Architecture of Fredericksburg, Texas
Depending on the individual family's need, these relatively small houses were designed for limited stays, with one or two ground floor rooms and an upper loft for sleeping.
[9] Pupils learned their lessons in their own German language, and their parents paid $1 per quarter in tuition for each child.
[10] The first teacher in the Vereins-Kirche in 1847 was Professor Johann (John) Leyendecker, who emigrated from Rhineland-Palatinate with his wife and five children.
Financial support for the teacher and school was provided by a flat annual fee, plus an additional monthly stipend per student.
120 E. Main Street The Richardsonian Romanesque style bank building was designed in 1889 by architect Alfred Giles.
Designated a recorded Texas Historic Landmark in 1980, marker number 10029, the stone structure business establishment at 222 E. Main Street, with its vaulted ceiling and cellar, was built in the early 1850s by John Schmidtzinsky.
103 W. Travis The Turnvereins, or athletic clubs, were begun in Germany by Friedrich Ludwig Jahn in 1811, and were brought to the United States by the Forty-Eighters political refugees.
The Fredericksburg Social Turn Verein moved to 103 W. Travis Street in 1909, and remains active as one of the city's oldest continuing organizations.
418 N. Llano Street Peter Gold Sr. built the original one-story native limestone house in 1902.
306 W. Main Street Gunsmith Engelbert Krauskopf and silversmith Adolph Lungkwitz manufactured gun caps at this location during the Civil War.
In 1874, he built the original native limestone structure for John Schmidt, in Sunday House style with an outside stairway.
The "Keidel Clinic" served the people of Fredericksburg until the larger and more modern Hill Country Memorial Hospital opened in 1971.
405 E. Main Street German immigrant Frederick Kiehne built this hand-cut limestone, adobe brick and timber home in 1850.
414 E. Main Street The native combination commercial-residential limestone building was constructed c. 1870 on property owned by John Adams Alberthal.
Noted cabinetmaker Johann Martin Loeffler added typical rock and half-timber rooms and cooking fireplace, 1867; his son-in-law, J. Charles Weber, in 1905 restored the southeast lean-to.
302 E. Main Street Believed to have been built as a one-story stone structure in 1860, Henry Meckel purchased the building in 1886.
125 W. San Antonio Albert and Doris Meinhardt built the two-story native limestone home c. 1850.
Upon Albert's death, Doris sold it to G. Adolph Pfeil, who operated a blacksmith ship and soda water factory from the structure.
121 E. San Antonio Johann Nicholas Mosel built a limestone structure, possibly as a Sunday House, on his 1847 grant from the German Immigration Company.
201 S. Washington It is believed the original two-room fachwerk house was built between 1848 and 1850, by colonist Willis Wallace on land from the German Immigration Company.
222 W. Main In 1897, Albert Lee Patton constructed a two-story native limestone building adjacent to his general store.
205 E. Main This hand-hewn limestone building was erected in 1897 and served as a residence for John and Bertha Klein Schandua.
714 Main Street A typical German fachwerk design house, with a porch roof parapet, gable-end chimneys, and a decorative wood balustrade.
Tatsch became a master cabinetmaker in Fredericksburg, and his work is highly prized by collectors of Texas primitive furniture.
246 E. Main Famous for its elephant relief parapet and rich iron cresting, the native limestone building was constructed in 1888 by John W. Kleck.
In 1847, Lyman Wight, with the blessing of John O. Meusebach, built a Mormon temple and founded the Zodiac community near Fredericksburg.
The majority of the initial settlers of Fredericksburg were of the Evangelical Protestant Church, but some were also Lutheran, Roman Catholic and Methodist.
110 W. Austin Street On March 27, 1887, eighty families adopted a constitution for Die Evangelische Kirche (The Evangelical church).
Eduard Schneider, with charter members: Melchior and Rosine Bauer, Johann and Margaretha Durst, Friedrich and Sophie Ellebracht, Ernst and Dorothea Houy, Ferdinand and Maria Kneese, Ludwig Kneese, Heinrich and Catharine Steihl, Jacob and Catharine Treibs, Fritz and Fredericka (Mary) Winkel.
Cornerstone for the new St. Mary's Catholic Church was laid July 4, 1905, built of native limestone in Gothic architecture.
