Elsternwick

Elsternwick is a residential suburb 9 km south-east of central Melbourne between bayside Elwood and Caulfield South. The name is derived from ‘elster’, the German word for magpie and the Anglo-Saxon ‘wick’ meaning village. Charles Ebden (the builder of Black Rock House, Black Rock, 1856), also had a house in the Elsternwick area, which it is thought he named Elster. The name Elsternwick came into general use in the late 1850s.