Lissner Park
| Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park | |
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Lissner Park, 2009
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| Location | Bridge Street, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia |
| Coordinates | 20°04′19″S 146°15′39″E / 20.072°S 146.2609°ECoordinates: 20°04′19″S 146°15′39″E / 20.072°S 146.2609°E |
| Design period | 1870s - 1890s (late 19th century) |
| Built | 1883 - 1988 |
| Official name: Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park | |
| Type | state heritage (built, landscape) |
| Designated | 21 October 1992 |
| Reference no. | 600397 |
| Significant period | 1883-(social) 1883-1988(historical) 1883-1959(fabric) |
| Significant components | natural feature - cliff, pond/s - garden, bandstand/rotunda, fountain, memorial - kiosk, fernery, trees/plantings, bridge - foot/pedestrian, enclosure/s - animal, playground, gate/s |
 Location of Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park in Queensland
Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park (Australia)
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Boer War Veterans Memorial Kiosk and Lissner Park is a heritage-listed memorial at Bridge Street, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia. It was built from 1883 to 1988. It was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 21 October 1992.
A Temporary Reserve for Public Recreation of 18 acres 3 roods 34 perches, bounded by Anne, Deane, Bridge and Church Streets, Charters Towers, was proclaimed on 15 May 1883. In 1888 the reserve was named Lissner Park after Isidor Lissner, a Charters Towers businessman and politician and later a minister in the 1893 Griffith Ministry. Discovered in late 1871, Charters Towers became the richest of the North Queensland mining fields. The field was proclaimed a town in 1877, and by the early 1880s was a prosperous settlement which made a major contribution to the social, political and economic development of North Queensland.
The predominant vegetation of the Charters Towers district was Eucalyptus woodland and open Eucalyptus woodland, which was quickly destroyed as timber was felled and used as shoring for the mines, for building purposes, and as fuel for the Cornish boilers. Concern that the environment was being destroyed led to protests about the loss of vegetation from leading citizens, including Anglican Bishop Gilbert White and Isidore Lissner MLA. As a result of the devastation and in keeping with the prevailing belief that the development of gardens improved the moral character and social well being of the community, Lissner encouraged the Charters Towers Municipal Council to request that a reserve be set aside for recreation and botanical purposes.
A Temporary Reserve for Public Recreation, proclaimed on 15 May 1885, was placed under "the control of the Municipal Council" and on 17 August 1891 the park became a permeant reserve with the Municipal Council appointed as trustees.
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