What is Hermannsburg, Northern Territory?
{{Infobox Australian place | type = town | name = Hermannsburg<br /><small>''Ntaria''</small> | state = nt | image = Hermannsburg NT.jpg | caption = Hermannsburg [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] church | coordinates = {{coord|23|56|35|S|132|46|40|E|display=inline,title}} | lga = | postcode = 0872 | est = | pop = 625 | pop_year = {{CensusAU|2011}} | pop_footnotes = | elevation= | maxtemp = | mintemp = | rainfall = | stategov = [[Electoral division of Namatjira|Namatjira]] | fedgov = [[Division of Lingiari|Lingiari]] | dist1 = 131 | dir1 = | location1= [[Alice Springs, Northern Territory|Alice Springs]] }} '''Hermannsburg''' is an [[Australian Aborigine|Aboriginal]] community in the [[Northern Territory]] of Australia. It is about {{convert|131|km|abbr=on}} southwest of [[Alice Springs]]. It is known in the local [[Arrernte]] language as '''Ntaria'''. In the 2006 [[census]], Hermannsburg had a population of 559. It was established as a [[Lutheran]] [[Mission (Christianity)|mission]] in 1877 by two missionaries from Germany. They named their new mission after [[Hermannsburg, Germany|Hermannsburg]] in Germany where they had trained. The missionaries left in 1891, but people still lived at the settlement. The mission land was given over to [[Aboriginal land rights in Australia|traditional ownership]] in 1982. The famous painter [[Albert Namatjira]] was born at Hermannsburg in 1902. He painted [[landscape]]s in Western-style watercolours. Painting in this style came to be known as the [[Hermannsburg School]] of painting. ==Other websites== *[http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/hermannsburg.htm South Australian History - Hermannsburg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110319050415/http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/hermannsburg.htm |date=2011-03-19 }} {{geo-stub}} [[Category:1877 establishments in Australia]] [[Category:Indigenous Australian communities]] [[Category:Towns in the Northern Territory]] [[Category:Australian National Heritage List]] [[Category: