-----Original Message----- From: Chris Sichter [mailto:csichter@bigpond.net.au] Sent: Tuesday, 24 September 2002 6:11 AM To: AUS-QLD-SE-Germans-L@rootsweb.com Subject: {not a subscriber} German Station Hello All, Just a bit more on German Station. >From "Under The Southern Cross" History of the Lutheran Church in Australia by A.Brauer 1956. "The Lutheran Church was not established in Queensland till the year 1856, when the first congregation was organised at Zions Hill (October 28)." "The Gossner Missionaries" "The group of missionaries and mission helpers that arrived in Moreton Bay in March 1838, were called Gossner missionaries because they were gathered or trained by the well known Pastor Gossner, who established his missionary training seminary in Berlin." "The Gossner mission party, consisting of three missionaries, C.Eipper, C W Schmidt and M Schneider (who died at the quarantine station in sydney) and ten missionary helpers, sailed from Greenock in Scotland on September 13, 1837 and arrived at Brisbane on March 30, 1838" "The first Pastor registered in Queenslandas a Lutheran Clergyman by the Regsitrar General was C F A Schirmeister, who organised the well known Andreas Congregation in Brisbane (Wickham Tce Brisbane) and from 1858 to 1861 he was the only one." "We must add however, that at least one of the Gossner mission helpers, Leopold Zillmann, is mentioned not many yaers later as an exceptionally active member of the Lutheran Church in Brisbane" "Although Lutherans were to be found in different parts of the state at an earlier date, it seems that no congregation was organised before 1856. This was the congregation at Zions Hill about seven miles north of Brisbane near the present day Nundah; but it appears to have only been a short lease of life. The Saint Andreas (Saint Andrews) congregation, however, organised in 1858 in Brisbane by Pastor Schirmeister, still exists. In 1860 a congregation was formed at Ipswich"