Names
Australian Placenames of German Background
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Official placenames in Tasmania today
➽ Grindelwald - a village 16 km north-west of Launceston, on Country of the Tyerrernotepanner, the Panninher and the Leterremairrener Indigenous clans. You can read more about this place name and its origins in this article.
➽ Interlaken - a rural locality in the Southern Midlands about 30 km south-west of Ross, on Leterremairrener Country. You can read more about this place name and its origins in this article.
➽ German Town - a small locality near St Marys on the east coast, on Paredarerme Country. You can read more about this place name and its origins in this article.
➽ Mount Hartz National Park - 80 km south-west of Hobart, named after the Harz range of mountains in central Germany.
Road turn-off sign for the Mount Hartz National Park in Tasmania
Former German placenames in Tasmania
In earlier times Australia had many more German placenames, but local residents and governments have changed many names. Most of the German names in the following list were changed during the First World War. However, a couple of the placenames listed below were not changed, though they are today very small rural localities without postcodes, where the old German place name has simply dropped out of common usage. Most German immigrants in the 19th century settled in rural areas.
➽ Bismarck - now Collinsvale, a rural village about 12 km north-west of Hobart, on Nuenonne Country. You can read more about this place name and its origins in this article.
➽ German Town - now Lilydale, 26 km north-east of Launceston, on Tyerrernotepanner and Pyemmairrener Country.
➽ Heidelberg - an early locality name near Port Sorell, on Punnilerpanner Country, 16 km east of Devonport, from 1887 at the latest; name no longer used. You can read more about this place name and its origins in this article.
➽ Leipsic - a locality approximately 5km east of Royal George in the Northern Midlands, on Paredarerme Country. You can read more about this place name and its origins in this article. Leipzig is the most populous city in the German state of Saxony.