Germans arrived in 1838, with the financial assistance of the Emigration Fund.{{explain |date=February 2025}} Most moved out of Adelaide and to the Barossa Valley and settlements in the Hills such as Hahndorf, living in socially closed communities, by 1842, and did not participate in government until 15 years later.<ref>{{cite web|website=Adelaidia|title=Germans|url=http://adelaidia.sa.gov.au/subjects/germans|first=Ian|last=Harmstorf|others="First published in ''The Wakefield companion to South Australian history'', edited by Wilfrid Prest, Kerrie Round and Carol Fort (Adelaide: Wakefield Press, 2001). Edited lightly and references updated"|date=5 June 2015|access-date=6 December 2019}}</ref>
=== German influence === German influence is apparent in Hahndorf and is seen in the traditional {{lang |de |fachwerk}} ({{gloss |timber framed}}) architecture of the original surviving buildings.<ref name="htp18" />{{rp|p=10}} There are also many restaurants in the town serving German cuisine. Protecting and enhancing heritage, and building on this German identity, is one of the guiding principles of the township plan endorsed by the District Council of Mount Barker in 2018.<ref name="htp18" />{{rp|p=12}}{{sfnp |Mount Barker District Council |2025 }}
Due to the First World War in Europe, in 1917 the South Australian Government changed many German place names. The name Hahndorf was changed to ''Ambleside'' after the nearby Ambleside railway station.<ref>{{cite book|title=Australian Place Name Stories|last=Wajnryb |first= Ruth|page=5|publisher=Lothian Books|year=2006 |isbn=0-7344-0623-1}}</ref> Hahndorf was re-instated as the town's name with the enactment of the South Australia Nomenclature Act of 1935 on 12 December 1935.<ref>Nomenclature Act, 1935</ref> There are still references to the name ''Ambleside'' in and around the town today.
==Demographics== {| class="wikitable mw-collapsible" style="float:right; clear:left; margin:10px; text-size:60%; text-align:right;" |- ! style="text-align:center;" colspan="3"| '''Hahndorf<br />population by year''' |- | 2006 || 1,806 || |- |2016 || 2,670<ref name="quckstats">{{Census 2016 AUS |url=https://quickstats.censusdata.abs.gov.au/census_services/getproduct/census/2016/quickstat/SSC40542 |name=Hahndorf (Urban Centre/Locality) |access-date=1 August 2020 |quick=on}}</ref>|| |}
At the census 2006 the population was 1,806. In 2016 the population was 2,670.
== Government == Located in the federal division of Mayo, the state electoral district of Heysen,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ecsa.sa.gov.au/electoral-districts/electoral-district-profiles/heysen |title=Heysen |work=2022-2026 electoral district map |publisher=Electoral Commission of South Australia |access-date=18 August 2022}}</ref> and the local government areas of the District Council of Mount Barker<ref name="LMV"/> and the Adelaide Hills Council.<ref name="LMV"/>
== Churches == <!-- eventually make these their own sub headings or give links to new articles --> thumb|left|St Paul's Lutheran Church There are two prominent churches in Hahndorf. St Michael's is the oldest Lutheran church in Australia to still have a worshipping congregation on its original church site. It was founded in 1839. St Michael's is a member of the Lutheran Church of Australia. St Paul's was founded in 1846, as a result of a schism between Pastor Kavel and Pastor Fritzsche. This schism is closely linked to the formation of two original Lutheran synods in Australia which coexisted until their merger in 1966.
===C3 Adelaide Hills=== C3 Adelaide Hills is a church part of the C3 Church Global movement. Previously located in Nairne it moved to Hahndorf around 2007.{{cn |date=June 2015}}
==Geography== Hahndorf is accessible from Adelaide, the South Australian capital, via the South Eastern Freeway.
==Climate== Hahndorf has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate abbreviated ''Csb'' on the Köppen climate classification scale.
