Lake Boga mission
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Lake Boga Mission station was established on the south-eastern shores of Lake Boga
, Victoria
, Australia
in 1851 by the Moravian Church on the land of the Wemba-Wemba
. The mission was established by Reverend Andreas Friedrich Christian Täger and Reverend Friedrich Wilhelm Spieseke. The missionaries hoped to establish gardens, keep livestock and open a school to attract and convert to christianity and 'civilise' the local aboriginal people on their 640 acre grant of land.
Difficulties were experienced in attracting Wemba-Wemba people to the mission - no converts were ever made - and there were also issues with a dispute over a fence and the area given to the missionaries, hostility from local landholders, problems with local authorities, and with gold diggers traversing the property. The mission closed on 1 July 1856. Täger and Spieseke left the site and Australia returning to London, without permission from headquarters, and thus in disgrace.
Spieseke and another missionary, the Rev. Friedrich August Hagenauer, were subsequently sent by the Moravian Church and established Ebenezer Mission
at Lake Hindmarsh in 1859.
Lake Boga, Victoria
Lake Boga is a town in Victoria, Australia. It is situated within the Rural City of Swan Hill within the Mallee region of north-west Victoria. At the 2006 census, Lake Boga had a population of 725...
, Victoria
Victoria (Australia)
Victoria is the second most populous state in Australia. Geographically the smallest mainland state, Victoria is bordered by New South Wales, South Australia, and Tasmania on Boundary Islet to the north, west and south respectively....
, Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
in 1851 by the Moravian Church on the land of the Wemba-Wemba
Wemba-Wemba
The Wemba-Wemba are an Indigenous Australian group in north-Western Victoria and south-western New South Wales, Australia, including in the Mallee and the Riverina regions. They are also known as the Wamba-wamba....
. The mission was established by Reverend Andreas Friedrich Christian Täger and Reverend Friedrich Wilhelm Spieseke. The missionaries hoped to establish gardens, keep livestock and open a school to attract and convert to christianity and 'civilise' the local aboriginal people on their 640 acre grant of land.
Difficulties were experienced in attracting Wemba-Wemba people to the mission - no converts were ever made - and there were also issues with a dispute over a fence and the area given to the missionaries, hostility from local landholders, problems with local authorities, and with gold diggers traversing the property. The mission closed on 1 July 1856. Täger and Spieseke left the site and Australia returning to London, without permission from headquarters, and thus in disgrace.
Spieseke and another missionary, the Rev. Friedrich August Hagenauer, were subsequently sent by the Moravian Church and established Ebenezer Mission
Ebenezer Mission
Ebenezer Mission station was established near Lake Hindmarsh, Victoria, Australia in 1859 by the Moravian Church on the land of the Wotjobaluk. The first missionaries were two Germans, Reverend Friedrich Hagenauer and Reverend F.W. Spieseke. In 1861 the Victorian Colonial Government gazetted as a...
at Lake Hindmarsh in 1859.