Nundah Cemetery, Heritage cemetery in Nundah, Australia.
Nundah Cemetery occupies an elliptical ridge above Kedron Brook at 88 Hedley Avenue, Nundah, with its entrance facing west. Graves are crowded with no denominational segregation, and headstones range from high Victorian to modern stela. Near the front stands a hexagonal timber rotunda with arched batten infilling and a steeply pitched asbestos tile roof, renovated in the 1980s.
German Lutheran missionaries established this cemetery in 1846 as a marker of Queensland's first free settlement. The site represents an important location in the region's early European colonization.
The gravestones show different building styles from different decades and tell the story of German settlers and other European immigrants who shaped Brisbane. You can see the different craftsmanship and materials used in the memorials as you walk through the grounds.
Brisbane City Council manages this cemetery, which closed to new burials in 1963 but allows the placement of cremated remains in existing family plots. Visitors should walk on even paths and respect the quiet nature of the grounds.
William Maxwell (1867–1921), buried here, sat in the Queensland Legislative Assembly for Burke from 1899 and was a founding member of the Federation of Australia in 1901; his large family plot held six children. Seven service personnel, six from World War I and one from World War II, have graves registered by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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