Elsternwick, Victoria

Infobox Australian Place | type = suburb
name = Elsternwick
city = Melbourne
state = vic

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caption = Victorian shopfronts on the corner of Glen Huntly and St Georges Roads
lga = City of Glen Eira
postcode = 3185
pop = 9,286 (2006) Census 2006 AUS | id = SSC21247 | name = Elsternwick (State Suburb) | accessdate = 2007-09-26 | quick = on]
area = 2.6
est = 1861
propval = $884,000 [ [http://www.domain.com.au/public/suburbprofile.aspx?suburb=Elsternwick&postcode=3185 Elsternwick] , accessed 13 March 2008]
stategov = Caulfield
fedgov = Melbourne Ports
dist1 = 10
location1= Melbourne
dist2 = 3
location2= Port Phillip Bay
dist3 = 2
location3= Caulfield Racecourse
near-nw = Elwood
near-n = St Kilda East
near-ne = Caulfield North
near-w = Ripponlea, Brighton
near-e = Caulfield
near-sw = Brighton
near-s = Gardenvale
near-se = Caulfield South

Elsternwick is a residential suburb 9 kilometres south-east of Melbourne, Australia, in the state of Victoria.

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

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 Hotson Ebden's [ [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A010332b.htm] , [http://www.parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/parlment/members.nsf/1fb6ebed995667c2ca256ea100825164/73887ab5428544c0ca256ef20014faee?OpenDocument] , [http://www.parliament.vic.gov.au/re-member/bioregfull.cfm?mid=351] ] house "Elster" (Elster is German for "magpie"). 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. [See: [http://www.anps.mq.edu.au/documents/Sept_2004.pdf] ]

History

Elsternwick village was surveyed in 1856.

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 Glenhuntly Road [http://elsternwick.com] in 1889. Today, Melbourne Tram Route No. 67 links from Glenhuntly Road in Elsternwick to Melbourne CBD through Brighton and St Kilda Roads.

A tramline between Elsternwick and Point Ormond opened in 1915; it closed on 22 October 1960. [The tram had no "route number".]

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.

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). [ [http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/07/23/1027332350496.html Sex and the market] ]

Geography

Its boundaries are Nepean Highway, Elster Avenue, Kooyong Road, Glen Eira Road and Hotham Street (the continuation of Williams Road). [http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/sport_elsternwick.htm Elsternwick Park] nearby and [http://www.golfselect.com.au/armchair/courseView.aspx?course_id=658 Elsternwick Park Golf Club] bordered by Nepean Highway and Glenhuntly Road have always been connected with the suburb name of Elsternwick.

chools

Private Schools

Wesley College

Residential architecture

Non-residential architecture

Open space

ee also

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

References

External links

* [http://www.gleneira.vic.gov.au Glen Eira City Council]
* [http://web.archive.org/web/20050721105202/http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ncas/multimedia/gazetteer/list/elsternwick.html Australian Places - Elsternwick]
* http://www.elsternwick.com - includes photos and attractions in Elsternwick