Ribbon-cutting for New Live Music Stage – Click here for video (about 3 minutes).

Maifest 2010 – Another Great Festival! – Click here for video  (about 8 minutes).

For the creation and donation of these fantastic videos, we owe a very special Vielen Dank to Stephen Davis, owner of 5D Multimedia, the newest video production company in Austin!  Check out his website at http://www.5dmultimedia.com and share with your friends.

Click here for access to a calendar of activities for events of the German-Texan Heritage Society.  Most events take place at the German Free School in Austin but check the details for each item.

Zion Lutheran Church

Meeting chair, Carl Luckenbach, invites you to Fredericksburg for our 31^st Annual Meeting at Zion Lutheran Church.

Our  schedule  includes  genealogy  sessions,  presentations on Fredericksburg
churches, Admiral Nimitz, Grapetown, and Hermann Lehmann. We also will offer tours of private homes and cemeteries and field trips to areas of significant German-Texan history, including the very spot where Baron von Meusebach signed the treaty with the Comanches.

We know this will be a popular destination for our meeting and expect a crowd. We look forward to seeing you in September. For details click here:

GTHS Annual Meeting Package.

Movies will resume on September 17.  Check back for more details.

German Language Classes – Fall Semester

German language classes will start again in September 2010.

More information will be posted here soon.

At the German Free School in Austin on a beautiful Saturday in late October 2009, we celebrated Oktoberfest with music, dancing, great German food and beer, fun activities for the kids and more!  If you were able to participate you are probably looking forward to future festivals.  If you missed this one, maybe the video at this link will spark your interest:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGgJfjkVsYw

This video was professionally produced and generously donated to GTHS by  Stephen Davis, owner of 5D Multimedia, the newest video production company in Austin!  Check out his website at http://www.5dmultimedia.com and share with your friends.

GTHS is enrolled in the Randall’s ‘Good Neighbor’ program, which means that the supermarket donates a percentage of sales made by shoppers who have linked their Randall’s card to our account. Your card can be linked to up to three charities of your choice. If you would like to participate, please fill out the ‘Good Neighbor Program’ form at the customer service booth. The form requires our charity number: 1298.

The German-Texan Heritage Society relies on volunteers to keep all its events and activities going. Please check our volunteering page to see how you can get involved.

If you’re in Austin, please join us every Thursday at noon for our Stammtisch at the German Free School. Tours of the building are available until 4:00 pm. (more)

The Library Committee has designated every Thursday as Used Book Sale Day at the German Free School building. Books will be for sale between 1 and 4 p.m. If Thursday is inconvenient, just call the GTHS office at (512) 482-0927 to arrange an appointment to browse our bookshelves. The books are mostly sold by donation (some books may be priced) and all proceeds benefit the Trenckmann Memorial Library. Most of the books are in German, but some are in English. They include novels, poetry, books on history, politics, philosophy and gardening, cookbooks and materials for German teachers. Please join us and browse the shelves.