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	Texas German - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Texas German is a dialect of the German language that is spoken by descendants of German immigrants who settled in the Texas Hill Country region in the mid-19th century.
		German immigrants began arriving over a period of two years, quickly raising the population of the town to over 1,000.
		Most German Texans continued to speak German in their homes and communities, but were required to learn English when Texas education rules mandated English-only instruction during and after World War I.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Texas_German (251 words)

	The German Texans
		The ‘48ers, a scholarly, wealthy class of Germans, arrived in Texas amidst the German Revolutions of 1848.
		German Texans actively participated in politics, and by 1846 a German language version of Texas law was in place.
		Germans also were distinct from their neighbors because of their language and traditions.
	www.houstonculture.org /cr/germans.html (1301 words)

	German Texans
		Texans of German birth or descent have, since the mid-19th century, made up one of the largest ethnic groups in the state.
		Germans who chose Texas as a home were, in the migrations from 1830 to 1900, anything but a uniform group.
		German immigrants, attracted to colonial settlement in appreciable numbers and relatively isolated from others—the necessities for cultural preservation—maintained certain customs and most of the language.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /publications/texansoneandall/german.htm (673 words)

	LONE STAR & EAGLE
		Nevertheless, the story of German immigration to Texas remains an anomaly in the history of German immigration to the United States.
		He is credited with founding two cities: the first was the port-of-entry for German immigrants named Carlshafen, later called Indianola, and finally wiped off the map by a succession of hurricanes; in 1845 Prince Carl and a few hundred settlers founded New Braunfels as a station on the way to the Fisher-Miller land.
		The Goethe-Institut is a German organization for the promotion of international cultural cooperation and the study of German language abroad.
	www.humanities-interactive.org /texas/lonestar/lse_brochure.htm (1568 words)

	Texas Culture - Western European
		German farmers were the first to fence in their own land, an odd thing to their neighbors, before the introduction of barbed wire.
		Because the Germans came as a group--as a colony--they were concerned with community and established a number of cultural organizations: Agricultural associations, dancing and singing societies, drinking and shooting clubs.
		German Texans are the fourth largest ethnic group in the state.
	www.traveltex.com /tx_cul_we.asp?SN=1118472&LS=0 (4395 words)

	German Texan Families
		As I got to know the German Texans as friends, students and colleagues, I was amazed: They were all rather conservative and traditional, even more so than Germans in Germany--or so it seemed to me. For many years, I puzzled over the nature of German-Texan communities.
		German Seed in Texas Soil (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1966), that in many areas of Germany from which the Texas settlers came, operational farm units with wholly contiguous lands were not common.
		Thus, German Texans are conserving one of the finest German traditions: the family.
	humanities-interactive.org /texas/lonestar/german_texas_families.htm (2672 words)

	German Immigration to Texas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although there were a few Germans in Texas when the area was under Spanish and Mexican rule, the first permanent settlement of Germans was at Industry, in Austin County, established by Friedrich Ernst and Charles Fordtran in the early 1830s.
		Some of the names are German and some are English because some of these were places originally settled and named by Anglo-Americans from the United States but later settled by German immigrants and some of them were founded by Germans.
		German settlers of this period were not only the poor and deprived peasants, but also members of the craftsman, merchant and professional classes.
	www.hostville.com /hoelscher/gertex.htm (1189 words)

	Texas Germanic Heritage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Twenty-one of the ruling German princes also recognized the need to reduce the overpopulation of the Germanies, and to that end, they organized the "Mainzer Adelsverein," later shortened to "Adelsverein." In English, this became the "Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas," and it later became known as the German-Texas Immigration Company.
		Adolph Douai, an outspoken German of French Huguenot extraction, was a Free Thinker, an atheist, an abolitionist, and an admirer of Karl Marx' communist philosophies.
		About 20 Germans from Jefferson County served in the Confederate Army, including four Block brothers from Port Neches, even though their father was a Unionist who refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederacy.
	wtblock.com /wtblockjr/texas.htm (5001 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		The Germans were ambitious farmers and artisans who believed their futures were cramped by the social and economic system at home.
		As late as 1880 the population of San Antonio was one-third German.
		Germans created new ethnic islands as late as the 1920s, but they were peopled from other areas in Texas, particularly the German Belt.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/png2.html (2162 words)

	Chronology of Central European Colonization in Texas
		When these counties declared in open rebellion, the German cadre assembles for movement into Mexico and is ambushed by a massive Confederate force.
		German farmers begin to settle in the divided and plains of west Texas where water is now available, turning their farm operations into ranches.
		German farmers from the older colonies of eastern Texas move into the area around Rosenburg in Fort Bend County.
	www.angelfire.com /tx5/texasczech/Studies/Chronology.htm (1115 words)

