One hundred seventy-two years ago this week, New Braunfels founding father Prince Carl Solms-Braunfels crossed the Guadalupe River, landing on the site of today’s City of New Braunfels. On March 21, he wrote in his ...
Efforts to obtain National Register Historic District status for the Fischer area of Comal County, some 20 miles northwest of New Braunfels, continue to move forward. The State Board of Review (SBR) on Jan. 21 ...
Before it was a widely popular tourist destination, Canyon Lake was a huge construction project. mysanantonio.com, the online version of San Antonio-Express, on June 16 posted 1962 photographs of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ...
The 1858 Breustedt-Dillen house (a registered national, state and city historic landmark) is an early Texas farmhouse of fachwerk construction. The Museum of Texas Handmade Furniture houses a collection of more than 70 pieces of ...
Visitors to New Braunfels can catch up on this and the rest of the city’s almost 60 years of history at Conservation Plaza. First, some history: New Braunfels was founded March 21, 1845 by Prince ...
The New Braunfels Railroad Museum is located—as one might expect—adjacent to the railroad tracks on West San Antonio Street. Within the museum is a variety of artifacts and historical photographs from the golden age of ...
What is the Sophienburg? In 1845 Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels and a group of emigrants set out from Germany to start a colony in the Republic of Texas. The Prince chose a site on the ...
In 1845 Lindheimer settled on 2½ acres on the Comal River at the invitation of Carl Prince Solms-Braunfels. The half-timbered house is one of the oldest remaining structures in New Braunfels. He collected a bounty ...
Book a walking tour to see New Braunfels, Texas! “Spass” in German means “fun.” Share a stroll in historic New Braunfels with friends and family hosted by Spass Walking Tours. Across the way, around the ...
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