This week’s selection will be a two-part series. Part One will run this week, and Part Two will appear next week. If you have spent any time in Central Texas, you quickly learn that the cities and ...

The brewery was built by German immigrant Heinrich Ludwig Kreische in approximately 1870, with events at the site commencing soon after. “Bluff SchuetzenFest reimagines and builds upon the gatherings ...

The year was 1959. German immigrants Karl and Ria Kuby had relocated 500 miles north to Dallas from San Juan, Texas, where Karl had taken a job at Carl’s European Sausage Co. For two years, he honed ...

You know about Tex-Mex cooking, but what about German-Tex? Its beauty lies in the stomach of the engulfer.

New Braunfels wears its German heritage proudly. From Wurstfest to biergartens, the history of the Hill Country town is steeped in traditions brought over by settlers nearly two centuries ago. But if ...

Imagine someone interviews you, your siblings, and your parents about a family trip—you’d all have different versions. But now let’s say your dad’s version—the sunniest of all—prompts a movement.

If you're craving a trip with old world style this summer, Fredericksburg in Texas Hill Country may be just your ticket. Founded in 1846 by German settlers under the Adelsverein, it’s known as the ...

When Kaye Langehennig Wong was a little girl in Katy in the '60s, her parents would take her to visit her grandparents in Fredericksburg. “My grandparents lived in a stone house on Main Street,” she ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online. Here's a ...

As the sky darkens over the town square, families gather in anticipation. The notes of “O Tannenbaum,” the 19th-century German Christmas carol, plink out of the sound system. A trio of tots race ...