Queensland > Southern Downs

Das Helwig Haus

A Country House Retreat on 14 hectares, south of Stanthorpe amongst the wineries and near 4 National Parks. Das Helwig Haus offers guests the choice of ensuite rooms or self-contained cottage style apartments.

In 1997 the journalists of the Queensland Sunday Mail named Das Helwig Haus the best B&B in Queensland. In 1998 SBS TV filmed their famous German Christmas Dinner feasts. Don Burke of Burkes Backyard TV fame featured their superb organic garden on national TV. On Queensland TV, Das Helwig Haus has appeared on The Great South East and Brisbane Extra. In 2005 the Premier of Queensland, the Hon. Peter Beattie presented Eberhard and Fay with the inaugural award for the best multicultural small business in Queensland.

The four new self-contained apartments have a queen size double bed and a single bed, ensuites, a kitchenette, TV, recliner chairs and wood fires. French doors open onto a wide veranda and covered car parking is provided at the rear. They are linked to the main house by a covered walk way through the rose garden or guests can follow wandering paths to the main entrance.

The two ensuite rooms in the main guest wing have a queen size double bed and verandas overlooking the remarkable garden. They share a communal lounge and TV room with refrigerator, tea and coffee making facilities. Guests may use the gas barbecue in the gazebo or take a picnic meal.

A German buffet breakfast is served on heavily laden tables in the main dining room. Produce from the organic garden is presented as fruit compotes, jams, jellies and marmalades along with muesli & porridge, sausages, ham & eggs, and home baked wholemeal bread toasted or fresh bread.

A magnificent field of brilliant red Flanders poppies amongst the gum trees is a rare sight in the Australian bush, but it is one of the special spring attractions of Das Helwig Haus. To see this attraction arrange a stay between mid-October and mid November.

The Granite Belt, where Das Helwig Haus is situated, has a unique association with Flanders. The region boasts seven battlefield place names -Amiens, Messines, Bapaume, Passchendaele, Bullecourt, Pozieres and Fleurbaix that date from a post World War One settlement. In recognition of this heritage, Fay and Eberhard Helwig, hosts of Das Helwig Haus, plant a Remembrance Field of Flanders poppies in front of their home every year to commemorate those who have made the supreme sacrifice.

Guests who book a group stay of 4-6 couples may arrange for a special birthday party dinner or a full Christmas dinner to be served in the dining room on Saturday nights.

Tariffs

Main House from $130 Double, $80 Single per night

Self Contained Cottage $ 160 per night

Prices based on per night and includes breakfast