Wengenville
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2018}}
{{Use Australian English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox Australian place
| type = suburb
| name = Wengenville
| city =
| state = qld
| image = StateLibQld 2 393245 Horse grazing near Munro's Camp, Bunya Mountains, 1929.jpg
| caption = Horse grazing near Munro's Camp, 1929
| coordinates = {{coord|-26.8275|151.6872|type:city_region:AU-QLD|display=inline,title|name=Wengenville (centre of locality)}}
| pop = 54
| pop_year = {{CensusAU|2021}}
| established =
| postcode = 4615
| area = 115.7
| timezone = AEST
| utc = +10:00
| dist1 = 44.2
| dir1 = SW
| location1 = Nanango
| dist2 = 48.2
| dir2 = SSW
| location2 = Kingaroy
| dist3 = 122
| dir3 = N
| location3 = Toowoomba
| dist4 = 223
| dir4 = NW
| location4 = Brisbane
| lga = South Burnett Region
| stategov = Nanango
| fedgov = Maranoa
| near-n = Alice Creek
| near-ne = Ellesmere
| near-e = Maidenwell
Brooklands
| near-se = Pimpimbudgee
| near-s = Pimpimbudgee
| near-sw = Bunya Mountains
| near-w = Bunya Mountains
| near-nw = Alice Creek
}}
Wengenville is a rural locality in the South Burnett Region, Queensland, Australia.{{cite QPN|46277|Wengenville|locality in South Burnett Region|access-date=29 December 2020}} In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Wengenville had a population of 54 people.
Geography
The Maidenwell Bunya Mountain Road, one of three ways to access the Bunya Mountains by road, passes through the locality from east to south.{{google maps|url=https://www.google.com.au/maps/place/Wengenville+QLD+4615/@-26.830744,151.6442482,13z/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x6b95e98a783129b7:0x400eef17f20c670!8m2!3d-26.8562797!4d151.6365384 |title=Wengenville, Queensland |access-date=29 Jul 2019}}
The terrain varies from {{Convert|410 to 800|m}} above sea level. The land use is predominantly grazing on native vegetation with a small amount of crop-growing. There is a pocket of rural residential housing in the south-east of the locality near the Bunya Mountains.{{cite web |title=Layers: Locality; Protected areas and forests; Land use; Land parcel |url=https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Queensland Globe |publisher=Queensland Government |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219175447/https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |url-status=live }}
History
The locality's name is derived from Wengen Creek, which probably comes from the Waka language (Bujiebara dialect) word wingin, which comes from the local Indigenous culture involving an old woman whose name was Winyirgan.
Wengenville was probably named at the suggestion of the daughter-in-law of sawmiller Lars Andersen when the mill was erected on the site. The Bunya Timber Mills were started in 1923 and by August 1924, employed 56 men.{{cite news |date=12 May 1923 |title=COOYAR. |volume=LXII |page=13 |newspaper=Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette |issue=113 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article253707088 |accessdate=22 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040430/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/253707088 |url-status=live }}{{cite news |date=11 August 1924 |title=MAIDENWELL DISTRICT. |volume=LXIII |page=8 |newspaper=Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette |issue=191 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article253888942 |accessdate=20 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040430/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/253888942 |url-status=live }} A mountain tramway that fed logs to the mill had at its steepest a gradient of 1 in 1.5.{{cite news |date=1 March 1926 |title=MAIDENWELL DISTRICT. |volume=LXV |page=8 |newspaper=Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette |issue=51 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article253852997 |accessdate=20 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040430/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/253852997 |url-status=live }}{{Cite web |last=Kerr |first=John |date=January 1998 |title=Inventory of Sawmills and Tramways |url=https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/sitecollectiondocuments/rfa/regions/qld-south-east/cultural-heriatage/forest-industry-places/pdf/qld_se_saw7.pdf |website=Queensland Government |pages=187, 188 |access-date=22 August 2023 |archive-date=15 May 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210515163052/https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/sitecollectiondocuments/rfa/regions/qld-south-east/cultural-heriatage/forest-industry-places/pdf/qld_se_saw7.pdf |url-status=live }} The descent was accomplished by a winder known as a gravitation plant.{{cite news |date=27 March 1926 |title=IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS. |page=11 |newspaper=The Queenslander |issue=5997 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article22752946 |accessdate=21 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040431/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/22752946 |url-status=live }}
