Krondorf is a locality in the
Barossa Valley in
South Australia
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. The name of the village is derived from the German for ''Crown's village''.
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'')
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
The governor of South Australia is the representative in South Australia of the Monarch of Australia, currently King Charles III. The governor performs the same constitutional and ceremonial functions at the state level as does the governor-gene ...
and daughter of Sir
Roland Blennerhassett.
It was changed back to Krondorf in 1975.
Krondorf (or Kronsdorf) was first settled in 1847 by Germans from nearby
Bethany
Bethany ( grc-gre, Βηθανία,Murphy-O'Connor, 2008, p152/ref> Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܥܢܝܐ ''Bēṯ ʿAnyā'') or what is locally known as Al-Eizariya or al-Azariya ( ar, العيزرية, " laceof Lazarus"), is a Palestinian town in the West B ...
. The Zum Kripplein Christi Lutheran church was built in 1864 and closed in 1955. The church has been renovated by the owners of
Charles Melton Wines, a local winery, to provide bed-and-breakfast accommodation.
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Towns in South Australia
Barossa Valley