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PAECH home off Darby Road

also known as 'Clovershed', 'Oakside', Oakside Stud' & 'Oakside Park Stud'

Courtesy Cherie HUTCHINSON, GGGG granddaughter of Johanna Karaline KLENKE 1793c-1831 the 1st wife of & Johann George PAECH Snr 1793c-1875 of Paechtown

Provenance:  

'This painting was done when my Aunty Vera & Uncle Glen sold Oakside.  A family friend saw the aerial photograph in the late 1970's and said "I can paint that", the name of the artist is now unknown.  My Mum, [Brenda Fischer], received the work when her cousin Kym FAEHRMANN passed away.  We drove to Andamooka to attended his funeral in 2014.'  Cherie Hutchinson, September 2024.

Kym FAEHRMANN is Cherie Hutchinson's 4th cousin 1 removed, [& Kym is her mother, Brenda FISHER's 4th cousin] & he is the author's 3rd cousin, but they never met.  

The Question is:

How did this property, built for the PAECH family from Rentschen, in Prussia [known in S.A. as Rentschener PAECHs & were Ship Zebra passengers] come to belong to the PAECH family from Kay in Prussia  [known in S.A. as Kaysher PAECHs also Ship Zebra passengers] & then become owned by Kym's father 'Uncle Glen' ['& his wife Aunty Vera'] who is the great grandson of master carpenter Johann Friedrich Carl FAEHRMANN [1823-1896] who possibly built the half timbered redgum structures on the barns & home of this unique farm.

Summary

The following home & barns off Darby Rd are documented using photography, measurements, drawings, genealogy, historic references & previous surveys to draw comparisons of technique & engineering that might attribute the pit sawn red gum timber structures to master carpenter Johann Carl Friedrich FAEHRMANN [1823-1896] of Tangermünde, Prussia.

Table of Contents

1. Time Line of ownership
2. Oakside Park Stud Training Facility 2024.
3. Mount Barker Heritage Survey [2004] Part 1.

Time Line

Johann Friedrich PAECH Snr [1800-1870] & Anna Dorothea KRAMM [1803-1880], were married 1825c, & arrived on the Zebra in 1838 with 2 sons,

• Johann Friedrich Wilhelm PAECH b1826, 11 years old on Zebra.
• Johann August PAECH b1828, 9 years old on Zebra
• These 2 sons married sisters who were also their 1st cousins.

​Explanation of the 1st cousin relationship.

Johann Friedrich PAECH Snr b1800 was the 4th of 13 children of 

• Johann Gottfried PÄCH [1765c-1845] & Anna Rosine LANGER [1774c-1871] who arrived on the Heerjeebhoy Rustomjee Patel in 1845.

PÄCH & LANGER's  7th child was Johann Gottlieb PÄCH [1804-1891] married 1829 to Dorothea Elisabeth BARTEL [1805-1883]

• This couple had 2 daughters who married the above PAECH brothers.
• 2nd child Johanne Luise [1830-1916] & her sister, their 3rd child Maria Elisabeth [1833-1924]

Photographs by Lothar BRASSE

Friedrich Benjamin BRAENDLER 

Courtesy Cherie HUTCHINSON.

Courtesy Cherie HUTCHINSONThis article describes 'F.B. BRAENDLER of Oakside Stud' as being the most famous in the area of Hahndorf for his involvement with Clydesdales.

'Mr BRAENDLER started breeding in 1939, his foundation stock being mares & a stallion purchased from breeders on Yorke Peninsula.  His horses were sold across South Australia & Broken Hill, his main customers being Councils, presumably buying heavy horses to work their tip drays.  

Mr BRANDLER was a keen exhibitor of his horses & would also combine teams with other exhibitors to make an impressive display at the shows.  In 1960, he showed for the last time at the Royal Adelaide Show & it was believed to be the final chapter for the Clydestale, until 1975, when they returned to the show ring, but this time from Rutherglen Clydesdale Stud'

Photos from the Cherie HUTCHINSON Collection

Courtesy Cherie HUTCHINSONFriedrich Benjaman BRAENDLER married Ottilie Hulda known as 'Tilly' LIEBELT on 22 May 1913 at St Michael's Church, Hahndorf.

To see other wedding photos.

Courtesy Cherie HUTCHINSONVera on the left married Sydney Glen FAEHRMANN [1912-1993] in May 1839 & they had 1 child, Kym Grantley FAEHRMANN [1948-2014].

Vida married James Harold FISHER [1924] & had 3 children one of whom, Brenda, is Cherie HUTCHINSON's mother.

'F.B. BRAENDLER of Oakside Stud' refers to Friedrich Benjamin BRAENDLER 

• born 20 September 1887
• married 22 May 1913, St Michael's Church Hahndorf
• to Ottilie Hulda 'Tilly' LIEBELT
  • born 1893ca
  • died 1974
• died 1962
• Cherie HUTCHINSON is the ggranddaughter of this couple.

Ottilie Hulda LIEBELT & F.B. BRAENDLER had 2 daughters Vera b1915 & Vida b1922.

