Texas Heritage

[deemus]

If you like German food, stop by Walburg (northeast of Georgetown). They have the German food.

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There's several in Fredericksburg. My little sour kraut likes to eat at any of the ones there. Can't recall names, except for Auslanders. They have German food and a great CFS.

 

[BRD@66]

Czech Stop is still there. But across the highway is Slovaceks. Great meats and better kalaches. I never go to Czech Stop anymore. But the best kolaches are downtown at Geriks or the Village bakery.

^this

 

[karlac]

As long as there no Czechoslovakia blood in it. You're good.

For some reason I never understood. German Texans and Czech Texans did not like each other.

You can pretty well bet it was mostly religious at the time, and going back to the reformation, which still created a schism in European minds, and often was the reason for immigrating to the new world.

Manifested in many small Texas towns:

If the first/biggest, or only church in town was Lutheran, it was generally a German settlement.
If a Catholic church, it was generally a Czech/Polish settlement.

 

[avvidclif]

My Paternal Great Grandfather was born in Tennessee and came to Texas in 1862 and married a girl that was born in the Republic of Texas. They had 11 kids that survived to adulthood. My Grandfather was the last in 1888. His oldest brother was 26 at the time. That makes me third generation Texan. My line has since added the 4th, 5th, and 6th generation.

 

[easy rider]

You can pretty well bet it was mostly religious at the time, and going back to the reformation, which still created a schism in European minds, and often was the reason for immigrating to the new world.

Manifested in many small Texas towns:

If the first/biggest, or only church in town was Lutheran, it was generally a German settlement.
If a Catholic church, it was generally a Czech/Polish settlement.

I could be wrong, but I believe it was the Spanish that brought the Catholic church.

 

[karlac]

I could be wrong, but I believe it was the Spanish that brought the Catholic church.

In Spanish settlements, yes.
In Texas Czech/Polish "settlements", they built there own Catholic church.

 

[avvidclif]

Fredericksburg has turned into a tourist trap. In '79 I married a local girl from there and it was a totally different town. Her parents came from a line of original settlers from Germany in 1845 I think it was. Lived in a stone house with 12-16" thick walls built in the 1800's. We're divorced and I seldom go down there, that's her territory.

 

[Tex62]

Fredericksburg has turned into a tourist trap. In '79 I married a local girl from there and it was a totally different town. Her parents came from a line of original settlers from Germany in 1845 I think it was. Lived in a stone house with 12-16" thick walls built in the 1800's. We're divorced and I seldom go down there, that's her territory.

Yep. I’ve been going there since the 80’s. Parents were living in Kerrville. Mother-in-law is moved back there when she retired. Housing prices are through the roof there now. Natives can’t afford to live there now.


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[grasshopperglock]

You can pretty well bet it was mostly religious at the time, and going back to the reformation, which still created a schism in European minds, and often was the reason for immigrating to the new world.

Manifested in many small Texas towns:

If the first/biggest, or only church in town was Lutheran, it was generally a German settlement.
If a Catholic church, it was generally a Czech/Polish settlement.

I attended a Lutheran church in "The Grove", Texas on hwy 36. In the history of it. Sermons were only in German. The males and females sat on different sides of the church. Then it slowly changed to a mix of German and English. Females and males could sit together if they wanted.

Finally it went to English and the male/female separation is part of the history.

Places like West are Catholic.

If a Lutheran can't find a Lutheran church. They can visit a Catholic church. I don't know if Catholics visit Lutheran.

 

[karlac]

If a Lutheran can't find a Lutheran church. They can visit a Catholic church. I don't know if Catholics visit Lutheran.

My parents did.

Raised Catholic, but spent their last 30 years going to the Lutheran Church in Whitehall, TX ... the only church in that little German town to this day.

Mom was half German/half French ... big German community around Roberts Cove, in South Louisiana where her mother's family, a Klein from Aachen Germany, lived and farmed rice. Thus my first name.

Not even an Iglesia.

 

[grasshopperglock]

My parents did.

Raised Catholic, but spent their last 30 years going to the Lutheran Church in Whitehall, TX ... the only church in that little German town to this day.

Not even an Iglesia.

Saint Paul is practically across the street from Whitehall with a few folks from church living there.

With the bulk of members living in Moffat and the surrounding area.


We might know each other or have at least met.

 

[karlac]

Saint Paul is practically across the street from Whitehall with a few folks from church living there.

With the bulk of members living in Moffat and the surrounding area.


We might know each other or have at least met.

Might be a different Whitehall, this one is in Grimes County, about 15 mi SE of Navasota?

 

[Davetex]

You can pretty well bet it was mostly religious at the time, and going back to the reformation, which still created a schism in European minds, and often was the reason for immigrating to the new world.

Manifested in many small Texas towns:

If the first/biggest, or only church in town was Lutheran, it was generally a German settlement.
If a Catholic church, it was generally a Czech/Polish settlement.

Thank you for explaining that, I'd always wondered how/where that friction started.

 

[grasshopperglock]

Might be a different Whitehall, this one is in Grimes County, about 15 mi SE of Navasota?

Different. This is one in Bell County.

https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/hnw44