| Krondorf South Australia | |||||||||||||||
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 A thatched roof barn in 2006 at Krondorf, South Australia | |||||||||||||||
  Krondorf | |||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°33′39″S138°58′17″E / 34.560770°S 138.971480°E Coordinates: 34°33′39″S138°58′17″E / 34.560770°S 138.971480°E | ||||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5352 | ||||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Barossa Council | ||||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Schubert | ||||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||||
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Krondorf is a locality in the Barossa Valley in South Australia. The name of the village is derived from the German for Crown's village. [1]
The Barossa Valley is a valley in South Australia located 60 kilometres (37 mi) northeast of Adelaide city centre. The valley is formed by the North Para River. It is notable as a major wine-producing region and tourist destination.
South Australia is a state in the southern central part of Australia. It covers some of the most arid parts of the country. With a total land area of 983,482 square kilometres (379,725 sq mi), it is the fourth-largest of Australia's states and territories by area, and fifth largest by population. It has a total of 1.7 million people, and its population is the second most highly centralised in Australia, after Western Australia, with more than 77 percent of South Australians living in the capital, Adelaide, or its environs. Other population centres in the state are relatively small; Mount Gambier, the second largest centre, has a population of 28,684.
Prior to 1918, the name of the locality may have been Kronsdorf. In 1918, it was changed to Kabminye (an Australian Aboriginal word for stars) [2] when many Australian placenames were changed to sound less German. An alternate name that was proposed instead of Kabminye was Blennerhassett, in honour of Lady Galway, wife of the Governor of South Australia and daughter of Sir Roland Blennerhassett. [3] It was changed back to Krondorf in 1975. [1]
Marie Carola Franciska Roselyne Galway, Lady Galway, CBE, DStJ, née Blennerhassett, was a British charity and civic worker and advocate for women's rights. She was married to Sir Henry Galway, Governor of South Australia.
The Governor of South Australia is the representative in the Australian state of South Australia of Elizabeth II, Queen of Australia. The Governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the Governor-General of Australia at the national level. In accordance with the conventions of the Westminster system of parliamentary government, the Governor nearly always acts solely on the advice of the head of the elected government, the Premier of South Australia. Nevertheless, the Governor retains the reserve powers of the Crown, and has the right to dismiss the Premier. As from June 2014, the Queen, upon the recommendation of the Premier, accorded all current, future and living former Governors the title 'The Honourable' for life. The first six Governors oversaw the colony from proclamation in 1836 until self-government and an elected Parliament of South Australia was enacted in the year prior to the inaugural 1857 election.
Sir Rowland Blennerhassett, 4th Baronet was a Roman Catholic Anglo-Irish baronet and Liberal Party politician from County Kerry.
Krondorf (or Kronsdorf) was first settled in 1847 by Germans from nearby Bethany. The Zum Kripplein Christi Lutheran church was built in 1864 and closed in 1955. [4] The church has been renovated by the owners of Charles Melton Wines, a local winery, to provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation. [5]
Bethany is a small village about 2 km south-east of Tanunda in the Barossa Valley. It was originally named Bethanien, but was changed during World War I in an attempt to remove all German place names from Australia. Similarly, the German-language school was forced to close by the state government in 1917, with 60 students at the time.
Charles Melton Wines is an Australian winery based in Tanunda, within the Barossa Valley wine region of South Australia.
