Klemzig (34°52′29″S 138°38′08″E / -34.874665°N 138.635445°E / -34.874665; 138.635445 (Klemzig)) is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is the location of the first settlement of German emigrants to Australia in the 19th century and is named after a village near the city of Zuellichau in southeastern Brandenburg in the German state of Prussia, where they originated from. The village of Klemzig is today located in west...
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Klemzig (34°52′29″S 138°38′08″E / -34.874665°N 138.635445°E / -34.874665; 138.635445 (Klemzig)) is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. It is the location of the first settlement of German emigrants to Australia in the 19th century and is named after a village near the city of Zuellichau in southeastern Brandenburg in the German state of Prussia, where they originated from. The village of Klemzig is today located in western Poland and is now known by the Polish name Klępsk.
The initial establishment of Klemzig as an Old Lutheran settlement in the South Australian Colony is attributed to a decision by Pastor August Ludwig Christian Kavel. Pastor Kavel was determined to help his loyal parishioners emigrate from Brandenburg, Posen and Silesia to escape religious persecution by King Friedrich Wilhelm III of Prussia.
Pastor Kavel initially planned to move his parishioners to Russia near the Black Sea, where there were already numerous German settlements, but that...
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