By Myra Lee Adams Goff NEW BRAUNFELS – Let’s take a trip to Camp Warnecke. Most of you know where it was, but if you don’t, think of the Schlitterbahn Waterparks property between the San Antonio Street Bridge and the Garden Street Bridge. Imagine the time being around 1944 during

By Myra Lee Adams Goff The recording room at the Sophienburg has been out of order for almost three months. Badly in need of an upgrade, Carl Nowotny and Chris Hildebrand brought the equipment up-to-date and several volunteers replaced the deteriorating walls. Joel Erben, who originally donated the sound room

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In the northern corner of Fayette County near Round Top, Texas, lies an area of beautiful, peaceful, rolling hills. The serenity of the landscape hides its rather sordid past of greed, slavery, even a charge of murder. This piece of property, 4,428 acres, in the

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In 1980, a Recorded Texas Historic Landmark was designated here in Comal County. This landmark is the grotto right behind the Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The story behind this particular designation is important to all of us because it reminds us of that

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Do you keep a schedule? Do you stick to it or once you write something down, your brain says, “OK. That’s done”? Lists, like grocery lists, are a little like schedules and come in handy. For example, when you get home from the grocery store,

Meet the Author The “Adelsverein” trilogy can be purchased at Sophie’s Shop at the Sophienburg. Author Celia Hayes will be the guest speaker at the Scholarship Brunch of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, Ferdinand Lindheimer Chapter, on Saturday, March 12. Brunch and book review are $20. Reservations may

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Waggoners or Teamsters were important to early New Braunfels. They not only led the wagon trains of the early German settlers but they hauled freight to and from the frontier, especially the Gulf coast. G. Fred Oheim, editor of the Zeitung’s Jahrbuch in 1943, named

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In the Sophienburg Museum, there is a display of several prominent early civic leaders in New Braunfels. You will see Zink, von Coll, Lindheimer, Seele, Ervendberg, Meusebach and Dr. Theodore Koester. It seems that Koester was the most controversial of all these early leaders. Dr.

By Myra Lee Adams Goff In 1916, a unit of United States Army soldiers was on maneuvers from San Antonio and camped on the Landa Ranch overlooking Landa Park. One of those soldiers camping there was young Victor Kase who would return to New Braunfels to become band director at

By Myra Lee Adams Goff If we could have been in New Braunfels 164 years ago about this time of year (Dec. 31, 1846), we would have witnessed a group of about 130 early settlers on their way to a potential hanging. These new arrivals from Germany were disgruntled about