{{Weather box |width=auto | location = Hahndorf | metric first = yes | single line = yes | Jan high C = 28.0 | Feb high C = 28.0 | Mar high C = 25.0 | Apr high C = 21.0 | May high C = 17.0 | Jun high C = 14.0 | Jul high C = 13.0 | Aug high C = 15.0 | Sep high C = 17.0 | Oct high C = 20.0 | Nov high C = 23.0 | Dec high C = 25.0 | year high C = | Jan mean C = 20.5 | Feb mean C = 20.0 | Mar mean C = 18.0 | Apr mean C = 15.0 | May mean C = 12.0 | Jun mean C = 9.5 | Jul mean C = 9.0 | Aug mean C = 10.0 | Sep mean C = 11.5 | Oct mean C = 14.0 | Nov mean C = 17.0 | Dec mean C = 18.0 | year mean C = | Jan low C = 13.0 | Feb low C = 12.0 | Mar low C = 11.0 | Apr low C = 9.0 | May low C = 7.0 | Jun low C = 5.0 | Jul low C = 5.0 | Aug low C = 5.0 | Sep low C = 6.0 | Oct low C = 8.0 | Nov low C = 9.0 | Dec low C = 11.0 | year low C = | rain colour = green | Jan rain mm = 24.2 | Feb rain mm = 21.8 | Mar rain mm = 30.4 | Apr rain mm = 54.2 | May rain mm = 73.0 | Jun rain mm = 89.5 | Jul rain mm = 108.5 | Aug rain mm = 101.6 | Sep rain mm = 82.5 | Oct rain mm = 55.8 | Nov rain mm = 33.6 | Dec rain mm = 38.6 | year rain mm = | Jan rain days = 3 | Feb rain days = 2 | Mar rain days = 4 | Apr rain days = 6 | May rain days = 9 | Jun rain days = 11 | Jul rain days = 12 | Aug rain days = 13 | Sep rain days = 10 | Oct rain days = 7 | Nov rain days = 5 | Dec rain days = 5 | year rain days = | source = NOAA.<ref name="ABOM">{{cite web |url=https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov |title=National Centers for Environmental Information |access-date=7 September 2020}}</ref> }}
==Sports== Hahndorf's sporting clubs including basketball, bowls, netball, cricket, football (Australian rules and Association Football), tennis and softball. The football (both codes), netball and softball clubs are nicknamed ''the Magpies''.
The Hahndorf Bowling Club was established in 1976 and has a full size (nine rink) green, which is a woven carpet surface enabling all weather competition, and a large clubhouse.
The football (soccer) club was formed in the early 1980s and plays home games at Pine Avenue. The senior men compete in the South Australian Amateur Soccer League. They won the 1996 Newsfront Cup and the 2004 Amateur League Division Two title. However, a gradual decline in player numbers from 2013 has seen the side drop to one team, competing in Division Seven, by 2019.
Hahndorf was the start point of the 2024 Women's Tour Down Under.{{Citation needed|date=February 2024}}
==Notable residents== *Watercolour artist Hans Heysen established "The Cedars" close to the town in 1912. He lived and painted there until his death in 1968. "The Cedars" remains in his family, and is open for guided tours.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hansheysen.com.au/tours.html |access-date=13 June 2016 |title=Heysen - The Cedars |archive-date=3 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303055330/http://hansheysen.com.au/tours.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> *Matthew Jaensch was an AFL footballer who played for the Adelaide Crows. He retired in 2016 after six years and 74 games with the Crows.
==Gallery== {{gallery |align=center
|File:150th anniversary.JPG |150th anniversary memorial
|File:GERMAN ARMS HOTEL - HAHNDORF.jpg |German Arms Hotel
|File:HAHNDORF ACADEMY.jpg |Hahndorf Academy
|File:HAHNDORF INN.jpg |Hahndorf Inn
|File:ST. MICHAEL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH - HAHNDORF.jpg |St Michael's Lutheran Church
|File:Hahndorf drive - Gn 241124.webm |Drive along Hahndorf's main street }}
==See also== * German Australian * Danish Australian * Polish Australian
==References== {{Reflist |30em}}
==Sources== {{Refbegin |30em |indent=yes}} *{{cite web |author=Mount Barker District Council |author-link=District Council of Mount Barker |date=2025-12-02 |title=Township Plan |url=https://www.mountbarker.sa.gov.au/discover/exploremap/hahndorf/info/hahndorfplan |publisher=Mount Barker District Council |access-date=2025-12-31 }} {{Refend}}
==External links== * [http://www.exploringaustralia.com.au/showplace.php?s=adel&p=92 Tourist Information on Hahndorf] * [http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/hahndorf.htm Flinders Ranges Research – Hahndorf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200406173312/http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/hahndorf.htm |date=6 April 2020 }} * [http://www.adhills.com.au/tourism/towns/hahndorf/ Adhills – Hahndorf, South Australia] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160810220503/http://germanaustralia.com/e/zebra-pass.htm Captain Hahn's narrative of the voyage] * [http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/ SA Government State Heritage Areas] * [http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/heritage/shas/sha_hahndorf.html State Heritage Area – Hahndorf] * {{LocalWiki|adelaide-hills|Hahndorf_-_Emigration|Hahndorf - Emigration}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20160904102059/http://hahndorfsa.org.au/history.html The History of Hahndorf]
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