The International Settlers' Group celebrates the 1859 Hamburg Ships

Report on Dinner

The 150th Anniversary of the arrival of the 1859 Hamburg Ships to Melbourne was celebrated at a Dinner held on Friday 16 October at 12 noon at th...

During the LCA Convention from Friday 2 to Monday 5 October 2009 held at Luther College, Croydon, Victoria, the Wendish Heritage Society displayed Wendish books and posters, items of traditional Wendish national dress, and a powerpoint display for Co...

100th Anniversary Celebrations at "Trinity" Warrayure (a farming community between Hamilton and Dunkeld, Victoria) were held in the church, the hall and the school on 22-23 August 2009, involving about 500 people over the weekend. In some families, a...

Members and friends attended our Pleasant Sunday Afternoon (PSA) at Ivanhoe Lutheran Church at 12.30pm. It included a community lunch, our Annual General Meeting, and an illustrated talk on the Emigrants from Lower Lusatia. At our 2009 AGM we hear...

The Wendish Heritage Society's 2009 March Country Tour included, on Saturday 7 March, a visit to Tatura and to its Irrigation and Wartime Camps Museum at 49 Hogan St, Tatura. On Saturday evening, we dined, and most participants were accommodated, at ...

Les Kossatz is a Melbourne artist and sculptor and a descendant of a wendish family. His Exhibition "The Art of Existence" was on display from 22 Nov 2008 to 8 March 2009 at Heide Museum of Modern Art, 7 Templestowe Road, Bulleen. The Age Newspaper o...

On 17th and 18th November 2008, Zion Lutheran Church at Vectis celebrated the 100th anniversary of the dedication of its present church building. This church was built by H. Dinning from Beulah at a cost of 728 pounds and was dedicated by Pastor J.F....

Our Society's 2008 Dinner at the Ringwood Lutheran Hall provided the opportunity for the descendants of the passengers of the 1858 Hamburg Ships to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the arrival in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia of about ten ships, c...

Our Pleasant Sunday Afternoon on 6 April 2008 included a Community Lunch, our AGM and a talk on Nieder Weisel. We began with a community lunch at Ivanhoe Lutheran Church at 12.30 pm, followed by the Society's A.G.M. The Directory on p.8 lists the ...