Carlsruhe is a small rural town in the Shire of Macedon Ranges between Woodend

Woodend, Victoria

Woodend is a small town in Victoria, Australia. The town is in the Shire of Macedon Ranges Local government area. It is bypassed to the east and north by the Calder Freeway and is located about halfway between Melbourne and Bendigo...

 and Kyneton

Kyneton, Victoria

Kyneton is a town on the Calder Highway in the Macedon Ranges of Victoria, Australia. The Calder Freeway bypasses Kyneton to the north and east. The town was named after the English village of Kineton, Warwickshire. The town has three main streets: Mollison Street, Piper Street and High Street...

, alongside the old Calder Highway

Calder Highway

Calder Highway is a Highway linking Ravenswood South in Victoria, to Mildura. North of the Victoria/New South Wales border, the highway continues north to Broken Hill, Tibooburra and the New South Wales/Queensland border as the Silver City Highway, under the standard national route shield as far...

, although now bypassed bypassed by the Calder Freeway

Calder Freeway

Calder Freeway is a freeway linking Melbourne to Ravenswood South in Victoria, Australia, superseding stretches of the Calder Highway. Originally just a short spur of the Tullamarine Freeway linking to the Calder Highway in Keilor in suburban Melbourne, it has been extended in phases to Ravenswood...

. It is approximately 50 minutes from both Melbourne

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

 and Bendigo. At the 2006 census

Census in Australia

The Australian census is administered once every five years by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The most recent census was conducted on 9 August 2011; the next will be conducted in 2016. Prior to the introduction of regular censuses in 1961, they had also been run in 1901, 1911, 1921, 1933,...

, Carlsruhe and the surrounding area had a population of 442.

History

Carlsruhe was initially a sheep run established in August 1837 by Charles Ebden

Charles Ebden

Charles Hotson Ebden was an Australian pastoralist and politician.Ebden was born in 1811 at the Cape of Good Hope in the Cape Colony, the son of merchant and banker John Bardwell Ebden and his wife Antoinetta...

. Carlsruhe was the first rural property north of the Port Phillip

Port Phillip

Port Phillip Port Phillip Port Phillip (also commonly referred to as Port Phillip Bay or (locally) just The Bay, is a large bay in southern Victoria, Australia; it is the location of Melbourne. Geographically, the bay covers and the shore stretches roughly . Although it is extremely shallow for...

 settlement. It was named after Karlsruhe, Germany, where Ebden received part of his education. Carlsruhe has a graveyard with many tombstones dating back to the 19th century.

A township was established in the 1850s; the post office

Post office

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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 just Carlsruhe; this office closed in March 1965.

Gallery

On a cairn in the centre of Carlsruhe	A map on display in Carlsruhe

External links

• Charles Hotson Ebden in Australian Dictionary of Biography http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:rd-ouDeOxKEJ:adbonline.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010332b.htm+%22charles+hotson+ebden%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&ie=UTF-8

• Pictures, history, maps etc.