	Texas Information Resources I: E. Social Sciences Page 1 - Texas State Library
		The in-print pamphlets include: The Afro-American Texans, The Belgian Texans, The French Texans, The German Texans, The Greek Texans, The Indian Texans and The Italian Texans, and The Jewish Texans.
		Germans and Texans: Commerce, Migration, and Culture in the Days of the Lone Star Republic.
		German immigrants to Texas during the Republic of Texas years (1836-1945) included farmers who helped to settle the Hill Country and merchants and other business people who were instrumental in the development of Houston and Galveston.
	www.tsl.state.tx.us /ld/pubs/txresources/socialsciences.html (3599 words)

	German Pilgrims (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The courts of the German princes, too, suffered badly under Napoleon, and in order to reestablish their elegance and extravagance, the rulers levied what was perhaps the heaviest taxation ever known.
		By the time of the liberal Revolts of 1848, many of the German elite classes - bankers, professors, and noblemen - ended up on the wrong side of the political fences, and among the German "Forty-Niners" who scurried off to Texas in 1849 were enough "grafs" (counts), princes, and barons to stock Buckingham Palace.
		Of the first German Pilgrims to Texas in 1845, however, only one in four survived the walk from Indianola to New Braunfels, and the reader can still find on microfilm the original account from which this story is based, taken from the memoirs of one of the German Pilgrims, who made that march.
	www.wtblock.com /wtblockjr/german.htm (1098 words)

	Selected Bibliography of German-American Titles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		German Roots--Texas Growth : Descendants of William Henry Treybig and Lena Marx.
		History of the German Element in Texas From 1820-1850, and Historical Sketches of the German Texas Singers' League and Houston Turnverein.
		German Culture in Texas : A Free Earth : Essays From the 1978 Southwest Symposium.
	www.cah.utexas.edu /guides/germanamericans.html (880 words)

	German American Corner: Civil War and Reconstruction, part 2
		German sacrifices were especially noteworthy and valuable in the border states of Missouri, Kentucky and Maryland, where much of the Union sentiment crystallized around German communities.
		To many of the 75,000 Germans living in southern states at the time of secession, mostly in Texas, New Orleans, Richmond and chariest on, the war posed a dilemma.
		German units were raised in several cities of the South and more than once faced Yankee Germans on the battlefield.
	www.germanheritage.com /Essays/1848/civil_war_part2.html (832 words)

	ITC's Tex-Kit Program
		AFRICAN AMERICAN TEXANS: Unfold the layers of the African-American experiences in Texas and learn of their historical and contemporary contributions.
		CHINESE TEXANS: Explore Chinese culture by using chopsticks, listening to the legend of the dragon, looking at Chinese writing in a Chinese-Language newspaper, and listening to Chinese music.
		GERMAN TEXANS: Hear the story of the German people who came to Texas in the 1800s.
	www.texancultures.utsa.edu /public/shopping/texkit.htm (1154 words)

	PBS: Accordion Dreams - Cultures Of Music And Dance
		At one time, German immigrants were the majority European ethnic population in Texas, but their presence has decreased throughout the years.
		With the accordion as their central instrument in their music, the German Texans had a significant musical influence on the Tejano communities who incorporated both their dancing and musical styles into their own cultures.
		Today, visiting winter Texans from northern states where polka dancing is still popular make up the majority of the crowd at local German dances.
	www.pbs.org /accordiondreams/cultures (1130 words)

	The Winedale Story - The Germans
		German colonization in Texas began before Texas independence, with the efforts of Friedrich Ernst in nearby Industry and the later work of the German Emigration Company based at Nassau Farm, next to present-day Winedale.
		After 1836, hundreds of German families bought farmland in the Fayette County area and established Lutheran churches, educational institutions, and social clubs.
		In the 1840s, German noblemen formed the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas (Verein zum Schutz deutscher Einwanderer in Texas).
	www.cah.utexas.edu /exhibits/WinedaleStory/green5.html (802 words)

	Syllabus for German Immigrant Culture in America: Course Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		GER 3500 is intended to serve as an introduction to German-American Studies, which can be defined as the scholarly study of the history, language, literature, and culture of the German element of the Americas.
		Since German-American Studies is an interdisciplinary field, the course should be of interest to students concentrating in such diverse areas as languages and linguistics, history, anthropology, sociology, and ethnic studies.
		German place names and family names in the U.S. * The German-Americans in Four Wars: The War of Independence, the Civil War, World War I, and World War II.
	www.ulib.iupui.edu /kade/merrill/courseinfo.html (835 words)

	The Czech Texans
		They tended to live around German settlements since they were familiar with the language and lifestyle.
		Texan Czech music has evolved with influences from jazz, country and swing, creating a unique Texan style.
		Students were taught in only Czech and German until 1870 when a school in the city of Praha began teaching classes in Czech and English.
	www.houstonculture.org /cr/czechs.html (626 words)

