Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Pastor Hermann Kilian on January 21, 1920. The church that Pastor Kilian served (along with his father, Pastor Jan Kilian, and his brother, Teacher Gerhard Kilian) still stands today in Serbin. But there’s another Kilian that followed in the footsteps of Gerhard, Hermann, and Jan in …
Žohnowane hody (that’s “Merry Christmas” in Upper Sorbian, aka Wendish) from Lee County, Texas!* It’s been a few days since I’ve posted any history, but I’ve been saving this one up for all y’all because it’s seasonally appropriate! (Okay, truth be told I wrote this before Christmas and it’s been just waiting for me to …
I had grand plans on Saturday… to get my hair cut in Georgetown, photograph most of the Lee County Lutheran churches with their Christmas decorations and the like, swing by the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum and pick up some Christmas gifts, have lunch at City Meat Market, Giddings, Texas, head down to Fayetteville to see a art display …
Today we dropped by the Texas Wendish Heritage Museum in Serbin to pick up some things for Christmas gifts. Yep, you guessed it. I took a few pictures in St. Paul’s Lutheran Church too. Just a few. Only one hundred and sixteen between our stops there and in Warda and Fedor. After all, we had …
While sometimes I wish I’d lived in times past, I can’t deny that I’m fortunate to live in an age where I can dig up an astounding amount of history from the comfort of my own laptop. It would, for instance, be fantastic to see steam locomotives operating on a regular basis, but historical research …
Colonel Charles P. Vance’s ties to Lexington, Texas Read More »
On Monday, I re-discovered my copy of The WPA Guide to Texas. (Moving is awful, y’all… a year and a half later, and my library is still disorganized. That may or may not be because I spend more time taking photos and driving around Texas than organizing it, or because I keep buying more books. But …
Let all mortal flesh keep silenceAnd with fear and trembling stand;Ponder nothing earthly minded,For with blessing in His handChrist our God to earth descendingComes our homage to demand. Whew… for some reason things are a little busy here at LSBR HQ! We enjoyed our time at Wendish Fest on Sunday. It was good to see …
The town of Lincoln takes its name from a circuit-riding preacher by the name John Lincoln, who lived nearby. Lincoln was part of what is called the “Restoration Movement,” which more or less originated in the Second Great Awakening and sought to return the church to first-century Christian practices. Churches in the Christian Church, Church …
Several people have asked about the history of Lincoln, Texas, and though I’ve looked, I’ve found very little information outside of the history of St. John’s and what was published in the 1974 History of Lee County volume produced by the Lee County Historical Survey Committee. One interesting thing that caught my eye in that …
Parochial School vs. Public School in Lincoln, Texas Read More »
In 1873 the rift between Pr. Kilian and his long-time organist, cantor, and friend Carl Teinert had grown so great that Teinert left Kilian’s congregation and helped found the church that is now Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Warda. Three years passed before Kilian and Teinert met again, at the installation of Pr. Proft at …