Steinfeld, South Australia
| Steinfeld South Australia | |||||||||||||
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 St Stephen's Lutheran Church, Steinfeld | |||||||||||||
  Steinfeld | |||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 34°20′50″S 139°18′07″E / 34.34728°S 139.301960°ECoordinates: 34°20′50″S 139°18′07″E / 34.34728°S 139.301960°E | ||||||||||||
| Postcode(s) | 5356 | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Mid Murray Council and Regional Council of Goyder | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Stuart | ||||||||||||
| Federal Division(s) | Barker | ||||||||||||
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Steinfeld (formerly Stonefield) is a locality in South Australia on the plains east of the Mount Lofty Ranges, and north of the Sturt Highway. The village of Steinfeld was established in the 19th century. It was renamed to Stonefield in 1918 as many places with German or German-sounding names were changed around World War 1. The name reverted to Steinfeld in 1986.[1]
The Steinfeld Lutheran congregation was established in 1882, and met in a home until it built its own building in 1890.[2] The congregation still meets in this building.[3]
In 1945, it was reported that the Automobile Association had erected signs on the Blanchetown–Truro road (now the Sturt Highway) indicating that one of the nearest public telephones was at Stonefield.[4]
The main part of the bounded locality now known as Steinfeld, including the original village, is in the Mid Murray Council. The northwestern corner of the locality is in the Regional Council of Goyder. That corner is also in the federal Division of Grey, rather than the Division of Barker like the rest of the locality.
The Barossa Valley Gliding Club and Adelaide University Gliding club share an airfield at Steinfeld.
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- ↑ "Placename Details: Steinfeld". Property Location Browser. 9 August 2006. SA0063130. Retrieved 3 March 2015.
- ↑ Edwin A. Krollig. Krollig Family History 1844-1977. 205 Halifax Street, Adelaide, SA, 78-1: Lutheran Publishing House. p. 79. ISBN 0 9595860 0 8.
- ↑ "St Stephen's Lutheran Church Stonefield". Lutheran Church Of Australia. Retrieved 19 February 2016.
- ↑ "Advertising". Leader. 27, (1406). South Australia. 15 November 1945. p. 3. Retrieved 10 October 2016 – via National Library of Australia.