	Bibliography On German Texans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Germans in Texas: A Study in Immigration Austin: Jenkins, 1910, 1974.
		German Culture in Texas: A Free Earth; Essays from the 1978 Symposium.
		History of the German Element in Texas from 1820-1850 and Historical Sketches of the German Singers' League and Houston Turnverein from 1853-1913.
	www.hostville.com /hoelscher/readlst.htm (1058 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online:
		Two years later German musical soirées were held at Kessler's Arcade in Houston, and in 1840 Emil Heerbrugger gave recitals on violin, horn, and guitar, with piano accompaniment, at the Capitol.
		Musical instruments among the Germans in early Texas were often of high quality: Heinrich Backofen, son of a prominent Darmstadt clarinet maker, brought "a whole chest" of instruments with him to Bettina in 1847.
		Bands ranged from a single fiddler playing for dances in the 1840s to full concert ensembles by the 1880s and were often connected with the conductor's teaching activities, either in school or private studio.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/GG/xbg1.html (936 words)

	Department of Modern Languages, SWT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Students who begin German 1410 toward General Studies requirements must also complete 1420.
		(3-0) An examination of German culture and life designed to provide a background for a better understanding of Germany and the Germans, encompassing a historical survey of the development of German culture, and the forces that shaped modern Germany, and a survey of contemporary German life and culture.
		(3-0) An examination of German texts of the Southwest with an emphasis upon Texas, designed to provide a better understanding of cultural diversity in the region.
	www.modlang.txstate.edu /german.htm (410 words)

	Reference Bibliography and Notes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The general outline for this Section came from John L. Davis, Texans One and All (The University of Texas Institute of Texan Culture at San Antonio, 1998) All of the preliminary information, names and events regarding the varying cultural groups who settled the state is a reassembly of the basic information found in that book.
		German Texans : Admiral Nimitz; LEET ADMIRAL CHESTER WILLIAM NIMITZ Department of the Navy, Naval Historical Center (http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq36-4.htm).
		Texans One and All by John L. Davis - This book was published by the Institute of Texan Cultures and records in detail the cultural groups who came as immigrants to Texas.
	www.texas-our-texas.com /BibRef1.html (4143 words)

	history book search page in fredericksburg texas
		German Pioneers in Texas This book, first compiled and published in 1925 by Don Biggers, is a great source of early local Fredericksburg and Gillespie County History.
		Texas and Texans in the Civil War This work by well know Texas Civil War scholar Ralph Wooster, is a great summary of military and non military subjects relating to Texas's role in the Civil War.
		Part of a 5 volume set published by the Institute of Texan Cultures, explores the social and cultural contributions made by the Native American societies that were in existence at the time that Texas was settled by Europeans.
	www.pioneermuseum.com /hisbookserch.htm (1969 words)

	CULT GRPS P 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Native American Texans - Their arrows are broken and their springs are dried up..Their council fires have long since gone out on the shores and their war cry is fast dying away..They will live only in the songs and chronicles of their exterminators.
		They built Mexican-style wattle and daub and brush structures called "jacales" on the outskirts of Fort Clark along the Los Moras Creek and although the scouts were usually outnumbered five to one in most of their encounters with Indians, there was not one scout killed or seriously wounded over a period of eight years.
		The aim of the society was to create a new German presence in Texas and to establish a market for German industry while at the same time developing German maritime commerce.
	www.texas-our-texas.com /Cultgrps2.html (9729 words)

	German Americans in Texas: Resources at the VC/UHV Library
		History of the German Element in Texas from 1820-1850, and Historical Sketches of the German Texas Singers’ League and Houston Turnverein From 1853-1913/ by Tiling, Moritz Philip Georg.
		This is an introductory text on a popular level to supplement the official history of Texas.Â The emphasis is on the German contribution to the formation of the state of Texas.
		This study focuses on the city of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County, Texas, from 1828 to 1924.Â The supportive material includes vital statistics, church history, and lists of office-holders of Gillespie County.Â Heavy reliance was made on personal interviews in the compilation of the material.
	vrhc.uhv.edu /Bibliographies/gamericans2.cfm (972 words)

	Rouladen (German Beef Rolls)
		New Braunfels was settled by German immigrants recruited from all over Germany and brought to Texas under the auspices of the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas, a corporation chartered by the Duchy of Nassau.
		The stockholders were all members of the German Nobility.
		This German dish is onions with a sliced of beef rolled around them and then cooked.
	www.thomhackett.com /Recipes/rouladen.htm (334 words)

	Bibliography
		A number of articles about German settlement in Texas that appeared in Ira Kennedy’s late and lamented excellent Hill Country historical publication, Enchanted Rock Magazine, further contradicted the source books and, sometimes, each other as well.
		The reports are translated in total in A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration to Texas, 1844-1847, by Chester W. and Ethel Geue.
		The German Texans, from the series, The Texians and the Texans, The University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
	www.hal-pc.org /~dcrane/txgenweb/bibliography.htm (569 words)

	McClain
		M.A., German, University of Texas at Austin 1970
		German Lyric Poetry, specifically Hölderlin’s poetic structures, the German Short Story, German-Texan Heritage and the Fascination of Germans with the Llano Estacado.
		McClain is the recipient of the Lucius Clay Medal (2001) for outstanding work in the field of German-American relations and the German Government’s Bundesverdienstkreuz for her service in promoting German Studies in the United States (2002).
	www.languages.ttu.edu /german/mcclain.htm (137 words)

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