By Myra Lee Adams Goff The Sophienburg Museum has a display featuring the early physicians Drs. Frederick and Bertha Frueholz who were a husband and wife team here in New Braunfels from the time they arrived in 1926. Their son, Dr. Frederick Frueholz, Jr. (known as Dr. Fred) revealed some

By Myra Lee Adams Goff After hearing laughter outside the Sophienburg’s collections building, I went inside and sure enough, there were those ladies that I had noticed before having so much fun: Helen Hoffmann, Georgia Banta, Virginia Nowotny, Yvonne Rahe, and Ora Mae Pfeuffer. Remember when they were refolding flour

By Myra Lee Adams Goff When New Braunfels was settled by German immigrants in 1845, the land across the Comal and between that river and the Guadalupe river was not part of NB, but a settlement called Comaltown. The land was granted to Juan de Veramendi by the State of Coahuila

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Have you ever eaten white paste? If you have, you probably went to school in the ‘30s and ‘40s. I never ate paste myself because I was told it was made out of horses’ hooves, and that did it! No paste for me, but I

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Thirty years ago in 1976, newspaperman Fred Oheim was interviewed and recorded by Radio Station KGNB owner Herb Skoog. This turned out to be the first Reflections program ever. To this day, that program airs every Sunday morning on the radio. These interviews record the

By Myra Lee Adams Goff One hundred and one years ago H. D. Gode bought the first automobile here in New Braunfels. Most citizens believed this contraption would never replace the horse and buggy. Well, at least we don’t have horse and buggy traffic jams on IH 35. I’m trying

By Myra Lee Adams Goff What a great response from last column’s photo! By far the “earliest bird” was Rose Marie Zipp who identified all the people. They are:Bottom L-R Hazel Tolle (Taylor), Myrtle Voigt (Clark) and Judy Baetge (Leick). Top L-R Lee Kohlenberg, Karon Thorman (Haas), and the one

By Myra Lee Adams Goff Happy birthday, Prince Carl. You’re 194 years old today! Thank you for guiding the settlers to New Braunfels. Although historians disagree on whether or not you were a good leader, you must have done something good because we’ve named a lot of things after you

Recently a child who was visiting the museum asked, “What is a Sophienburg?” Well, for some of you who may be wondering the same thing, here goes: When Prince Carl of Solms-Braunfels accompanied the German immigrants to Texas, and from the coast on to the area that became known as