Hahndorf Archives

31/08/2026

Did you catch out first article in the Hahndorf Village Voice?

31/08/2026

Help... can you identify the house in the middle? The left and right ones are identical, they are all early Prussian farm houses...the chimney is the giveaway....

30/08/2026

Wondering what the volunteers at the Hahndorf Archives are busy doing?

Lorraine KRAMM identifies the Hahndorf locals in the photographs Margaret MOSELY & Janet HILL surrounded by archival material in the GETHING Room. Christine MOORE & Natasha PAECh with the albums in reiteration number one.

16/08/2026

In 2007 someone related to the Liebelts, Kuchel's or Faehrmanns donated this unique hand coloured photograph of the original house at 106 Main St, Hahndorf, to the Hahndorf Academy and no note was taken of who did that. This beautiful photograph would have been hung in someone's passageway or lounge for many years. There is much to still reveal about this work that was preserved by Art Lab in Adelaide in 2020. CAN YOU HELP?

09/07/2026

Kirsty Girvan's page

09/07/2026

The Hahndorf Archives has recently been assessed through a Significance Assessment by Kevin Jones Consultant Consultant - Museums, Audiences, Heritage, Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres & as a result we've confirmed our understanding that one of the best gifts Reg Butler has given our local community is his photographic collection. Volunteers have been ordering & preserving hundred of his photographs for the past 2 years and now it is time to upload them to our catalogue system eHive.
https://ehive.com/collections/207429/hahndorf-history-heritage-association-of-the-hahndorf

More volunteers are always welcome.
Below I've chose the SEIDEL sisters wedding photographs, they married Carl Ferdinand ALTMANN.

The ALTMANN / BAUMANN family arrived on the George Washington in 1844 and their 8 children married into the REIMANN, LIEBELT, FIEDLER, SCHIRMER, SCHILLING, HENSCHKE & KRUSCHEL families. The ALTMANN / LIEBELT family produced 9 more children including Carl Ferdinand ALTMANN (1864-1939) who married Bertha Wilhelmine SEIDEL (1869-1902) in 1894 & her sister Lydia Amelia SEIDEL (1867-1948) in 1903. The sisters both born in SA had 3 children each. Their parents Johann Carl Heinrich SEIDEL & Johanna Rosina KÖNIG also came to SA on the George Washington. It is not surprising that Reg kept these wedding photos as he wrote the SEIDEL family history book in 1976 & both of these wedding photographs are on page 106 & 108.

All descendants of the 52 founding Prussian families of Hahndorf can join a new page by Kristy Girvan 'Hahndorf Community Chat.

26/05/2026

Tomorrow is the last of our History Month presentations, many thanks to the Hahndorf Academy who loaned some precious display items, and for all who came and gave constructive feedback.

01/05/2026

The Hahndorf Archive volunteers aren't at a desk every day! We are on a mission to document many of the old Prussian homes & buildings around Hahndorf. Thanks to Heather Petty (attention to minute detail as you see here) & the property owners this is No 3. Built around 1856 the red gum 6" by 6" timber work in the roof space, is substantial & almost certainly built by Carl FÄHRMANN. We were there all day this week and still the project is incomplete. A 'photographers dream' says Heather. This farm belonged to the family of Anna Dorothea KRAMM & Johann Friedrich PAECH from Rentschener in Prussia, both passengers on the Zebra.

27/04/2026

Sunday Funday! 🤣😂
When your ancestors are hard to find....