'Oakside Park Stud is a 113 acre horse agistment & training facility set in the picturesque Adelaide Hills near the township of Hahndorf. The property is owned & run by World Cup rider & 3* Eventer Anthony Thomas' www.southernsporthorses.com.au sited 7 September 2024

Mount Barker Heritage Survey (2004) ~ Part 1

'Oakside Park Stud, fr Paech house, stable & barn Place no.: 428

Address Darby Rd / Liebelt Summer Track, Friedrichstadt, nr Hahndorf 

ASSESSMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE

Description
House: three-level constructed with a stone coursed rubble basement and timber-framed upper walls with red-brick nogging. Features include a half-hipped cgi-covered timber-shingle roof, substantial stone buttresses to basement, symmetrical red-brick chimneys, timber-framed openings with timber doors and windows. Internal features include a loft with timber dowelled joints. [Several modifications and additions have been made to the house during the 20th century, including the addition of a front loft window]. Stable: Substantial two-level stone building with timber lintels, timber- framed openings and doors, and a steeply-pitched cgi gable roof with dormer loft window.
Barn: Substantial timber-framed structure comprising a complex roof structure and a cgi gable roof. Stone base with red-brick nogging. Some sections of the frame have stone infill, with most being clad by cgi. Features include internal timber partitions and platform, timber-framed openings and timber doors. Estate entrance: Low stone walls flanking entrance with moulded stone coping to top and stone fence-posts.

Statement of Heritage Value

The Oakside Park Stud is one of the best-preserved pioneer German farm complexes in the Hahndorf area, has intimate connections with the neighbouring JF Paech property, and reveals important information about the early way of life and farming practices of the early German settlers, and displays several rare and outstanding types of design and construction.

Relevant Criteria

1. (a)  it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history, being one of the best-preserved pioneer German farm complexes in the Hahndorf area with important associations with the early foundation of Friedrichstadt, and revealing important information about the early way of life and farming practices of the early German settlers.

2. (b)  it has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of cultural significance, displaying uncommon examples of half-timbered construction, an exceptionally large timber-framed barn, shingle roofing, and farm buildings with built-in accommodation.

1. (d)  it is an outstanding representative of a particular class of places of cultural significance, being an outstanding pioneering German farm complex with a particularly fine barn interior.

2. (e)  it demonstrates a high degree of creative, aesthetic or technical accomplishment or is an outstanding representative of particular construction techniques or design characteristics, particularly half-timbering, large-scale timber-framing, three-level house design and use of timber-shingle roofing.

RECOMMENDATION

This place is recommended for inclusion in the State Heritage Register.

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Anna Pope ~ Heritage Online 1

Mount Barker Heritage Survey (2004) ~ Part 1

Oakside Park Stud, fr Paech house, stable & barn Place no.: 428 ASSESSMENT OF HERITAGE VALUE

Criterion (a) it demonstrates important aspects of the evolution or pattern of the State's history.

Friedrichstadt was established by JF Paech in 1846 as a farming settlement off-shoot of Hahndorf. He first established his own house and farm buildings, then in c1848, he and his son constructed a second house and set of farm buildings on part of his land adjacent to his first house. This property was previously called Clovershed and is now Oakside. The first building constructed at this early farm appears to have been the substantial timber-framed barn with red-brick nogging.  Similar to the smaller Schneemilch barn at 23 Victoria Street Hahndorf, this barn includes a platform which may have been used as an early residential part of the barn, and was subsequently used for threshing and bagging. The stone stable also includes a small residential section, which may also have been lived in by members of the family until the large new three-level house was completed. The house was constructed to a similar design to several other examples in Paechtown and the Hahndorf area, using half-timbering with red-brick nogging with stone cellar beneath and loft above. The whole farm complex is a significant survival from the mid-19th-century German pioneers and provides insight into the way of life and development of farming of the earliest German settlers.

Criterion (b) it has rare, uncommon or endangered qualities that are of cultural significance.

There are several features of this farm complex which are now relatively uncommon. These include the house’s timber-shingle roof & pegged joinery; and the use of half-timbered frames with red-brick infill for the house and barn.

Criterion (d) it is an outstanding representative of a particular class of places of cultural significance.

The barn in particular is an outstanding example of a substantial timber-framed barn including some stone infill, and the use of timber partitions and platforms. The early timber and brick house is also an outstanding example of a half-timbered wall structure with red-brick nogging. Together with the substantial stone stable with built in ostler’s quarters, the whole is a pioneer German farm complex of outstanding significance.

Criterion (e) it demonstrates a high degree of creative, aesthetic or technical accomplishment or is an outstanding representative of particular construction techniques or design characteristics.

The timber-framed barn with former residential section is of particular structural interest, being an exceptional example of a substantial timber-framed barn. Parts of the barn also have stone infill, with most merely being clad with cgi. The house and half-timbered & brick barn also display significant pioneering German techniques, especially the use of half-timbering with red-brick infill. In addition, the house displays a typical and significant local house design with its three levels including loft and stone basement and two symmetrical chimneys, and also includes an original timber-shingle roof and pegged joinery within the loft.

Anna Pope ~ Heritage Online 2

Mount Barker Heritage Survey (2004) ~ Part 1

Oakside Park Stud, fr Paech house, stable & barn Place no.: 428 REFERENCES

•   Australian Heritage Commission, Register of the National Estate, Report no. 7558.

•   Butler, Reg 1989, A College in the Wattles: Hahndorf & its Academy.

•   Berry, D W & S H Gilbert 1981, Pioneer Building Techniques in South Australia.

•   Faull, Jim & Gordon Young, 1986, People Places & Buildings, pp 89-98.

•   Historical Research: Anni Luur Fox & Reg Butler.

•   Schubert, David 1985, Kavel’s People, from Prussia to South Australia.

•   Schubert, J C 1964, Lutheran Pioneers in Australia, the emigration, landing and establishment.

•   Whimpress, Jack 1975, Echunga 1839–1939.

•   Veenstra, Paul c1995, Mount Barker District Heritage Survey [Report files], Item 1/02

•   Young, G et al 1981, Hahndorf Volumes 1 & 2.

  Oakside Park Stud, fr Paech house, 2004