Barossa heritage highlights
Churches, homesteads and the German story of the valley
The Barossa was settled in the 1840s by Lutheran families fleeing persecution in Prussia and Silesia, and that history is written across the valley in stone churches, family estates and place names. These eight stops piece the story together.
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1
TanundaSeppeltsfield
A grand 19th-century estate and the palm-lined road that leads to it.
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2
TanundaLangmeil Lutheran Church
Old German graves and steeples at the heart of the valley's faith.
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3
Mount Pleasant
Herbig Family Tree
A hollow gum that housed a pioneering family in the valley's early days.
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4
WilliamstownWhispering Wall
The Barossa Reservoir dam wall - an acoustic marvel of 1900s engineering.
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5
TanundaChateau Tanunda
A restored 1890 bluestone chateau, one of the valley's great buildings.
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TanundaLangmeil Winery
The Freedom 1843 vineyard, planted by the valley's earliest settlers.
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7
Bethany
Herberge Christi Lutheran Church
Bethany's 1883 church, at the heart of the Barossa's first German village.
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8
AngastonAngaston Blacksmith Shop & Museum
The A&H Doddridge forge of 1873, now a volunteer museum open on weekends and public holidays, 11am to 2pm.
Drive the back roads between them and you'll see the Barossa the settlers built, still very much alive.
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Image credits
- View from Chateau Tanunda Wine Cellars(GN07772).jpg by State Government Photographer , CC0 via Wikimedia Commons