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Marburg , a rural town, is 17 km west of central Ipswich and 55 km west of Brisbane, just off the Warrego Highway en route to Toowoomba. Marburg is within Ipswich. Marburg was once covered by the Rosewood Scrub which was cleared and the area settled predominantly by German farmers in the s. An exception was the Woodlands Estate , selected by Charles Smith, who by the early s installed a sawmill, a sugar mill and a rum distillery. Many of the German farmers supplied the mill with cane, but within a few seasons it was found that rainfall was too low for good production.

Farmers turned to maize and dairying, although the mill continued to operate until Marburg, north of Frankfurt in Germany, is the burial place of the Prussian King Frederick the Great , making it an attractive choice of name for the German settlers. The Marburg area was intensively settled and in , when a courthouse was opened, a census population of was recorded. In , a decade before effective timber clearing enabled more farmers to settle, Marburg was described in the Australian handbook :.

In the s an unsuccessful attempt was made to have a branch railway opened from the Ipswich line to Marburg, but it took until for the Government to build a line from Rosewood. Sign In Not a member? Join now! Click here to search picture captions and descriptions. Position within Australia. Your location. Places last visited.

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