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Carlsruhe, Victoria

Field	Value
name	Carlsruhe
state	vic
image	CarlsruheRiverLodge.JPG
caption	"River Lodge" at Carlsruhe, 2009
use_lga_map	yes
coordinates
pushpin_label_position	right
lga	Shire of Macedon Ranges
postcode	3442
pop	456
pop_year
pop_footnotes
elevation	526
stategov	Macedon
fedgov	Bendigo, McEwen
dist1	80
dir1	NW
location1	Melbourne
dist2	74
dir2	S
location2	Bendigo
dist3	11
dir3	NW
location3	Woodend
dist4	6
dir4	SE
location4	Kyneton
near-nw	Kyneton
near-n	Kyneton
near-ne	Benloch
near-w	Kyneton
near-e	Newham
near-sw	Lauriston
near-s	Woodend North
near-se	Newham

Carlsruhe () is a town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges between Woodend and Kyneton, alongside the old Calder Highway, although now bypassed by the Calder Freeway. It is approximately 50 minutes by road from both Melbourne and Bendigo. At the , Carlsruhe and the surrounding area had a population of 456.

History

Charles Ebden became the first European to settle in Carlsruhe whan he established himself at Sugarloaf Creek, Victoria on about 14 March 1837. He named the location after Karlsruhe, Germany, where he had received part of his education. Carlsruhe was the second inland settlement in the Port Phillip District.

Although Carlsruhe is named after the German city, the Australian pronunciation of the name is very different from its German counterpart because, in German, the final "e" is pronounced separately whereas, in English, the "e" it is silent. The German pronunciation is "Carls-ruh-e".

Carlsruhe has a graveyard with many tombstones dating back to the 19th century.

A township was established in the 1850s. The post office opened on 1 September 1854, closed after a few months and reopened in 1858. After the railway arrived in 1862, Carlsruhe Railway Station post office opened some distance away, in October 1865. The original Carlsruhe post office closed in 1957. In July 1958, the name of the Railway Station post office was changed to Carlsruhe. It closed in March 1965.

Gallery

Plaque on a cairn in the centre of Carlsruhe	Map on display in Carlsruhe

References

{{Census 2011 AUS
Williams, Martin, ''Charles Bonney and the fertile Kilmore Plains'', Victorian Historical Journal, Volume 90, No. 1, June 2019, p. 107
Walker, Thomas, ''A Month in the Bush of Australia'', J. Cross, London, 1838, p. 34
Phoenix Auctions History. "Post Office List".

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