Buchfelde is now a suburb of
Gawler, South Australia
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, on the northern outskirts of
Adelaide
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in
South Australia
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.
History
A property in the area was settled in 1848 by
Dr. Richard von Schomburgk and his brother Otto, and is named after their financial benefactor
Leopold von Buch
Christian Leopold von Buch (26 April 1774 – 4 March 1853), usually cited as Leopold von Buch, was a German geologist and paleontologist born in Stolpe an der Oder (now a part of Angermünde, Brandenburg) and is remembered as one of the most im ...
who helped them flee Germany. The name was changed from Buchfelde to Loos in 1918 after
a town in France which was the site of
a battle in 1915. This was to
remove a "name of enemy origin". The name returned to Buchfelde in November 1990.
Geography
The modern boundaries of the suburb were set in June 2011 after the construction of the Northern Expressway. They are the
Gawler River on the south,
Northern Expressway
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on the west and north, and
Gawler Bypass Road on the east,
with the Two Wells Road through the middle. It contains the northern end of the
Stuart O'Grady Bikeway which runs adjacent to the Northern Expressway, and the Gawler
trotting track.
Buchfelde contains two cemeteries: the Pioneer cemetery includes the grave of Otto von Schomburgk, and the Roediger Memorial cemetery associated with the former St Paul's Lutheran Church. The St. Paul's congregation was established some time before the Lutheran chapel burned down in 1862. The replacement building was consecrated in 1863. The congregation merged into the Zion congregation in Gawler in 1927
The building was gifted to the
Methodist Church
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.
The church was later closed and has been demolished.
Climate
References
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