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    The Vahland School
    Lawler, Geoffrey ( 1979)
    The City of Bendigo owes a great deal of its early heritage to the great number of German immigrants who came to the Sandhurst area during the gold rush years and settled there. More than any other Victorian centre, Bendigo benefited from this particular country and especially so in its architecture. It was this aspect that first aroused my interest in Bendigonian architecture and it led me to the most prominent architect in Bendigo between the years 1850-1900, Wilhelm Karl Vahland. Further investigation led me to find that there was a strong German group working with Vahland and the study could be expanded to include his partners Getzschmann and his son H.E. Vahland and a principal employee William Nicolai. These four German architects between them, accounted for the majority of significant buildings in Bendigo and the various partnerships with Vahland were, by far, the longest running practice in Bendigo. This is evidenced in the chart included. (From Introduction)