Heidelberg is a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 11 km north-east of Melbourne's central business district. Its local government area is the City of Banyule. The land at Heidelberg was sold by Crown auction in 1838, making it one of the earliest rural allotments in Australia, as Melbourne was founded only three years earlier. By 1840, Warringal had been established as a surveyed township, the name referring to an Aboriginal term for eagle's nest. Eventually, Warringal was changed to Heidelberg by a land agent, after the German city of Heidelberg. (wikipedia.org)