Over the next twenty years he also served several other Lutheran congregations: Lyndoch, Concordia (5 km ENE of Gawler), Schoenfeld (near Freeling) and King's Belt (near Sheaoak Log).
He was at the forefront of agitation for equal voting rights for naturalized Germans,[6] and gave popular and stimulating lectures on scientific subjects.
[3] For years he took a very practical interest in "takeall"[2] and "red rust", significant diseases of wheat, studying the soil and roots under a microscope, and discovered parasites that could have been responsible.
[8] In late 1849 Muecke, together with Otto Schomburgk and Gustav Droege[a] founded the Suedaustralische Zeitung, a German-language weekly newspaper,[9] using Roman type (and replacing umlauted letters with their two-letter equivalent), perhaps as a rejection of tradition, or that being the only typeface available.
[21] By 1879 he had returned, unheralded, to South Australia, living at Semaphore,[22] then around 1890, thinking the mountain air would be beneficial to his health, he retired to Hahndorf.