Langmeil Lutheran Church and cemetery, Tanunda
Langmeil Thanksgiving Congregation is one of the oldest Lutheran congregations in the country. Early services were held in the private homes of members and the congregation dedicated its first church on 26th December 1846. It was demolished in 1888.
Named after a village in Germany, Langmeil was settled by a group of German emigrants who came to South Australia in 1838 with Pastor Kavel. In 1842 they came to Langmeil, north of Tanunda, on the banks of the River Para. First church and rooms built 1846.
The desire for a new church commenced in 1868 and the contract was eventually let to J. Bastedow of Tanunda who undertook to erect masonry, roof and a ceiling for 595. The foundation stone was laid on 25 July and construction completed on 25 November. The debt on construction costs had been cleared by 1892.
The Cemetery contains the graves of Pastors Kavel, Auricht and Hebart, the first three Pastors of the Congregation.
Carl Friedrich Arnold
Born: 7 April 1828 at Neundorf, Silesia
Died:17 November 1909 at Tanunda SA
Johanne Karoline Arnold
Born: 17 February 1832 at Kay, Prussian
Died: 18 May 1911 at Tanunda, SA
Arrived in Adelaide with his brother Wilhelm in October 1854. He purchased and sold various parcels of land including in Brunskill (now Greenock) and St Kitts. Married Johanne Karoline Kruger nee Nitschke 30 August 1865 and lived at St Kitts until 1978 then returned to Greenock. The couple retired to Tanunda in 1902.
2.4 Johann Gottlieb Arnold
Born: 22 March 1858
Died: 5 August 1943
Johanna Ernstine Arnold
Born: 11 August 1860
Died: 23 July 1942
Gottlieb was the fourth child of Gottlob and Sophia Arnold. Gottlieb worked on Yorke Peninsula and as a teamster in Marree before taking up land in Angas Valley. He married his cousin Johanna Ernstine Arnold in 1884. They had eight children and lived in Loxton and had ten years in Greenock.
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Johann August Arnold
Born: 18 March 1864
Died: 22 May 1944
Ernestine Louise Pauline Dutschke
Born 18 October 1867
Died: 5 February 1957
August was the fifth child of Ehrenfried and Anna Arnold. He was born in Bethel and moved to Yorke Peninsula in 1883 to commence a new farming venture. He married Pauline at South Kilkerran in 1890. The family property remained in the Arnold family from 1890 to 1990.
Pauline Alma Arnold Louise Agnes Arnold
Born: 1 July 1900 Born: 18 January 1904
Died: 1 December 1987 Died: 21 July 1984
Alma was the sixth child and Louise the eighth child of August and Pauline Arnold. They kept house for their brothers and supported the work on the farm. They moved to Tanunda when their parents retied in 1934.
1.3.9 Bernhard Alfred Arnold
Born:13 – 2 – 1902
Died: 10 – 8 – 1986
Alwin Hilda Arnold nee John
Born: 21 – 10 -1907
Died: 14 – 9 1995
Bernhard was the ninth child of Ernst Wilhelm and Caroline Louise Arnold. He continued to live in Greenock following his marriage to Alwin Hilda John. Alfred was born in Greenock and attended the St Peter’s Lutheran Church where he served as a lay reader and Elder for thirty years.