Lutheran Settlement in the Barossa Valley.
After temporary settlement near Adelaide, many moved to the Barossa Valley, forming small village groups - the first being a party of 28 families from Silesia who founded the village of Bethany in 1842. (This is my heritage).
Bethany - the cradle of German settlement in the Barossa Valley, was originally named Neuschlesien or New Sielesia by the families who moved there in 1842 to start a life free from oppression.
The tiny cottage Landhaus which was built in 1840's to house the community herdsman, Friedich Kockrich. Dressed in sheepskin cape and flourishing a horn, Kockrich used to collect the sheep and cattle, belonging to individual villagers, and take them to graze in the hills nearby, returning
them to their owners at dusk. Each animal knew its home paddock and entered it without coercion.
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