A postal receiving office was opened at the Bunya Cash Store in August 1929, and then Wengenville was the name given to the post office at Bunya Mills in November 1929.{{cite news |date=15 August 1929 |title=DISTRICT NEWS. |volume=LXVIII |page=8 |newspaper=Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette |issue=194 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article254093528 |accessdate=21 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040430/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/254093528 |url-status=live }} Henceforth all mail sent to that part of the district was to be addressed "Wengenville, via Maidenwell."{{cite news |date=2 December 1929 |title=DISTRICT NEWS. |volume=LXVIII |page=8 |newspaper=Toowoomba Chronicle and Darling Downs Gazette |issue=188 |location=Queensland, Australia |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article254102469 |accessdate=20 August 2023 |via=National Library of Australia |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040431/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/254102469 |url-status=live }}
The mill closed in 1961 and shortly afterwards the township was abandoned .{{Cite web |last=Berry |first=Julie |date=2022-06-20 |title=Where’s Wengenville? |url=https://burnetttoday.com.au/news/2022/06/20/wheres-wengenville/ |access-date=2023-08-21 |website=Burnett Today |language=en-US |archive-date=21 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230821094154/https://burnetttoday.com.au/news/2022/06/20/wheres-wengenville/ |url-status=live }}
Maidenwell Provisional School opened in April 1926. In 1934, a new school building was constructed and was opened as Wengenville State School. It closed in 1961.{{Citation|author1=Queensland Family History Society|title=Queensland schools past and present|publication-date=2010|edition=Version 1.01|publisher=Queensland Family History Society|isbn=978-1-921171-26-0}} It was at 3 Wengen Creek Road (eastern corner of Maidenwell Bunya Mountains Road, {{Coord|-26.83813|151.69908|type:edu_region:AU-QLD|name=Wengenville State School (former)}}).{{Cite web |date=1951 |title=Queensland Two Mile series sheet 2m78 |url=https://apps.information.qld.gov.au/data/v2/HistoricalMaps/StaticMap/cadastral/cad-map-2mile-qld-2m78-roads-1951/original |access-date=15 December 2023 |publisher=Queensland Government |type=Map |archive-date=15 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215040434/https://apps.information.qld.gov.au/data/v2/HistoricalMaps/StaticMap/cadastral/cad-map-2mile-qld-2m78-roads-1951/original |url-status=live }}{{Queensland Globe|access-date=15 December 2023}}
Demographics
In the {{CensusAU|2016}}, Wengenville had a population of 46 people.{{Census 2016 AUS|id=SSC33059|name=Wengenville (SSC)|access-date=20 October 2018|quick=on}}
In the {{CensusAU|2021}}, Wengenville had a population of 54 people.{{Census 2021 AUS|id=SAL33029|name=Wengenville (SAL)|access-date=28 February 2023|quick=on}}
Education
There are no schools in Wengenville. The nearest government primary schools are Tanduringie State School in neighbouring Pimpimbudgee to the south-east and Kumbia State School in Kumbia to the north.{{cite web |title=Layers: Locality; Schools and school catchments |url=https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |access-date=31 March 2024 |website=Queensland Globe |publisher=Queensland Government |archive-date=19 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171219175447/https://qldglobe.information.qld.gov.au/ |url-status=live }} The nearest government secondary schools are:
See also
References
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Further reading
{{commons category|Wengenville, Queensland}}
- {{Citation |author1= |title=Wengenville : the little timber town in the foothills of the Bunya Mountains : gone but not forgotten |publication-date=2015 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/200331250 |access-date= |publisher=Bunya Mountains Natural History Association Inc}}
- {{Citation |author1= |title=In the shade of the bunyas : a history of the Maidenwell- Wengenville district, 1882-1982 |publication-date=1982 |publisher=Maidenwell Centenary Committee |isbn=978-0-9592989-0-1}}
- {{Citation |author1=Gorton, Vicki |title=Seventy five years of education, Maidenwell & districts |publication-date=1990 |edition=1990 |publisher=Anniversary Committee, Tanduringie State School |isbn=978-0-7316-9087-9 |author2=Hinton, Glenda |author3=Tanduringie State School}} — includes Peron, Maidenwell, Tandaringie, Tureen, Wengenville, Pimpimbudgee, Tanduringie
{{South Burnett Region}}