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New Braunfels.(Central Texas)
- Article from:
- Texas Adventure Guide
- Article date:
- January 1, 1999
- Author:
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* History
After Texas earned its independence from Mexico, it was portrayed as the utopia of the New World to Germans, who were eager to find prosperity while their own country faltered through a depression. Several princes and nobles formed a "Mainzer Adelsverein," or League of Nobles, to sponsor Germans who wanted to emigrate to Texas.
Prince Carl von Solms-Braunfels and 200 others striking out for a better life, arrived in present-day New Braunfels on Good Friday, 1845. Its name is the same as the village in Germany where Prince Carl's castle stood. Before the prince could build a new castle in Texas--as he had planned--he learned that his fiancee, ...
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