Elsternwick, Victoria

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Elsternwick
Melbourne, Victoria
Shops - Elsternwick.jpg
Victorian shopfronts on the corner of Glen Huntly and St Georges Roads
Elsternwick is located in Melbourne
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Elsternwick
Population: 9,286 (2006)[1]
Established: 1861
Postcode: 3185
Area: 2.6 km² (1.0 sq mi)
Location:
LGA: City of Glen Eira
State District: Caulfield
Federal Division: Melbourne Ports
Suburbs around Elsternwick:
Elwood St Kilda East Caulfield North
Ripponlea, Brighton Elsternwick Caulfield
Brighton Gardenvale Caulfield South

Elsternwick is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 9 km south-east from Melbourne's central business district. Its Local Government Area is the City of Glen Eira. At the 2006 Census, Elsternwick had a population of 9286.

In terms of its cadastral division, Elsternwick is in the parish of Prahran within the County of Bourke.

It is bounded by Nepean Highway, Elster Avenue, Kooyong Road, Glen Eira Road and Hotham Street (the continuation of Williams Road). Elsternwick Park nearby and Elsternwick Park Golf Club bordered by Nepean Highway and Glen Huntly Road have always been connected with the suburb name of Elsternwick.

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[edit] Name

In the same way that Ripponlea took its name from the "Rippon Lea Estate" of Sir Frederick Sargood, Elsternwick took its name from the largest property in the district: Charles Ebden's house Elster (Elster is German for "magpie" de:Elster). The area was known as Red Bluff before this.

The creek nearby became known as the Elster Creek; and, when a village grew up on the creek, the Anglo-Saxon suffix ‘wick’, meaning village, was added.[2]

[edit] History

The Elsternwick village was proposed in 1851.[6]

Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856, and Elsternwick Post Office opened on 22 June 1860.[3]

In 1861 a railway line, operated by the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company, was built from Melbourne to Brighton, via Elsternwick.

In the 1880s, the Elsternwick railway station was also the Melbourne end of the railway line to the large scale sugar beet processing mill at Rosstown (see Rosstown Railway) — now known as Carnegie — and beyond. This railway was seldom used and it ceased to function in 1916.

The first site of Caulfield Grammar School, founded in 1881, was adjacent to the Elsternwick railway station.

A tramline was opened along Glen Huntly Road [7] in 1889.

A tramline between Elsternwick and Point Ormond opened in 1915; it closed on 22 October 1960.[4]

Elsternwick was originally situated across three municipalities - Caulfield, Brighton and St Kilda. At the end of the 1880s unsuccessful attempts were made for Elsternwick to become administratively independent. Today it is in the Local Government Area of the City of Glen Eira. The postcode is 3185.

[edit] Today

Elsternwick is the home of perhaps the best-known brothel in Australia, and certainly Melbourne, the Daily Planet, which was the first in the world to be listed on a stock exchange (the Australian Securities Exchange).[5]

Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick has a variety of cafés and restaurants.

[edit] Transport

Elsternwick railway station is located on Riddell Parade next to Glen Huntly Road. Melbourne Tram Route No. 67 links from Glen Huntly Road in Elsternwick to Melbourne CBD through Brighton and St Kilda Roads.

[edit] Sport

The Elsternwick Cricket Club was founded in August 1901. The Elsternwick Main Oval, now known as Sportscover Arena or Elsternwick Park, was established shortly after the club's foundation. The 'Wickas', as the club is affectionately known, plays in the Victorian Sub-District Cricket Association.[6]

Golfers play at the course of the Elsternwick Park Golf Club on Glen Huntly Road.[7]

[edit] Schools

Private Schools

[edit] Residential architecture

  • "Lisbon House", 70 Orrong Road, is a grand Victorian terrace home.

  • 1930s remodelled Victorian terraces, Glen Eira Road (opposite Caulfield Grammar School)

  • Elsternwick railway station warehouses converted to townhouses and apartment in Horne Street

  • Elsternwick Retirement Apartment (Victoria By The Park) next to Hopetoun Gardens

[edit] Non-residential architecture

  • The Elsternwick Hotel (built 1856), corner of Glen Huntly and Brighton Roads

  • Elsternwick Congregational Church

  • Jewish Holocaust Museum, Selwyn Street

  • Former Elsternwick Post Office and former Caulfield City rifle club buildings

  • Former Elsternwick Fire Station

  • Tudor style dominates Glen Eira shopping village (Corner of Glen Eira & Orrong Roads) in Elsternwick

  • Classic Theatre in Elsternwick (one of the earliest theatres in Melbourne)

  • Shopping strip of Glen Huntly Road [1] in Elsternwick

[edit] Open space

[edit] Notable residents

[edit] See also

  • City of Caulfield - the former local government area of which Elsternwick was a part.

[edit] References

  1. ^ Australian Bureau of Statistics (25 October 2007). "Elsternwick (State Suburb)". 2006 Census QuickStats. http://www.censusdata.abs.gov.au/ABSNavigation/prenav/LocationSearch?collection=Census&period=2006&areacode=SSC21247&producttype=QuickStats&breadcrumb=PL&action=401. Retrieved 2007-09-26. 
  2. ^ See: [2]
  3. ^ Premier Postal History, Post Office List, https://www.premierpostal.com/cgi-bin/wsProd.sh/Viewpocdwrapper.p?SortBy=VIC&country=, retrieved 2008-04-11 
  4. ^ The tram had no "route number".
  5. ^ Sex and the market
  6. ^ [3], accessed November 2010
  7. ^ Golf Select, Elsternwick Park, http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=658, retrieved 2009-05-11 
  8. ^ [4], accessed 08 July 2010
  9. ^ [5], accessed 08 July 2010

[edit] External links

Coordinates: 37°53′13″S 145°00′22″E / 37.887°S 145.006°E / -37.887; 145.006
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