Carbrook Lutheran Cemetery

This region was named Gramzow by its early settlers, after a town in the Ukermark district of Germany. Settlers included Herman Meissner, John Sommer, Auguste Fischer, Carl Habermann, and Christian Lehmann, who look up land here in 1868. They were mostly part of Pastor Hausmann’s Lutheran mission based at Alberton on the southern side of the Logan River. Mount Cotton also had a number of German settlers and by 1875 Pastor Hausmann purchased ten acres of land situated between the two settlements. A church was designed and built in traditional North German style. Redland Bay Lutherans travelled to this church via German Church Road. A cemetery was established with graves arranged on the western side of the allotment. There are over one hundred burials with memorials, although many of the earliest graves are no longer marked. Many of the earlier monuments are inscribed in German. Services were conducted in German at St Paul’s Lutheran Church until 1924. The locality name was changed to Carbrook in 1916 as part of an Australia-wide erasure of German place names during WWI. The church was demolished in 1951 and a new one built at Mount Cotton. The cemetery remains in use.