Download coordinates as: Zillmere is a suburb in the City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

[5] The Turrbal people occupied the region north of Brisbane River, including the area covered by Zillmere.

[citation needed] With European settlement, the area came to be known as Zillman's Waterholes, named after Johann Leopold Zillmann (1813–1892), a Lutheran missionary who served at the mission station nearby at Nundah.

[15][16] A slaughterhouse and curing works was established in 1898 by J.C. Hutton Pty Ltd to slaughter and process pigs from regional farms.

A map advertising the auction states the Estate was 3 minutes walk from Zillmere Railway Station.

A map advertising the auction states the estate was close to Zillmere railway station and fronting Sandgate Road.

[20] On Sunday 25 June 1933, Archbishop James Duhig laid the foundation stone for St Dympna's Catholic Church.

Migrant barracks near Church Road were used to resettle post-war European immigrants until they were destroyed by fire in the mid-1950s.

[28] St Flannan's Catholic School opened within the church building on 29 March 1954.

St Flannan's Catholic Church and School were officially dedicated by Archbishop James Duhig in November 1954.

67.1% of people living in Zillmere were born in Australia, compared to the national average of 69.8%; the next most common countries of birth were New Zealand 4.8%, India 3.3%, U.K. 2.8%, Philippines 1.7%, Italy 0.7%.

77.5% of people spoke only English at home; the next most common languages were 1.4% Punjabi, 1.1% Samoan, 0.9% Tagalog, 0.8% Karen, 0.8% Cantonese.

[1] There are a number of heritage-listed sites in the suburb, including: The word Zillmere can be broken into two parts Zill and mere.

Spelling variations of this family name include: Zyll, Zyl, Zeil, Ziel, Zyller, Zyllmann, Zillmann, Zylhoffer.

mari-, marei, Old Norse marr (Swedish mar-, French mare).

They derive from reconstituted Germanic *mari, itself from Indo-European *mori, the same root as marsh and moor.

The Indo-European root gave also birth to similar words in the other European languages : Latin mare 'sea' (Italian mar", French mer), Old Celtic *mori 'sea' (Gaulish mori-, more, Irish muir, Welsh môr, Breton mor), Old Slavic morje.

[citation needed] Zillmere is also home to a local Parkrun which is run every Saturday morning at the North Star Football club grounds.