The buildings at Hermannsburg

ADD The buildings at Hermannsburg were built for endurance and self-sufficiency. Extreme isolation and prohibitive transport costs meant the missionaries had to rely almost entirely on locally produced materials for building. As the Hermannsburg Precinct tourist brochure states, the early missionaries used quarried sandstone and burnt lime to construct walls and cut flagstone floors> They also used desert oak in place of heavy timbers. The first roofs were made of reed thatch which was later replaced by galvanised iron.

NOTE::::See the map of the Hermannsburg historic precinct. This could be good to scan in. (The listed buildings only relate to those constructed up until 1922)