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unusual facts about New Braunfels


Hermann, Prince of Wied

The settlement of New Wied, Texas, a few miles north of New Braunfels on the Guadalupe River located in the eastern side of Comal County, was established after the epidemic of 1846, as more than 300 German settlers in the region had died.


August von Bibra

The Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas was an emigration enterprise first organized by a group of German noblemen in 1842 that resulted in the founding of New Braunfels, Fredericksburg, and other German communities in Texas.

Evangelical Association of Reformed and Congregational Christian Churches

The EA began in 1998 from meetings between the clergy of First Protestant Church in New Braunfels, Texas and St. John's Evangelical Protestant Church in Cullman, Alabama, two large UCC congregations of Evangelical and Reformed (German Protestant) heritage.

Hermann Lungkwitz

In addition to Gillespie County vistas, his Texas subjects were the German settlements of New Braunfels and Sisterdale, the Hamilton Pool and West Cave at Round Mountain, Marble Falls, and areas around Austin and San Antonio.

Ramiro Martinez

Ramiro Martinez became a narcotics investigator, a Texas Ranger, and a Justice of the Peace in New Braunfels, Texas.


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Carl G. von Iwonski

When Duke Paul Wilhelm of Württemberg visited New Braunfels on an 1855 visit, Iwonski made him a gift of six pencil sketches of his Texas creations.

Howard Payne University at New Braunfels

Until HPU’s permanent campus in New Braunfels is constructed as part of the new Veramendi development project, courses will be offered during evenings and weekends at New Braunfels High School, online, and at a separate facility on Loop 337.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke

Blaschke resides in New Braunfels, Texas, and is a member of the Turkey City Writer's Workshop.

John O. Meusebach

Before they could be married, she died in Germany of Typhoid fever while he was administrating the establishments of New Braunfels and Fredericksburg.